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Originally Posted by bombonca
This is very reliable IMO. If they bet strong and you didn't have eye contact with them so far in a hand, you look at them and they twitch , move their head slightly, their face changes like they are not comfortable = they are bluffing. However, this can be reversed but not all are good actors. Don't look at them while you are thinking what to do, then look at them suddenly and if they twitch it means they are trying to stay cool in extremely stressful situation for them - bluffing. A lot of experienced players , properly rolled players will try to act like this and lead you to think they are understress, so this will work more with scared players, not rolled and stressed - they should be your target for this tell.
That's funny, my first ever live tell came in a situation just like this. I'm not sure exactly what I held or what the board was, but I had Queens and I'm pretty sure it was 2nd pair on a paired board. The pot was a fair size and the guy bet a little more than $20 on the river HU (my guess is the pot is around $30-40 before this). It was only my second ever time at a casino and I was playing pretty nitty/tight, so I definitely wanted to fold. I know my table image is tight though, and that the guy has likely noticed this. I also don't feel like he's that strong considering how the hand was played.
After thinking for 5-10 seconds I decided to stare the guy down for a read although I didn't expect it to do me anything. I hadn't made any type of contact with the guy prior to the hand. After staring him down (he was across the table, I'm in seat 4, he's in 8) for a couple seconds he finally notices I am doing so, and he makes some kind of nervous, twitching movement with his face. When I noticed it I immediately got the feeling he was bluffing me, and I decide to call him down, and to my delight he insta-mucks. Being a beginner I still tabled my hand. It was a nice sized pot, and it was a great feeling.
This is $1/2 of course.
Last edited by Liberec Mages; 01-26-2016 at 01:24 AM.