When I make big bluffs I continue chatting up the table and talking to people outside of the hand to project confidence and strength.

When I’m nutted and I put out an over bet I act scared and recede and try to look stoic or as if I’m worried.

Generally, I don't try to use reverse tells, because they can backfire when bad opponents misinterpret them. The only one I'll sometimes employ is taking a sip of my drink when I'm bluffing and my opponent is tanking. Apparently the big bet followed by taking a drink is supposed to look strong.

I've noticed that a lot of the well-known tells aren't as reliable as many people think. The snap-jam on the river isn't always a bluff. The reaching for chips isn't always a sign of weakness, etc.

Curiously, I once rivered the nuts (Broadway, in this case) in a big pot with a guy I'd been chatting with all night. He seemed like a good guy, but he was stuck a lot, and I was up a ton. Before I jammed, I told him I was going to jam, and he needed to fold. I jammed, and he tanked.

As he's tanking, he's talking to me, and trying to get a read. I told him I wasn't going to tell him exactly what I had, and wasn't going to show him, but that I'd never try to angle him, and he should really fold, because I had it.

He called anyway. He flopped top set and slow-played it. He just refused to believe I rivered the nuts, despite how good I was running that night, and my emphatic pleas that he fold, because I didn't want to stack him and have him leave the game.

Since then, I don't try to employ speech play or any other theatrics to influence my opponents' decisions. I just push the chips in and stare down at the table or at some far point in the room, and wait.

I try to do the same thing no matter what. I don't think reverse tells work enough and occasionally they become tells in themselves -- they will get you crushed in higher stakes games where people are actually good enough to notice tells and will be useless at lower stakes. Just try to do the same thing every time.

And BTW, your tells are not reverse tells -- they are the normal tells people look for. Showing strength = weakness and showing weakness = strength. Reverse them if you are trying to give reverse tells. LOL.

Consider making a pot-sized bet. We are laying the villain odds of 2:1, so we want one bluff for every two value hands to make the villain indifferent between calling and folding.

Before we make the bet, glance at our watch. If the second hand is arc between 12 and 4, we are going to represent a bluff, regardless of whether we are bluffing or betting for value, and be tense and quiet, doing as little as possible to attract attention; and if it is between 4 and 12 we represent strength, and be relaxed and talkative. This makes our fake tells both balanced and random, completely uncorrelated with whether we are actually bluffing or actually betting for value.

My watch is digital please advise.

Exactly. It is the first example in Mike Caro's Book of Tells from 20 years ago.

Weak is strong and strong is weak when it's deliberate.

Weak is weak and strong is strong when it's a genuine reaction.

If you can tell when someone's deliberate and when he's genuine, please tell me, I 'd like to know.

Genuine actions appear natural, unforced, and can often be subtle, because the person making them may not realize you're watching, and if they did, they wouldn't want you to notice.

Deliberate actions often appear forced and exaggerated, because the person making them want to be sure you notice.

I've found that pretending your not interested in the hand and ready to muck with your cards in your hand often gets opponents to bet/call.