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Message: [QUOTE="PhilGalfond, post: 4781735, member: 360431"] You're very good at the warm welcomes here at Cardschat. Thank you :) Honestly, the main thing I learned about live tells over the years are: 1) Most tells are player specific - not universal 2) Focusing on tells takes a lot of mental bandwidth. In games that aren't second nature to me, it's better if I focus fully on strategy than split my focus with tells. 3) It's extremely easy to believe you have a tell and be wrong. I'd say that on average, people who believe they have a tell on someone are wrong over 80% of the time - there is so much noise and randomness, and our brains try to find patterns where there are none. Tells do exist, though - you just have to be very careful that you're not making big adjustments to perceived tells until you are extremely confident and that you don't get thrown off your game by expending so much effort on reading your opponents. I know some top live players like to look at the way players put their chips in or hold their cards. I've had no success with that. I prefer to focus on body language and movement, but as I said, there are very few one-size-fits-all tells (in my opinion). Honestly, the way that I play, it would probably be better if I focused 100% on my strengths and never on tells. My game isn't built on studying and constructing ranges away from the table and making my 'standard' plays at the table. I like to think through a lot of potential options and how I think my specific opponent might respond with different parts of his range, and doing that to the best of my abilities means maxing out my mental bandwidth on it. [/QUOTE]

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