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Guy Laliberte’s poker tells, Part 3: bet timing and leaning back in the chair

Examining Guy Laliberte’s poker tells, this post looks at a bet-timing imbalance and a tendency Guy seems to have of leaning back in his chair following a bluff.

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Repetitive body movements and stillness

Someone emailed me a question about “repetitive behavior”, and the sudden stopping of repetitive behavior, and what it means. In general, if someone stops exhibiting a repetitive movement, it will mean they are more anxious than normal.

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2011 WSOP: Martin Staszko’s (Possible) Poker Tells

An analysis of Martin Staszko’s physical behavior in his heads-up confrontation with Pius Heinz at the 2011 WSOP. Mainly, I talk about the relative amount of relaxation and muscle movement in Staszko’s mouth and face when he had a good hand compared to when he had a vulnerable hand.

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Freeze-up bluff tell in $30-60 Limit Hold’em hand

An interesting limit hand where I call a guy down pretty light based on a stillness-based tell he has when he’s bluffing.

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Movement and stillness when bluffing

Thoughts on a weird player who behaved the opposite of most people; this player got all antsy and moved around a lot when he was bluffing. Whereas when he had a real hand, he would be more still. This is the opposite of most people, so it got me thinking that maybe there’s certain people who do this…

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