I've written a few articles on poker tells for some third-party sites recently that I'm pretty proud of. Here's a synopsis and link to these articles. A Theory About Early-Hand Ostentatious Behavior: This is a two-parter I wrote for PokerNews; the link takes you to the first one, and here's the second part. Basically, these are based around the idea that players with strong hands, early in a ...
My Experience as a Contestant on the TV Show PokerStars’ The Big Game
This is a guest blog post written by Ken Hrankowski, who appeared as the amateur guest player during a few episodes of the TV show Pokerstars’ The Big Game. This post recounts his experience getting onto the show and what it was like playing with big-name players like Phil Hellmuth, Tony G, and Daniel Negreanu. I started playing poker after the “Moneymaker Effect,” as they called it. I found it ...
Talking to John Wood, mental game coach
John Wood recently reached out to me to do a short interview for a site called PokerHeadrush. You can read the interview here. Things we discussed included: the general usefulness of live reads, the importance of the mental game in poker, and the poker scene in Portland. John is a general mental/life coach who also coaches poker players. He's worked with poker players Alex Fitzgerald and Chris ...
Poker Is Dead (brought to you by Legacy Headstones of Ohio)
I get a lot of weird offers from random companies who want to pay me to put up ads or to do "link exchanges" (this is when you put each other's links on your sites, in order to help search engine results). Mostly I get these emails from shady gambling sites who are just trying to ride the coat-tails of more successful sites by getting a link from them. I pretty much ignore all of them. But I ...
Molly’s Game: An Interesting Glimpse Into Private, High-Stakes Poker Games
(Full disclosure: I received a review copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a review. I was actually planning on reading it and reviewing it anyway, though, so I took them up on the offer.) Molly’s Game is the tale of Molly Bloom and the super high-stakes private poker games she ran for a few years. These games featured celebrities, billionaire businessmen, rich heirs, famous ...
Free Poker Tells Videos
Update: In June of 2015 I released a poker tells video series, available here: www.readingpokertells.video. The series currently consists of 16 videos and I will be adding more in future. Click on the site link above to watch a trailer for the video. You can even buy the videos individually. Right now, my Reading Poker Tells YouTube channel has 10 free instructional videos focused on different ...
Well-known poker players and celebrities featured in Verbal Poker Tells book
During research for writing the book Verbal Poker Tells, I watched and took notes on around 100 hours of poker footage, with a focus on verbal behavior. Poker footage I watched included: the WSOP Main Events, Poker After Dark, High Stakes Poker, European Poker Tour events, PokerStars' The Big Game, and the Heartland Poker Tour. In the book, I used verbatim transcriptions of interesting ...
Poker pro Davidi Kitai talks about poker tells
In a PokerNews interview of respected Belgian poker pro Davidi Kitai, poker journalist Remko Rinkema conducts a short interview of Kitai on the subject of poker tells. If you're not familiar with him, here is Kitai's Wikipedia page. Here’s a quick synopsis of the few points Kitai makes in the interview: ...
Poker tells at a Chicago poker tournament
This past weekend I went to a Windy City Poker charity tournament in Chicago. I played a couple interesting hands that featured a good amount of reliable poker tells, which I’ll share below. The tournament was a $1,000 buy-in one; it got about 50 players. It had one featured table, with RFID sensors and camera coverage, that switched players once every hour. The episodes didn’t stream live but ...
What Scientists Have Learned From Studying Poker Players
The following article was written by Dr. Jaclynn Moskow. It's an interesting look at some psychology studies that have involved poker and poker players. It was originally published on Cardplayer.com. Jaclynn has given me permission to post it on my site, which I am honored to do. Jaclynn is a mid to high-stakes cash game specialist who lives in South Florida. She's also adjunct facility at ...