Post your favorite live tells here

[PokerBob]

Tonight's Canterbury 15/30 session got me thinking about some of the hilarious tells that one can experience while playing live poker. I have many that I enjoy, but for the purposes of this thread I will share one that I saw several times tonight from the same jackass. It is the "I-am-trying-to-pass-a-kindey-stone" face as they 4bet the river with the stone nuts. What's one of yours?

[Onaflag]

It's as old as Caro's book, probably older, but the shaking hands thing always tells me what I need to know. I'm not much of a "tells" player, but hands have a way of letting out one's most inner secrets. Always watch the hands.

Onaflag.............

[thx2pokr]

One of mine is when the BB or SB stares at his hole cards for a while then places a chip on them = usually indicating weakness, and a possible 211 in progress to follow, if i am in position.

[jason_t]

Friday night at Commerce 20/40 I open UTG with KK and it gets folded to an aggressive CO who 3-bets, the BB comes along and I cap that [censored]. The flop comes 8-high. The BB checks, I bet, the CO raises, the BB folds, I 3-bet and the CO now says "oh, I see you're just showing off for your friends" and calls. That was his tell that let me know he had 88 or AA. I took the cheap line to showdown and got shown AA.

[shant]

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Friday night at Commerce 20/40 I open UTG with KK and it gets folded to an aggressive CO who 3-bets, the BB comes along and I cap that [censored]. The flop comes 8-high. The BB checks, I bet, the CO raises, the BB folds, I 3-bet and the CO now says "oh, I see you're just showing off for your friends" and calls. That was his tell that let me know he had 88 or AA. I took the cheap line to showdown and got shown AA.

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Half the time this means AA/88, other half it means he really hates that you're pretty.

[tom10167]

I love when kids are wearing sunglasses and peek back at their holecards when the board comes 2flush.

The grimacing, I see that more than ANYTHING.

[PokerFink]

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The grimacing, I see that more than ANYTHING.

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This is good because it's reliable. Shaking hands can mean a monster or a bluff, but if the fish grimaces when the river card hits, he wiffed it. It has to be slight and quick though. If he lets out a big sigh or obviously shakes his head, it could easily be a reverse tell. But a slight, quick pursing in of the lips is a good sign he missed.

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When someone moves all in in NL hold em, and they leave their hands on top of there cards, as if they are ready to flip them over, is a very reliable tell that someone is bluffing.

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I do this when I have a monster that I know is getting called. I'm ready to flip because I can't wait to show the winner. Of course my left hand protects my cards 95% of the time anyway.

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The "pulse" - The classic jugular pulse. Stone cold bluff.

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Just like shaking hands, this is fairly reliable but can go either way. I look for people who have an obvious big pulse, but I always verify bluff/monster with a showdown before I try to use it against them. I would say this is less reliable than hand shaking.

[stinkypete]

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Friday night at Commerce 20/40 I open UTG with KK and it gets folded to an aggressive CO who 3-bets, the BB comes along and I cap that [censored]. The flop comes 8-high. The BB checks, I bet, the CO raises, the BB folds, I 3-bet and the CO now says "oh, I see you're just showing off for your friends" and calls. That was his tell that let me know he had 88 or AA. I took the cheap line to showdown and got shown AA.

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open-fold turn

edit: face up of course
edit2: say "no, now i'm showing off"

[bernie]

Bet speed.

By far the easiest to use.

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[FatalError]

The "lean in and stare at the 3rd spade that came off then look away disinterested, sigh, and check softly"