2009-06-09 • Gugster • Views:835
Are there any online poker tells when you play poker online? According to Taylor Caby who plays at Full Tilt Poker, there are some things you should be aware of when you sit down at a poker table. This can give you the advantage when you play against others at a poker table.
Taylor Caby who plays at Full Tilt Poker and is a recognized as a skilled online poker player with several great results behind him from ring games, is sharing some tips on fulltiltpoker.com on what you should think about when you as a player sits down at a poker table. Unlike live poker, you cannot stare the opponent in the eye, see if his hand is shaking more than usual or if the chips are stacked in a certain way to reveal a poker tell.
But that does not mean that there isn’t online poker tells. Taylor Caby explains that there is a lot of information to intercept for the observant player. Many of these poker tells can be discovered even before you sit down at a poker table online. He calls this important first impression for pre-game tell.
One of the important pre-game tells according to Taylor Caby is the size of the opponents' buy-in. The first Taylor Caby do is to check how much the opponent has bought in for at the table in relation to the maximum buy-in at the table. The more advanced players buy in for a maximum buy-in or close to it. They prefer to have a lot of chips on the table so they have plenty of ammunition to bully their opponents, bluffing and semi-bluffing. The more inexperienced opponents tend to buy in for much smaller amounts, usually the lowest possible. By buying short, players hope to protect themselves from a huge loss. What they don’t understand, according to Taylor Caby, is that the more experienced players will pick up this as a sign of weakness. When Taylor Caby selects a table before a poker session, it’s this kind of player he looks for, because these players generally play scared. But Caby raises a warning finger, that there are players who buy in for less than the maximum amount which are actually winning players.
Another tip from Taylor Caby at Fulltiltpoker.com is that you can use the Find a player feature available in the poker lobby, among others at Full Tilt Poker. By searching for the opponent’s username, you can find out how many tables opponent plays on. If an opponent plays multi-tables, four tables or more, he will generally be a solid player.
By combining the tips from Taylor Caby, you can find out a lot of information about a player, before you even sat down. If you see a player with a maximum buy-in or more and sit and play on more than 8 tables, maybe you should have that in mind when you sit in a pot together. If there are several people with that same profile on the table, perhaps another table is more suitable to play on. However if you see a player who plays on one table and have a half buy-in, the chances are good that he is an inexperienced player that you would like to play many pots with.
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