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Message: [QUOTE="ghughes, post: 1555444, member: 69226"] Just on the surface, what are some of the things you notice about Phil Ivey? 1) he does NOT wear sunglasses to hide his eyes. Why? So he can accurately read tell-tail signs (physiological changes) in the other players (eye patterns, pupil dilation, skin tone, etc.) I know from long experience that it is virtually impossible to read these signals through dark glasses. 2) He doesn't cover or shade his eyes in any way during play. He doesn't need to. Why? Because he has trained himself not to feel any emotion during a hand that would betray his position. 3) His eyes are going back and forth from player to player--even those not in the hand. Why? Why look at players not in the hand? Because poker for him is about reading the other players. He calibrates the physiology of the other players when the player is not in the hand. When the player is in the hand, Ivey can easily, yes, easily tell the strength of the players hand by the players physiology. Negraneu is excellent at this as well. (This is a very different approach to poke than say Helmuth who likes to set up these elaborate traps for his opponents and then gets pissed when they don't act the way 'he thinks a poker player should'. Then they're idiots and he throws a fit.) Which brings us to 4) Ivey controls his emotions. Think of poker as playing the stock market. Each poker hand is like the little ups and downs in the market. If you're in for the long haul you are able to leave emotions at the door. Inside, you're emotionally quiet. Now, you're in a position to read the emotions of the other players. [/QUOTE]

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