From The Felt: More Online Poker Tells (And How To Avoid Them)
Monday, December 8, 2008 - John Greene
Last week, I talked about looking for online poker tells in other players and while it’s easy to reverse-engineer most of that advice to work to help your own games out, but I wanted to talk about a couple of things that could really help out just about every player who plays online poker at UltimateBet or another online poker room.
Timing, Timing, Timing
We’ve all experienced it in a live poker game, where we actually get in a strange zone where we don’t know if we’re actually thinking or if we’re trying to make them think we’re thinking. With online poker, you’ve got a countdown clock (generally less than 30 seconds) and the autoplay buttons, which means people expect faster play and view anything that might be an attempt to slow down the game with suspicion. I actually sat down with a stopwatch and trained myself to consistently make decisions in 15 seconds. Yes, I am that nerdy.
Don’t Give Away The Game
Hey, you, Mr or Miss Chat Box? Shut up.
Yeah, I said it. You can give away way, way more information than you’d think every time you get chatty at the tables. In a live game, where there’s other people physically there, a bit of chatter is a good thing, but calling out “Finally!” when you win a hand or bragging about someone else’s bad beat (and your bit of pure luck) gives others insights into the way you play, something you don’t necessarily want in online poker.
Be Unfailingly Polite
This kind of falls into the previous category, but if you ever lose a hand to someone and you must feel the need to say something, turn your “Go f*** yourself” into “Great hand! Good play!” or something like that. You can be raging away at the computer, breaking your keyboard and telling people in IM that this doofus took your money while hold a pair of fives, but at the table itself, people should get the impression that you’re cool as a ten Fonzies.
Plus, you know, they might not mind losing to you so much if you’re nice about the whole thing.
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