Update: this has ended and results are at bottom of post. Starting tomorrow, September 26th, and going to October 31st, 2017, I'll be donating 50% of the revenue from all of the poker tells ebooks sold on this site or sold at readingpokertells.video to the charity Americares. After a little bit of research, it seems like Americares is a respected charity, and they are apparently doing a lot of ...
Live poker strategy recommendation
If you've followed my blog for a while or been on my email list for a while, you know that I rarely promote anyone else's poker content. But this is a poker book I thought would be useful for live poker players who are trying to improve, so here it is: James "SplitSuit" Sweeney is a professional poker coach and the co-creator of Red Chip Poker. His first book, Dynamic Full Ring Poker, is widely ...
WSOP Main Event verbal tell of strength
The hand in question occurred when the final table was 7-handed. The behavior is from Scott Blumstein, the eventual winner of the event. To see the hand history, see Hand #101 in this PokerNews article. Long story short: Blumstein had a turned full house and bet the river vs. Pollak. Pollak started talked and smiling and said, "Sick turn" and "What are you on, Scott? Speak!" Blumstein ...
The Sopranos: all the poker scenes
Here's a video compilation I made showing all the poker scenes from The Sopranos: ...
2017 WSOP $10K PLO winner talks about opponent behavior/tells
Tommy Le, winner of the 2017 WSOP $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event, talked about his opponent's behavior in a pivotal hand where he had a set of Kings and folded to a raise on the flop. I transcribed this hand from www.PokerGo.com, where you can subscribe month-to-month to watch poker events and footage, including WSOP events. Also thanks to poker player Skip Parker for sending me an email drawing my ...
WSOP prep: Some poker tells from the World Series of Poker
It's World Series of Poker time, and I know many people are making the trek to Vegas right now or very soon. I thought I'd throw together a few fun hands from the WSOP that feature some generally reliable poker tells. In this email, I've got the following hand histories. These are all taken from my new Exploiting Poker Tells book (ebook available here, paperback available on Amazon). Will ...
Email from reader about verbal clues in hand
This is an email I got from a reader and thought it was a good example of the kinds of verbal clues of attention/non-focus you can pick up in multi-way pots. Here's the email, with my response to him following: Hello, Here is a funny situation that happened a week ago in a local club where I play once a week. It’s a small stake cash game with a mix of experienced and newbie players and all ...
Talking with Marvin Karlins: Writer of Read ‘Em and Reap
Marvin Karlins has had a long career as a business professor, a consultant and trainer for airline companies, and a writer and cowriter of numerous books and articles, many related to gambling and/or psychology. In the poker world, his biggest claim to fame is that he was the author of the book Read 'Em and Reap, along with his co-writers Joe Navarro and Phil Hellmuth. I talked to Marvin ...
Free poker tells email courses
I've made quite a few free email courses on poker tells/behavior over the last few years. I figured it'd be nice if you could see them all in one place. Video Series email course This 3-part course includes a free 15-minute video on "defensive chip handling" from my Reading Poker Tells Video Series, and a couple other subjects. This is a good one to watch if you're curious about my video series ...
Trumped! memoir tells tale of Donald Trump’s Atlantic City past
I recently read the memoir Trumped! (Amazon link), which was released in 1991 by one of Trump’s highest Atlantic City casino executives, John R. O’Donnell. O’Donnell spent three years working under Trump, from 1987-1990. I thought putting a book review of this book on my poker blog would be fitting, because the book talks so much about gamblers and the casino strategies on how to lure them in. ...