I went to Vegas last week for a week, mainly for the poker tells seminar I was doing, but also to play some poker and do some promotional stuff for the book. (If you haven't heard about the poker tells presentation I'm doing, here's a PokerNews article talking about it: http://learn.pokernews.com/news/2014/06/poker-tells-seminar-at-wsop-makes-use-of-unique-behavioral-d-4355.htm.) The seminar ...
Poker tells seminar during WSOP this summer
I've been invited to be part of a poker seminar in Vegas this summer during the WSOP. My part of the presentation will be 2.5 hours about poker tells, using a lot of televised poker footage. The cost is $499 and the dates are June 14, July 5 and July 7. Here is the details page, where you can also see a video I made about my part of the seminar: www.floattheturn.com/seminar. You can get a $100 ...
A Live Tell in 2-7 Triple Draw
This following is a guest blog post from Los Angeles poker player Josh Hale. You can follow Josh Hale on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/red_stagg. The Los Angeles Poker Classic just concluded and with it, one of my favorite times of the year for poker. I count myself amongst the many people consider the LAPC to be one of the best tournament series of year (perhaps second only to the WSOP) ...
Drinking your own urine and playing poker
When it comes to poker, I have a very Eastern philosophy. Some people think that getting better at poker is all about studying hand histories and opponent’s “ranges” and things like that. That’s part of getting better, sure, but there’s only so far such dedicated, logical study can take you. Over the years I’ve experimented with transcendental meditation, hypnotherapy, yoga, asceticism, ...
Review of Ed Miller’s book Playing The Player
I wrote a book review of Ed Miller's 2012 book Playing the Player, which you can read here: https://www.readingpokertells.com/review-of-playing-the-player-by-ed-miller ...
Review of Playing the Player, by Ed Miller
I’ve been meaning to review Ed Miller’s poker book Playing the Player for a while. One of the main reasons I wanted to review it is that it’s recommended on Amazon as a similar purchase when people buy my book, apparently because people bought our two books together a lot. They probably are a good combination because they both deal with exploiting observable tendencies and patterns of predictable, ...
Poker trip to Los Angeles, observing verbal behavior
I spent a week in L.A. at the end of February, playing poker and appearing in a couple episodes of the live-streaming poker show Live at the Bike. I played primarily $5-5 and $5-10 NLHE cash games. I haven’t played much at all in the last few years, so it was an interesting and educational trip, getting back into playing all the time and seeing how people were playing at these stakes. I’d also ...
Played embarrassingly bad on Live At The Bike $5-10 NLHE
I played $1-3 PLO last Tuesday on Live At The Bike and then $5-10 NLHE last night. I got made fun of for my PLO play, which I didn't care about because I hadn't played PLO in six years and was never very good at it. Last night, though, I was embarrassed by my play. A bit of it was due to my anxiety and a bit of it was due to drinking a couple glasses of red wine on an empty stomach. I'd also ...
Excerpt from Verbal Poker Tells: General verbal behavioral tendencies
The following is an excerpt from my book-in-progress, which will be called Verbal Poker Tells. This is not the final version and is still being edited and is subject to change. Any comments and criticisms on these general ideas are very much appreciated. There is a lot of complexity in verbal poker behavior. Anyone who’s played a lot of poker knows there are many factors that can lead someone ...
Reading tells in Cards Against Humanity & Apples To Apples
Apples To Apples and Cards Against Humanity are similar games. Apples To Apples is a popular G-rated party game. Cards Against Humanity is like its R-rated cousin; exactly similar in play but with much darker, twisted content. These games are not seriously played and are usually just an excuse for the players to laugh at the humorous juxtaposition of ideas. Even though these games are not ...