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Download Your Reading Poker Tells Sample Chapter

You can download your Free Reading Poker Tells sample chapter here: Reading Poker Tells Sample Chapter

Free 5-Part Verbal Poker Tells Course

Over the next few days, I’ll be sending you lessons, articles, and courses to help you improve your understanding of poker tells and poker behavior as part of a free 4-day course on Verbal Poker Tells

My goal for this course is to provide you with new techniques and approaches for understanding the ‘soft skills’ of poker and the psychological side of the game, while keeping everything as actionable and succinct as possible.

You’ll be receiving five lessons from me aimed at helping you improve your understanding of verbal poker behavior — i.e., verbal poker tells.

Very few people invest the time into reading and studying the theory behind poker tells or developing the skills to be able to effectively study and analyze poker tells at the poker table.

Over the next few days, I’m going to teach you how to understand a few specific verbal poker behaviors. In the past, you may have noticed these behaviors and not had a clear method of categorizing them or remembering them. Hopefully, this course will help you, and I hope you’ll let me know if it does.

Are you ready to get started? Here are the emails you’ll be receiving:

  • Day 1 (Today): Introduction, and What It Means When A Player Says He Has A Weak Hand
  • Day 2: Defensive Statements
  • Day 3: Misdirections
  • Day 4: Uncertainty and Hesitation
  • Day 5: Responses to “Will You Show If I Fold?”

By the end of this course, you’ll have learned and understand:

  • A few of the main types of verbal poker tells and when to look for each one during a hand.
  • How to gain practical information from verbal poker tells and how to understand what a tell reveals about a player’s hand strength.
  • When to incorporate reading verbal poker tells into your game and the type of players that Verbal Poker tells works best when playing against.

My goal is to make this week’s material worth more than your average poker book. If I’m ever not doing that, please unsubscribe.

Keep your eyes open for today’s first lesson “Verbal Poker Tells from the WSOP.” It’ll be in your inbox in just a few minutes…

Thanks,

— Zachary Elwood

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Reviews/Testimonials

“Reading Poker Tells is one of the most helpful poker books I’ve read.”
           - Andrew Brokos, poker pro, co-host of Thinking Poker Podcast

“I'm a fan of Mr. Caro. I think his book moved human understanding forward. But I think that this is likely to prove as big a step forward, or more so.”
           - Thomas Foster, poker player
Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training
2014-07-15T17:40:38-07:00
“Reading Poker Tells is one of the most helpful poker books I’ve read.”            - Andrew Brokos, poker pro, co-host of Thinking Poker Podcast “I'm a fan of Mr. Caro. I think his book moved human understanding forward. But I think that this is likely to prove as big a step forward, or more so.”            - Thomas Foster, poker player
https://www.readingpokertells.com/testimonials/3233/

"What I loved about your book is the concept that everything is situation-dependent. Your classification of the situations was very valuable."
           - Amir Lehavot, pro player, 3rd place in 2013 WSOP ME

"Anyone who is a fan of Caro's book will find this 21st century update easier to read and understand, as well as far more useful."
           - Paul Gordon, semi-pro player
Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training
2014-07-15T17:39:55-07:00
"What I loved about your book is the concept that everything is situation-dependent. Your classification of the situations was very valuable."            - Amir Lehavot, pro player, 3rd place in 2013 WSOP ME "Anyone who is a fan of Caro's book will find this 21st century update easier to read and understand, as well as far more useful."            - Paul Gordon, semi-pro player
https://www.readingpokertells.com/testimonials/3232/

“Elwood's Reading Poker Tells is clearly the best book on this aspect of live play.”
              - Mason Malmuth, poker author, co-owner of TwoPlusTwo

“Good info. I sincerely hope this book does not become popular.”
              - Kathy Liebert, poker pro
Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training
2014-07-17T10:55:19-07:00
“Elwood's Reading Poker Tells is clearly the best book on this aspect of live play.”               - Mason Malmuth, poker author, co-owner of TwoPlusTwo “Good info. I sincerely hope this book does not become popular.”               - Kathy Liebert, poker pro
https://www.readingpokertells.com/testimonials/3291/

“I took your book with me to the WSOP and it definitely helped my game. I found myself watching and exploiting other players even more than usual. I really like the organization and delivery of your book. Bravo.”
           - Tommy Angelo, poker pro and author
Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training
2014-07-17T10:57:38-07:00
“I took your book with me to the WSOP and it definitely helped my game. I found myself watching and exploiting other players even more than usual. I really like the organization and delivery of your book. Bravo.”            - Tommy Angelo, poker pro and author
https://www.readingpokertells.com/testimonials/3293/

“Elwood has established himself as an authority on poker tells. His book is the current gold standard.”
           - Ed Miller, pro player, poker author

“As a serious tourney/cash game player, the lessons from Reading Poker Tells have improved my game exponentially.”
           - Cody Chandler, poker player
Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training
2014-07-07T14:41:01-07:00
“Elwood has established himself as an authority on poker tells. His book is the current gold standard.”            - Ed Miller, pro player, poker author “As a serious tourney/cash game player, the lessons from Reading Poker Tells have improved my game exponentially.”            - Cody Chandler, poker player
https://www.readingpokertells.com/testimonials/3063/

“Reading Poker Tells is far and away the best book on live tells. I recommend it to everyone.”
           - Max Steinberg, pro player

“I played live and saw tells popping up everywhere. I started to almost feel sorry for some people who were just so obvious.”
           - Brian Bell, poker player
Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training
2014-07-07T14:40:38-07:00
“Reading Poker Tells is far and away the best book on live tells. I recommend it to everyone.”            - Max Steinberg, pro player “I played live and saw tells popping up everywhere. I started to almost feel sorry for some people who were just so obvious.”            - Brian Bell, poker player
https://www.readingpokertells.com/testimonials/3062/

"I'm constantly impressed with how the info from your books has provided me value time and time again at the poker table. I started playing poker professionally last summer, and I can say that your books have easily added a solid $10/hour to my winrate, if not more. Thanks for all the hard work you've put into your material."
          - Dan Podheiser, poker player
Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training
2017-05-10T19:07:04-07:00
"I'm constantly impressed with how the info from your books has provided me value time and time again at the poker table. I started playing poker professionally last summer, and I can say that your books have easily added a solid $10/hour to my winrate, if not more. Thanks for all the hard work you've put into your material."           - Dan Podheiser, poker player
https://www.readingpokertells.com/testimonials/4473/

“Interestingly enough, your book has made me a better doctor. I work with many nonverbal children with developmental disorders who can't just tell you what they want and how they feel. Sometimes facial expressions and other forms of body language are all you have to work with.”
           - James Miles, M.D.
Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training
2014-07-17T10:56:05-07:00
“Interestingly enough, your book has made me a better doctor. I work with many nonverbal children with developmental disorders who can't just tell you what they want and how they feel. Sometimes facial expressions and other forms of body language are all you have to work with.”            - James Miles, M.D.
https://www.readingpokertells.com/testimonials/3292/
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