Read About Common Poker Tells (#6): My Favorite Tell

Common Poker Tells (#6): My Favorite Tell

We have talked about betting patterns as a tell and chips as a tell; now let’s combine the two into my favorite poker tell. There are basically two ways to put chips into the pot; you place the chips or you toss the chips. Now clearly to avoid a chip betting tell, you should always bet with the same movement but, once again, players often do not do this.

Watch a player, if they place there chips in the pot sometimes and toss them other times, you may have a dead on tell. But be careful because some players toss when they are strong and others toss to intimidate when they are weak. Some players will gently place their chips in the pot when they have the nutz and others will place them in quietly hoping you won’t catch their bluff.

This chip tell can be different for different players but once you have it figured out, you can make a lot of money with this tell. Players are clearly unaware they do this, just as they are unaware of most tells. But this is a lazy tell, if you can’t be disciplined enough to make the same chip move each time you bet then the tell is nearly always a fool proof sign of the players weakness or strength; it is your job to figure out which.

-This is Beginner’s Poker Forum Post #107