Tag Archives: hole cards

Length of time looking at hole cards: a really useful heads-up poker tell

Link to a post where I talk about a very useful heads up poker tell: the length of time a player initially looks at their hole cards.

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Watching the players directly to your left

Some thoughts on watching the players directly to your left. Not only can you get some last-minute tells from them regarding their actions, they are the players who pose the biggest threats to you.

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Pre-flop looking-at-hole-cards tell

Talking about a specific tell I saw in a $5-10 NLHE game that involved how much a player looked at his hole cards.

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Hole card tells in Guts games and 5-Card Draw

Some thoughts on applying the staring-at-hole-cards-means-weakness tell to guts-style and 5-card-draw games.

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Staring at hole cards usually means a weak hand

Players who stare for a while the first time they look at their hole cards are more likely to have weak cards. Relatedly, though less common and useful, players who quickly look away from hole cards are more likely to have strong cards.

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