Christopher Dillingham's "Dissecting Pinocchio" is a good book on lie detection. Dillingham is a police officer who's well-versed in interrogations, and you can tell from his stories that he has a lot of experience to back up his observations. He also talks about studies that have been done about lie detection. The best thing about this book is the author's realism about lie detection. There ...
Archives for May 2012
Review of Philip Newall’s The Intelligent Poker Player
In order to review Philip Newall’s book The Intelligent Poker Player in an accurate and practical way, I must reveal that I am very far from being a great limit poker player. (I could extrapolate to no-limit poker, but let me humble myself a little bit at a time.) I want to be honest about the weaknesses in my game so that players who are decent but not great at limit poker (people like myself) ...
I’m interviewed on Badugi Allstars poker podcast
The boys at Badugi Allstars interviewed me on their poker podcast. Talk included: Why I wrote the book What makes my book different from other poker tells books The importance of correlating tells with specific situations Some discussion on the common tell of defensive chip handling Dissing Joe Navarro and Mike Caro (respectfully) Penis-shaped doughnuts (it's a Portland, Oregon ...
More poker tells in Rounders (besides KGB’s Oreo)
Hi, I'm Zach Elwood, the author of the book Verbal Poker Tells (amongst other poker tells projects). This is my blog. My email acquaintance Michael Blinder recently wrote to point out something very awesome in the movie Rounders. Both Teddy KGB and Mike McDermott (Matt Damon’s character) exhibit a few poker tells besides the infamous Oreo cookie one. Both of them exhibit a kind of poker tell I ...