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Message: [QUOTE="apokerplayer, post: 1900270, member: 89201"] I think there's only been a couple decent books on tells: Mike Caro's and Joe Navarro's. I think the rest are uniformly bad. I think mine is the best of the bunch, and I say that very humbly, because I think it's mainly a statement about the quality of all of the other books out there and not about the quality of mine. I think my book is much more practical than either Caro's or Navarro's. I think Caro's book was good, but I think it was geared to playing very simple players with very obvious tells. Most of the tells he described you are unlikely to see in a game of decent stakes. I think Navarro's stuff is basically just a catalog of general human behavior; basically a "what's possible" list of behavior, without much poker knowledge behind it. I also think there's a lot about the behavior exhibited in criminal interrogations that doesn't cross over to poker, so I think a lot of Navarro's stuff is misguided. It does not read to me like it was written by someone who has played a lot of poker. I have a lot of tells in my book that I think are very important, and that I use regularly, and that I've never seen written about anywhere else. This was mainly the reason I wanted to write this book; not because I think I'm a poker tells "guru", but just because I was always surprised that I'd never seen these things covered. Lastly, I think my organization and framework for thinking about tells is much more practical a way to think about tells than I've seen anywhere else. I think it will help people spot player-specific tells and remember tells more easily than they have before. I don't like to toot my own horn, but check out some of the reviews on Amazon if you get a chance. I'm frankly very flattered by the response the book has gotten. [/QUOTE]

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