Phil Hellmuth Presents Read 'Em and Reap: A Career FBI Agent's Guide to Decoding Poker Tells
by Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins, Phil Hellmuth
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Author: Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins, Phil HellmuthEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-11-07
ISBN: 0061198595
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Collins Living
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Book Review: The Best Book for Poket tells around... Period!
Summary: 5 Stars
Well, trying to learn about all aspects of the game, I wanted to learn more about poker tells.
Of course I have seen Mike Caro's book of poker tells, it is a good one but a bit aged, and I wanted something fresh. So when I came upon a pdf-copy of this one, I took a look. And it was so good that I didn't hesitate a moment, I came in and ordered it right away...
This book is great! Joe Navarro gives his long time experience of how to read people and understand the way they react and why. The fine thing, about it, is that Joe Navaroo is a guy who gained the experience of reading people not in poker games, but in real life tough situations! It shows all around in the book. He just had to adjust his knowledge to the game, learn about the game and then put his "reading" abilities in work on the tables, to give us the results.
This is actually better than anything I have read about poker tells (and I have read a few stuff besides Mike Caro's famous Book of Tells), cause it is right to the point, with lots of pictures showing exactly the faces and reactions of the people, that he describes in his book, right in the same page.
I mean, for a guy like me, coming from Greece and with fine, but not excellent, knowledge of English, this is so important! I can actually see the faces he talks about. And if you consider that I have been only a few times at poker tables (still consider myself a student of the game), only the fact that I can protect myself from being read (there is a whole chapter about that) is crusial!
In fact, I recommend to anyone to buy this book! It costs next to nothing and the first time you will be able to protect yourself from being read from another player (by following Joe's advices), you will be paid back the money you spent about it! Period!
One more GOOD thing is that this book is not too big. I mean, let's face it, the Super System had to be big and extensive, to live to its reputation, but this one HAD to be smaller! Who will spend his time reading a 500-page book on tells? I would prefer to use this time to read a book about poker instead. So this 200-page book is IDEAL in size, just as big as it had to be!
Phil Hellmuth's contribution with his little stories is a good one, giving a break here and there with some stories from Poker tables, from his long experience.
I've got one last thing to say: Tells are vey important for real-life poker players, cause even the best of players, even proffesionals, can't escape from giving tells to anyone who looks for them...
I have been watching "High Stakes Poker" a lot and I could spot tells on Daniel Negreanu, Sam Farha, Mike Matusow (this guy is really full of tells!), Jamie Gold etc...
But I can't forget watching a specific episode: On the table, among others, was Guy Laliberte, a billionaire playing with some of the best pros. In one hand, he watches his hole cards and is rather uninterested, since they were nothing important. Then the flop comes and it hits big for him, a nut straight I think, I don't remember it exactly but it was the absolut NUTS! Guy then gave an "anti-gravity tell" that it was so obvious, you could not ignore it in anyway! His face was calm and uninterested, his moves smooth, nothing else showed anything, but for anyone aware of anti-gravity tells, this one shouted out to the table: I'VE GOT THE NUTS!!!
Not everyone noticed it and a couple of players paid it with some serious cash!
If a High Stakes experienced player like Guy Laliberte (or Mike or Daniel etc) gives tells we can spot, then learning about tells is the next most important thing after learning the game itself!
And "Read 'em and Reap" is the best tool around to do the job!
Hey, Joe, thanks from a reader of yours in distant Greece ;-)
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Summary of Phil Hellmuth Presents Read 'Em and Reap: A Career FBI Agent's Guide to Decoding Poker Tells
very great player knows that success in poker is part luck, part math, and part subterfuge. While the math of poker has been refined over the past 20 years, the ability to read other players and keep your own "tells" in check has mostly been learned by trial and error.
But now, Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer specializing in nonverbal communication and behavior analysis-or, to put it simply, a man who can tell when someone's lying-offers foolproof techniques, illustrated with amazing examples from poker pro Phil Hellmuth, that will help you decode and interpret your opponents' body language and other silent tip-offs while concealing your own. You'll become a human lie detector, ready to call every bluff-and the most feared player in the room.
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