The Most Common SUBCONSCIOUS Poker Tell | Daniel Negreanu & Alex Botez

[@ThePatriots010304]

The immediate pause in table talk on the flop and the almost instant looking down at the chips are two dead giveaways.

[@l.h.tnguyen4916]

Thanks captain obvious; just repeated what Daniel said.

[@ticenits1926]

At the same time someone who seems to completely ignore everything happening and continues with their conversation like they don't care about the board is often a very obvious reverse tell, about as egregious as someone who suddenly just starts staring at the TV watching the game is if they aren't making it obvious they've " Lost interest in the hand" when they actually have the nuts

[@fulldork]

I'm no pro or anything, but when I used to play more I did this a lot and noticed that others did it a lot too. So what I did was when the flop was coming out I'd look at the dealers hands or study the other player, not the cards, then count to 3 in my head before looking at the cards one at a time. This will allow you to make your next movement deliberate. Another good thing is if you stay in for the flop, make sure you already know how many chips you have left. If you're in a heads up with a pretty big pot you can also ask the other person for a count of their chips to cause a distraction while you check yours. If you're up against an experienced opponent, they'll know you're doing this, so you can choose to either wait or look at your chips on purpose while they are studying you to setup a bluff. Thanks for humoring me and reading this, I don't gamble anymore so YT is the best outlet 😛

[@T123456788]

I remember in Mike Caro's book on poker tells he advises that you never watch the flop come out and ALWAYS watch the other players. The cards will never disappear but the most raw reaction a person might have will.

[@fulldork]

@@T123456788 hah nice, I did it instinctively at first the I think I heard an announcer of WSOP say it so kept doing it 😂 your version sounds much smarter way to learn tho!

[@ColinMcNulty]

> "I don't gamble anymore" There's a story behind those words... what happened?

[@fulldork]

@@ColinMcNulty 😂 bad times with crypto currency meme coins. It kinda snuck up on me cuz I had only ever done poker and other “skill games” never slots or roulette or whatever. Thankfully I got out without losing my starting money but at one point I was up $1M, got out basically even. Stress breakdown, went to psychiatrist to help, she gave me a medicine I was allergic too and made my skin crawl and I couldn’t eat for 3 months. Nearly had a mental breakdown. (Offered a friend $100k to kill me, thank goodness he didn’t, I don’t have that kinda $ that’s the problem 😂 ). Luckily another doctor figured out my problem before it ruined my life. Worst 6 months ever. Promised my wife I wouldn’t gamble anymore.

[@ColinMcNulty]

@@fulldork Shit man, sounds like you had a lucky escape. Well done on asking for help, many wouldn't, and for finally getting sorted. Crypto is one of those crazy things. I seriously looked at crypto many years ago, and very nearly bought 40 bitcoin when they were $400 each... of course I wish I had now, but them's the breaks.

[@stephenholmgren405]

"If you don't see something you like, you keep starring at it" lol that's is dead-on, like your pissed off at the cards for not being good 🤣

[@bryanmarshall5031]

I think it was in Supersystems where Doyle says the more you're looking at the board, the more you're looking for a hand. Then you just have to determine if they're doing it for real or not.

[@ZenithWest169]

More like: What hand can I try to bluff with? What hands can my opponents are likely to have? What possible cards can come up on the river and turn that could turn my losing hand around?

[@DexterHaven]

Yeah, and the opposite when looking at chicks.

[@OmegaMouse]

I tried to act disappointed, no matter what hand I got. Only tell I thought I had was my racing heart rate.

[@hybridce99]

@@OmegaMouse you know the saying, strength means weakness, weakness means strength.

[@ComputerMan_OG]

You need to understand that everything you do at the Poker table conveys information

[@timmyp34]

She should have been eating a sandwich?

[@huormis]

Who doesnt understand this?

[@metsrus]

You can't be all loosy goosy.

[@metsrus]

@@huormis i'd say everything you don't do conveys too.

[@austintyler7901]

Whoa! What are you like, a poker genius??!! 😂

[@looneyhorizon]

if you showed me the thumbnail of this without the title i would never believe this is a poker video

[@lordbunbury]

They’re working on their thumbnail face

[@charlesg7926]

I don’t even like poker but I clicked for the babe

[@herlingaaland]

@@charlesg7926 just in case you like chess, she also plays chess.

