Live Poker tells to watch for
I played a lot of poker on my vacation and I had been working out a tell for live games before I went, and tested it a bit in a couple games and a two day tourney. First the tell, then the logic.
The tell: when a player is betting, watch the chip combinations they use to call a bet. If they use a lot of the smaller chip demoninations to count up to the call amount, then they have a weak hand or are chasing. If they use the big chips, then they may have some strength.
The logic: if a player expects he may lose, then they tend to clean up the house a bit with their chip stack, putting out the smaller denominations as "giveaways" preserving the big denominations. A player expecting a win will not do this as a rule.
I observed this a few times and it paid off in a few hands where I was in the pot. Watch for it when you play and let me know what you think.
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...i played at our recent live event and i noticed most players raised with the lower denomination chips but when someone threw the biggies into the pot most folded....
...however in the later stages the lower denomination chips were replaced with equivelant value in big chips and the dross (the remainder being less then the lowest chip to be used ) was forfeited...
...so most bets then consisted of all the shrapnel...
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