Hand 1, I folded, 5 seconds later villain tabled AA.

A few years ago, I noticed that sometimes after I won a hand without showdown, there would be other unknown players at the table asking me quietly if I had AA, despite that it's a single raise pot, and despite that the board had no ace. This has led me to wonder if a player would display some 'tells' with AA if he / she would act or look slightly different and whether we can capture those info.

I am not the most sociable player at the casino and surely not the ones with the highest VPIP, so I have plenty of time observing other players pre flop, and later on if they showed AA, I would remember the little details they showed pre flop and built my database - a database for general human facial expression and body language.

I am a bit surprised by the amount of other players holding the 'against an unknown, never have folded KK PF, and never will' attitude, and I have not much motivation to alter the way they play, and now barely any passion left to convince anyone there's such thing as 'AA tell'.

Bog plays the hand purely according the hand, regardless whether our opponent is human or a pet, and regardless of all the info at the table to be captured and processed.

Because villain sat nearly directly opposite to me at the table, I could see his face so clearly. He drew my attention when he opened to 20 from utg+1 immediately. Yes he was an unknown on the table for 30 minutes and yes his previous play was no way close to a knit, but to me he has already displayed the 'AA tell'. That was the fist round of information before I saw my cards.

I then 3-bet my KK per standard play. And when he jammed that was the second round of information he gave out, for example, the tone when he said 'all in'.

It's easy to call with KK; tougher to find a fold. I wanted more information, so I asked him 'do you have aces?" Initially he didn't hear me with his earphones, then he realised I was talking to him so he took them off. I asked with smile again, 'do you have aces?" He didn't say anything but his natural reaction (I reckoned it's natural instead of Hollywood) convinced me yep he had it.

I folded, I said 'nice hand.'

5 second later, without anyone at the table prompting him to do so, he tabled AA.

It was the first time in my life I folded KK PF. No one at the table knows what I mucked. I was pleased he showed.


Hand 2, I called.

I still do not think our hand is in the best shape, if the V is a known competent player. However V was an unknown, and it was the first hand I saw him play at the table, I called.

Villain immediately said to me with excitement 'I have it!', and tabled his hand. For one split second I felt **** expecting to see QQ until I saw him tabling QTdd and he proudly said 'I have a queen.'

I felt relieved for less than 1 sec thinking my hand was in good shape, but I did not even have enough time to flip over my cards before the turn came a T which put my hand immediately behind with a little hope for the FD, and the river came another Q which had my hand completely smashed.

The villain stood up and nearly screamed. He was so excited to double up. I quietly mucked, but the shock, together with the roller coaster feeling I've had all within such a short time took me at least 1 orbit to recover from the inside.