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Learn the secret of Poker Face and Read your Opponents

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The ability to read your opponent's mind is the secret of Poker. Learning non-verbal cues of your opponents sets you in a position where you can carefully plan your next move and strategize your winnings.
The ability to read your opponent's mind is the secret of Poker. Their gestures, talking, and even on how they express interest on the game could tell you about their hand; whether its good or not. Definitely, learning this non-verbal cues of your opponents sets you in a position where you can carefully plan your next move and strategize your winnings.

Poker Face is important in the game and every poker player is quite familiar with it. There are players who give away what they think and the ability to read those thoughts is a significant factor in poker. Of course, reading your opponent's mind is never been easy especially for beginners. This might be acquire for years of experience playing poker. Here are some tips to enhance your reading ability and your aptitude to recognize different situations in the poker table.

Understand and Be Familiar with your Opponent's Acting

Deceiving your opponent's is important in poker and this often done through tactic of acting. You should learn how your opponent's work. In poker, you could lead your opponent's to believe that you have a weak hand when in fact you have a strong one; and vice versa. Some poker pros do it; where they reverse these assumptions to bluff other players. Well, its always on how it could work for your own advantage.

Watch Out The Gestures

Players who has a good hand often “give away” gestures unconsciously. When they had a good hand, sometimes they suddenly get red faces, blushed, shaking, breath deep or some jittery gestures; this would be a hint for you if you are aware of this sudden gestures. In that case you could be prepare for your next move, but always be aware of your own gestures, too; since your opponent's might be watching you the same way. Watch out in such a way that you won't send out giveaways to your opponents.

Opponent's Talking Gives Clue

You faces different poker players and players do have their different attitude in the poker table. Some are quiet, some are talking. Well, its good to focus on your opponent's the way you focus on your own game. Try to spot for any changes in their behavior, or any kind of giveaways. Some players started talking when they have a bad hand; while other may start to hold their card protectively when they receive a good hand.

Your Opponent's Interest

Every players try their own way of poker face in the game; of course to fool you as their opponent's the same way you are watching them. Be familiar with the “not interested gestures”. Some players project that they are not interested in the game, gazing sideways or doing insignificant gestures. Remember that this is just a deception. If you seen this, this only shows that your opponent's has a strong cards and is going to raise when the bet come to him.

Poker Tactics, Pre-Flop

When your opponent checks on pre-flop, its means that he/she has been slow-playing something. He starts raising on the turn or there are players who wait all the way to the river hoping that somebody else will start the betting and then can check-raise him. Always be aware of your opponent's playing tactics, so that you don't find yourself falling with this fool mistakes.

Raise-Bet-Check Pattern

In poker, be aware not to fall yourself with this raise-bet-check pattern of your opponents. Players who raises and then checks, this means that he wanted to bluff. Don't get yourself into this situation either, its a sign of weakness.

In poker tournaments, how you read your opponents mind is as important as you project your own poker face. This is half of your success. You must know how to project, convince and manipulate your opponents into believing you. As you notice, some poker players try to cover their faces with sunglasses, hoods or hats while they were in the poker table. But its more effective if you could learn how to use deceptive countermeasures to mislead your opponents. Learn about body language not just with the face but the whole body language as a whole and the behavior of the person. Learning your opponent's poker face is being familiar with her body language, mannerisms and behaviors.

Your poker face on the other hand is the matter of strong projection. Its the ability to convince and tell your opponents what you want him to believe you are holding. Poker is definitely the game of mind!

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Yori Misori is an author of online casinos and gambling related articles. Enjoy poker reviews at Yori's Celebrity Poker Face Blog featuring poker's best celebrity players and tournament updates.

Keywords : poker strategy, player gestures, tips,

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