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Message: [QUOTE="thepokerkid123, post: 1525478, member: 58945"] Yeah, good point. There are some blatantly obvious habbits that we can let slip. A few of mine: When I first started using a card protector I hated putting it on top of my cards and then taking it off just to fold around 80% of the time and consequently spent about a dozen sessions putting a chip on my cards only if I wasn't expecting to fold. I randomised it a little by leaving the chip until the last second some of the time and putting it on and folding once in a while, but it was still pretty bad. I was also a bit rusty after spending most of the early part of this year playing online and for a few sessions was verbalising bets with air and just counting them out when I had a hand. For a long time, despite being aware of it I'd fall into the habbit of folding my arms when playing tight (because you're folding and doing nothing so much it's easy to fall into this when you're a nit) and having my hands sitting on the felt when I was playing loose (because they're always doing something). This one actually applies pretty universally, imo, at least with people who aren't paying much attention and is a good guesstimate of your opponents when you first sit down. FWIW, the best defence against giving these off is to randomise them. Be aware of them and give off false signals as often as you give off useful information, it makes reading you much harder. One of the more obvious signs that someone is doing this (note that it's pretty much only decent regs who'll give of false info) is deep breathing. Typically rapid breathing means a hand and held breath means a bluff, this one is courtesy of Mike Caro's book of tells and like most of them is so often manipulated that it's not reliable (maybe against the guy who's never played before, but he's the only one I'd use this against on the first time I see him do it), but that someone takes the effort to fake this will tell you that they're probably giving off other fake tells too. And no, you don't naturally accidentally do this tell the other way around, that goes against instinct. Once I see someone is giving off false info I'm pretty much done with trying to pick up tells on them, I'll only look for stuff that I think is more advanced than they're likely to be aware of but that cuts down (a lot) on the frequency of actually seeing something. So yeah, giving off false tells is a pretty good defence if you're playing against regs who aren't brain dead (and let's face it, even amongst regs they're the minority). [/QUOTE]

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