Hi,

I'm looking for advice and honest opinions and I realize this is a poker forum but could I make a profit if:

My opponents always knows what I have. My mind is an open book due to a long-passed withdrawal from psych/anxiety meds that kept my thoughts in for the most part. If I play with my hand face up can I expect to win?

I'm guessing the whole smile when he has a good hand and frown when he has a bad one is psychology or could I do this and play my reads. It doesn't make sense, right?

I'm perplexed by your question. What does your psych history have to do with you giving off tells and what is your question exactly?

I never had issues keeping thoughts to myself before psych meds but a withdrawal caused the opposite effect on my mind so now everyone can hear my thoughts.

My question is because my thoughts give away my hand 100% of the time, would I be able to win while my opponents know what I haven't. I would have to trust my reads and sometimes play without looking. But I can't keep that to myself either i.e. I would announce in my thoughts that I'm not looking at my cards.

None of the above is actually happening its a theoretical question.

I would avoid playing poker while experiencing psychosis.

If any of your theoretical question is a legitimate concern, I would advise you to first have a talk with your psychiatrist about changing your meds/dosage to get that under control.

If strictly an oddly worded hypothetical, I suppose that it would be possible to win a few hands here and there by luck alone but you would certainly lose long term.

The other players can't read your mind. Prove otherwise and you get a Nobel Prize and your own late-night, anything goes, radio show ala 'Coast to Coast AM.'

Legit question: How? What is the mechanism in which they use to do this?

If you play enough hands it should become readily apparent that your opponents do not know what cards you have. Better players will be able to put you on a range better, but unless you show another player your cards it is very unlikely that they know what you have.

Play the lowest stakes available to you until you start feeling better. Playing real money poker while dealing with thoughts like this is probably not a +ev move.

If you think that people can read your thoughts, then I suggest that person go seek treatment immediately.

Thanks for the input. Really I haven't played poker in a while and if this were to happen to me I would wait until I would be less obvious.

I postulate, theoretically, that the OP could hear other people's thoughts, thus they might be able to hear his.

Seems kind of a non-sense hypothetical. As in, "If I have this near-delusional thought, is it possible to win?" The fact that one is experiencing the delusion (or near delusion), would have no reality as to whether the opponents would really know what he holds. It's a non-factor almost (the almost being that the player would tend to be more readable than most, but just not in this delusional "others can hear my thoughts" idea.

If the situation really did exist - that other players knew what you had 100% of the time - you would still win pots of course, but your EV would be staggeringly negative.

Still it feels like nonsense. If one is not having this delusion, the discussion means nothing because the situation does not actually exist (other than in his own perception, in which case their is something to deal with, otherwise not).