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 Benefits of Spotting Opening Poker tells.
In online poker unfortunately your poker tells are very limited since you never get the opportunity to lay eyes on your opponent betting Patterns are your only clue. However in real live poker games where you are sitting across from your opponent you have access too much more information. One of the most beneficial times to be able to get a read on the other poker players is preflop. This is the time where you can decide how to play a hand or if you want to play a marginal hand. When you have a strong starting hand like a high pocket pair like Kings or Aces you know you want to raise preflop and get rid of the marginal hands. Well imagine how great it would be to let someone else open for you and then you can either reraise or depending on the situation you can just call and disguise the true strength of your hand. This will also confuse your opponents since they will think wow this guy may just limp in with AA or KK and just smooth call. This is the kind of thing you can do if you watch for opening poker tells. That is why when youre hole cards are dealt you must fight the urge to look at them and watch the reactions of the other players. Once you pick up a tell on someone now you can start using the information to make plays that you usually would not make. For example lets say you know that a guy behind you always reaches for chips when he has a weak hand but wants to limp in. Now you can take advantage of that and foil his plans or lets say you know when one of the poker players behind you guards his cards or acts un interested when he plans to raise preflop. Now you can just smooth limp in preflop and after that you can reraise him or smooth call depending on the situation. Spotting opening poker tells is just like spotting them any other time a lot of the same tells apply here. However you will miss most of them if you focus on the cards and not the player. Of course in online poker all this great stuff go’s out the window and you just have to act based on betting patterns and any pattern you have seen in the online poker player. So at your next local cash game or poker tournament start watching for tells prelfop and see how it changes your game.
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