[@robertwallace5498]

it wasnt the looking down at her chips, it was the pause in the convo and her serious look

[@7doghead]

also true

[@masterlee4370]

Having watched Daniel for many years I won a local tournament of $5k. It was the only one I ever played for real money and my son paid my entrance fee as a birthday present. I lucked out twice in that tournament once calling an all in with pocket eights. He had ace/queen and it held for me. The other I had 4/5 suited in the big blind. I called a 3 bet. The flop came out 6/7/3 rainbow. He bet and I called. The turn was a king and he bet big. I went all in and he called. He had pocket kings. A queen on the river and my straight held up. He was some mad I called his 3 bet before the flop. Reminded me of Phil Helmeth. But that is poker. It happens to all of us. I did split the winnings with my son.

[@dunsdonjone1537]

"Reminded me of phil" LMFAO

[@cwdoby]

you had the best hand when the money went in both times. thats not lucky

[@RachelHoyt]

This is a great example! Such a common tell.

[@thyppolito]

Mike Caro's #1 poker tell of his legendary book!

[@bobbywhite1645]

This is also from the 1984 book "Caro's Book of Poker Tells" Daniel giving up the 38 year old secrets

[@chesh05]

It wasn't a 38 year old secret FOR HER.

[@stephen3762]

The most number 1 tell!

[@Souliss24]

Did you seriously misspell Alex Botez name in the description?

[@MelFinehout]

People like to say live tells are way overemphasized. I find them in almost every live game I play. I think it’s a huge source of edge WHEN ADDED TO SOLID STRATEGY.

[@topthehill4549]

Dwan missed this tell against Peter. In the million dollar game on hustler live. When Peter had 10 s full . On the river before Peter checked..

[@magicjack]

I'm a magician and there's a few facial expressions and body indicators we look for when a card selection is involved. A past magician / bar owner named J.C. Wagner was a master at cold-reading expressions and such.

[@allTheRobs]

DG's openness works to his advantage, because people open up in response

[@TenthCrane2788]

The reason so many players wear sunglasses.

[@BaileyFunk-x2u]

Idk I’m gonna call cap I feel like she checked at the same time, maybe from Daniels view it was different but for the viewer it just looks like she’s looking at where she’s gonna tap the table. There was an ace high board and she gave a lot of info pre flop with the table talk and saying she was thinking about three betting but didn’t, and a lot of the hands your gonna want to 3 bet bluff with contain an ace especially when you block a king and a queen, I think the look at the chips had nothing to do with it.

[@austintyler7901]

So I will jump in and disagree a bit while risking looking like these other...poker savants throwing in their genius level reads.😂 By my perspective and experience, you are right in a sense. They were very close to happening at the same time. But what even I honestly caught in the first watch is exactly the same tell I use in my piddly ass, help to buy liquor and smokes weekly game. That is the slight look even in the vicinity of one's chips: followed by the check. Hers was, imo, far less obvious that many to most, but it is that miniscule hesitation that tends to come from: "I just nailed something and want more chips in the middle." Followed immediately by, "oh wait, sources I've read or watched might tell me to let my opponent do that for me, and/or catch up a bit (in the case of a major flop hit such as this) That is why I, and assume the majority of other competent players, already have their next move determined, along with some flexibile secondary options for extremely polarized or wet flops.

[@BaileyFunk-x2u]

@@austintyler7901 I’ll be honest I was kinda dumb in my original comment and wasn’t totally thinking of heads up I’m more of a cash player and not as studied there so idk how accurate my comments about ranges were, honestly probably way off. That said I still feel like the check was close enough to looking down that you’d have to compare it to how she checked other hands to have any level of confidence in a live tell like that.

[@austintyler7901]

@user-jq9yx9he5g and everything is definitely contextual. I'm, honestly, not a gto, range studied player. I've glanced at it, watched a fee videos with varying degrees of attention span for the sake of being acquainted; but none is that is involved with my comment. This, to me (a dummy simpleton with next to no real experience or credentials) is simply an old school, simple,but must be watching for and understand it, tell. First instinct after smashing the flop is to look for a way to get as lr

[@BaileyFunk-x2u]

@@austintyler7901 she’s also new to poker and while she’s very smart she’s at a very specific stage of progression, and I think Daniels going to have a very good idea of where she’s at. I guess I won’t disagree that looking at the chips is a factor but I just think he had way more information than the hand tap and idk if he would’ve be that confident about it but I could be wrong.

