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Message: [QUOTE="Grossberger, post: 2274413, member: 55797"] 98% of the time I wait til it's my turn to look at my cards. The other 2% is usually because I have to use the restroom or need to get something to drink. I am a big believer in tells, so many times I have picked up on something and just knew they had the hand or not. I can almost gurantee that if your playing live 99.9% of the time there is not someone giving you "false" tells, most people just don't think about it that much and in the same way I don't think 99% of the people pay attention to other peoples tells. I have tried to give off false tells many times but other players just don't know enough to know its a tell. I have found if you wait to look at your cards and observe the people behind you, you can use that information to your advantage, because most times if they look at their cards right away you can tell if they are going to play their hand or not. With this information if you have 5 people to act behind you and you notice 4 of them are ready to fold their hand you may be able to raise in this position because your pretty sure you only have 1 player to act behind you not 5, which is like being on the button preflop. Here are some examples that I have picked up while playing that have helped me win some big pots in both cash and tournaments. 1. In a tournament I'm in the cutoff with 44 I raise 2.5x player on button looks at his cards and then immediatly looks at my chip stack, then reraises 3x my bet. I have seen him do this before and its always a big Ace, so I call flop comes K 9 2 rainbow, I check and he bets 1/2 pot I call hoping to hit on the turn, turn comes 2, I check he checks, now he usually would not check if he had a K here so I'm pretty sure I have the best hand right now. The river comes another K I bet out 1/2 pot bet and he says raise, and proceeds to pull off his stack t9500 as he goes to put it in he balks and adds another t4000 to it then puts in the raise. Now I stopped to think why would he balk and add more chips? I came to the conclusion that he didn't think the 9500 was enough to get me to fold because he didn't have the hand, I called and wait for him to roll over AQ and I roll over the 44 to win the pot. 2 things I observed on that hand allowed me to win a big pot. 2. This one is one of the times I wished I didn't pay attention. Playing in a tournament, I'm in Hijack with Q 10 suited 3 limpers ahead and I see the players behind me are all ready to fold so I limp. 4 players to the flop of Q 9 10. First player checks and next player goes all in next player tanks and folds now I'm paying attention to a newer player I have never played with before and she has put aside a call and is adding to it for a raise, seeing this I think she flopped the straight or a set, so I reluctantly fold my top 2. She says raise and we were like its just you 2 he doesn't have any more chips so you just call. She rolls over.......ready for this AK all she has is over pair and gut shot and bricks turn and river and all in stays in with 77. Had I not seen her grabbing for a raise I would have called and taken down a big pot, now I have played with her before and know more of how she plays, and can take chips from her at will. [/QUOTE]

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