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 Originally Posted by JKDS
Dear Zach:
Whats the basic idea behind using tells? Do you treat it as just one of very many interchangeable different tools for narrowing an opponents range, or is it more accurate to say that tells provide a mountain of an advantage to one using them properly?
Follow up: Who do you think is the best player at using an analyzing poker tells?
I say in the book that tells are much less important than fundamental strategy (by which I mean every consideration you might make in poker aside from physical tells). I say that reading tells well can add between 10% to 30% to your winrate, assuming you're a winning player already. So they are just a tool to use in certain spots against players who have reliable tells; they can help you narrow ranges, yes. For some players they can be very effective; for some players, barely effective; for some players, they won't be effective at all.
I have no idea who the best is at reading tells. I'm sure Phil Ivey is very good. I also think Phil Hellmuth is probably very good at reading weak players; this would account for his big MTT wins versus mostly very unskilled opponents, despite being perceived as fundamentally weak when playing against really tough competition.
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