Interesting Live Tell Hand..

[Cf]

The Idea that you can look at someone you've never seen play before and instantly know the strength of their holding based on a "live tell" is a theory born entirely out of the movies IMO

You should defo look for stuff like this, the chances are it is a tell, but you need to analsye it in far greater detail than one individual hand

as a good example of this, I have this wierd thing where I hate having odd number's of £25 chips. so in my reg game if I have £175 in pony's and want to bet £60. I'll use 1x £25 chip and 7x £5 chips. is this a tell?

sometimes i do this when I am have a strong hand, but dunno for sure if I'll win (turn FD maybe, or a 1p hand im bet folding) sometimes I do this when I know I have no chance to win if called (not the end of the world, at least my stackof pony's is now even) and sometimes I forget entirely about this cos I am concentrating, some times I dont care, sometimes I just wanna bet with lots of chips cos it looks cool and sometimes I have loads of ponys (sick brag) and dont know if the stack is even or not and cant count em in the middle of the hand.

In a similar fashion I will often bet using chips that keep my stacks in neat piles. eg, if I have two stacks of 100 chips and I want to bet 200 then I'll often bet using a 500 chip. But if I had a couple of spare 100 chips I'd use them instead. Nothing to read into here.

[The Camel]

I'm 100% certain it was a tell, he was a nice kid but terribly nervous throughout.

I mean, an 18 year old playing his first ever live tournament in THE WORLD MFKING SERIES OF POKER!

He'd have to be a pretty cool cookie not to be nervous.

[bobAlike]

I'm 100% certain it was a tell, he was a nice kid but terribly nervous throughout.

I mean, an 18 year old playing his first ever live tournament in THE WORLD MFKING SERIES OF POKER!

He'd have to be a pretty cool cookie not to be nervous.

The trouble with tells is that they can go either way. Are you saying it was a tell in that he was not confident?

[SuuPRlim]

I'm 100% certain it was a tell, he was a nice kid but terribly nervous throughout.

I mean, an 18 year old playing his first ever live tournament in THE WORLD MFKING SERIES OF POKER!

He'd have to be a pretty cool cookie not to be nervous.

The trouble with tells is that they can go either way. Are you saying it was a tell in that he was not confident?

A tell is pointless if you don't knwo what it means, its defo something worth noting, and seeing if you can turn it into a solid read at a later point

[Rupert]

weak=strong so fold i guess

[The Camel]

Player A agonised and called..

Player B turned over QQ for a rivered set.

Karabiner and Rupert are too good.

[bobAlike]

Player A agonised and called..

Player B turned over QQ for a rivered set.

Karabiner and Rupert are too good.

I may be reading to much into this and probs making a fool of myself but I think I could find a fold here.
If this is his first live tourney how many poker books has he just read which tell him that people throw big denomination chips in when they're strong and lower denomination when they're weak. I think he's hit the flop and bet confidently with the 500's by the time the river has hit he's remembered what the books say about this type of tell and then decided to under rep his hand and throw out the lower denom chips.

Ultimately all tells mean different things for different players and until you can observe these players for any length of time it's just a stab in the dark. Unless of course your name is Cal lightman.

Ahem, I feel left out.

[The Camel]

Player A agonised and called..

Player B turned over QQ for a rivered set.

Karabiner and Rupert are too good.

I may be reading to much into this and probs making a fool of myself but I think I could find a fold here.
If this is his first live tourney how many poker books has he just read which tell him that people throw big denomination chips in when they're strong and lower denomination when they're weak. I think he's hit the flop and bet confidently with the 500's by the time the river has hit he's remembered what the books say about this type of tell and then decided to under rep his hand and throw out the lower denom chips.

Ultimately all tells mean different things for different players and until you can observe these players for any length of time it's just a stab in the dark. Unless of course your name is Cal lightman.

Ahem, I feel left out.

Sorry!

[DMorgan]

Ahem, I feel left out.

+1

When he uses the little chips, that'd make me less likely to call rather than more so.

[SuuPRlim]

strong could easily have = strong though!

[GarethW]

so whats the bottom line to this tell.

Is he using the smaller chips to make the pot look more attractive inviting a call?

[outragous76]

Fwiw weak= strong only applies when players do things consciously.

[doubleup]

Fwiw weak= strong only applies when players do things consciously.

yes I think this was more of a "how much to me?" tell.  i.e. in the excitement of hitting his card, he forgot how he bet previously.