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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 928103, member: 23910"]
Interesting points - I actually find Gus changes his table behaviour a lot, so the tells on him are only reliable for a short period of time.  There was one game where he kept exhibiting the "happy feet" tell every time he had a good hand, others it was absent.  Other games, the head tilting is replaced by rapid blinking when he's weak.
 
Hoyt is certainly harder to read than some, and I suspect he'd be much harder to read in person where you're seeing a lot less of his cards.
 
I actually found a major tell on him in one of the WPT Season 2 episodes (the one where it got to three-handed between him, Gus and Negreanu, funnily enough).  Knowing what he was holding definitely helped, because you could say [I]"On those six hands he's bluffing, and he did XYZ in all of them"[/I].  If you were actually at the table though, only one or two of those hands got shown down, so it's harder to establish the pattern.
 
I think inconsistency is his problem - he changes where he holds his hands, his position in his chair, etc.  That's probably OK if they're random, or designed to throw your opponents off, but in Hoyt's case it seemed those changes are often related to the strength of his hand.  I haven't seen a lot of him in televised games since to judge whether the tells are still accurate or not, I'd be surprised if he hasn't picked up on them and adjusted though.
 
Anywho, who else do you think are the [B]hardest[/B] players to read, and why?  What can we learn from them to start concealing our own tells?
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