Reading Poker Tells

At the Borgata, I realized one tell I had to add to my list of poker tells: If a player starts breathing rapidly/heavily, so that you can see their chest moving, they have a good hand. Or the flop hit them really hard. When you get excited, your heart rate speeds up and your breathing speeds up and it's a hard tell to control. This helped me more than once during the last tournament, when I correctly read once pre-flop that my opponent had Ace-King and my pocket jacks were worth calling her all-in with, and then later when I realized my opponent had a low pocket pair and had hit a set on the flop so my top-pair top-kicker was garbage. Read more about poker tells here.Tuesday January 23, 2007