Developing online poker tells

Exploiting strong players
Strong poker players are always looking for weaker ones to exploit. Using common online poker tells is one method they use to identify these weaker players. This is actually something that you can exploit. If you’re able to disguise yourself as a typical fish by displaying some common online poker tells you can make a lot of money. The perfect setting is a table where everyone has above max buy-in. All the regular faces are battling it out amongst themselves while waiting for the easy money to join the table and be spread around.

Make crazy moves
When you’ve sat down you should make some crazy, and losing, plays. However, your aim is not to put everybody on tilt with your erratic actions; you aim is to develop a poker tell. This is easy to do in a live game. This poker tell could involve the way you handle your chips or cards, or the way you speak, breath, or even stare. You are going to display this tell whenever you bluff at a pot, or whenever you are willing to fold to a raise. There are some common online poker tells in online poker, the size of your bet being a significant one. Some players only bet pot when they are bluffing, other's bet very close to half pot when bluffing and full pot when they think they are winning. In order to enhance this common online poker tell you should combine your betting with table talk and response time. Just make sure everybody at the tables knows (or think they know) exactly what you are doing.

Time to strike back
When someone has picked up on your “tell” you’re in a perfect position to strike back and make a lot of money. Keep up the looser act for a while by grumbling or writing about how everything is unfair and so on. Then keep playing the same game but without the bluffs. Your opponents will accept your slowdown based on your dialogue. When you next hit a big hand, go into it hard and display all the online poker tells you developed. If luck is with you, two players will have decent hands and fight for your chip stack. Both these players will be able to justify over betting because they will 'know' that your money is just dead money in the pot, and a reward for the winner of the veritable side pot. You on the other hand will be looking at tripling up and hopefully throwing the whole table into a spin when they find out the truth.

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