[@derailedtrain2517]

For me it was the brutal disrupture regarding their ongoing conversation that raised a red flag

[@kalolewalow]

We got the answer! Thank god lol I thought we wouldn’t

[@johnb5307]

The dealer knew!

[@badinibeats5939]

daniel is a natural comedian

[@tkell31]

One reason people continue to stare is they are calculating outs. It's not so much they don't like what they see as it is processing where they are at.

[@imsa15463]

I could totally play and win live tournament poker with the pros... As long as I covered my head, face, hands, eyes, mouth, and arms.

[@bobsiddoway]

Daniel is too legit at reading people AND guessing their hands!

[@hitman5782]

I am an actor and i love to do poker tells, of course with the direct opposite hand.

[@cial67]

Amateurs should NEVER talk during a hand

[@metsrus]

When Daniel shuts up, then you know whats up.

[@stevenfagaly3810]

It would help if you could see the flop instead of the dealer's back.

[@allanbardon146]

How about when they look at the flop and stare at your chips?

[@Eadweard76]

Two things, how much money can I get. Also am I able to potentially push them off a hand.

[@aidenrogatz8071]

Look down at the chips

[@smartbomb7202]

at least danny boy isn't wearing a tank top showing off his big guns...lol

[@roccitysoundllc3404]

Well also u had no part of that flop 🤣 yall gotta be kidding me and it's very easy to put her on a ace min

[@AmadeuShinChan]

Online Poker the house always wins

[@altqq1755]

Just because you’re horrible at playing doesn’t ring true for everyone

[@AmadeuShinChan]

@@altqq1755 even gg Poker itself was "hacked" by the "lone wolf"

[@joas162]

That's a common thing to say for people who haven't studied the game enough to be winning players

[@lkaram2705]

Online mathematic is different , only clever players undertands it . Don't you see online players all drivers bogati and living in penthouses and they have they own yacht ? 😁😁

[@elogedelanuance]

"the house always wins" yes and? the earth rotates on itself? That doesn't mean it's the only winner

[@YTSparty]

I wouldn't mind if Alex faked it with me, especially if I couldn't tell

[@HoangLeQuang-cx6bn]

She also shows too much "Gum" When it's a bad flop, No Gum. When it's a good flop "GUM".

[@wesleykorisky8600]

It's not as ambitious as you think, Alex. Just takes some self awareness and some practice.

[@catazep]

It's the third time I see this thumb nail today and I know it is about poker with Dnegs, but "it is almost imposible to fake it" and Alex's face smiling? My mind just 😅

[@joas162]

😂 Had to check back, wasn't disappointed

[@catazep]

@@joas162 I'm glad it was worthed cause I've rechecked my comm and I had like 1 word out of 2 typos 🤣🤣🤣

[@JoeTakagi00]

Is Daniel hooking up with Botez?

[@cuthwulf]

She doesn't even realize a fake live tell is a "reverse tell". She also had about 4 other tells that DNegs didn't even bother telling her. The "pause" in chatter, the whole arm used to check vs just her hand, etc. But she has the same problem most women do in poker...their corpus collosum. IYKYK

[@michaelblaes9847]

I believe this is why women don't do as well in poker as men when they should be able to. To many tells.

[@jpVari]

How can you know what's a tell and what's random from like two interactions? You could be right or not. You have a possible read, helped by seeing her cards. Not guaranteed spotted tells. Edit - Google says that part of their brain may be larger than men. I suppose you've deduced that out to be a reason to have more poker tells? I'm thinking it's more about knowing tells so you avoid them... I mean neg knew that chip tell from mostly playing with men. If you've got the studies that's awesome, I didn't see them on quick glance. Iykyk is cool as a concept but most people prefer evidence. I hope it's not rude to ask, I'm in no way denying your position as I do not know.

[@patrickledonne5547]

​​@@jpVari so a successful live poker player will in most cases be a great observer of people. This just happens to be one of the first basic tells that beginners and rec players will do that usually indicates strength. Believe it or not if your arms and hands are shaking when you bet, it's generally a sign of strength as well. Especially playing at your kitchen table with a bunch of friends who have never watched a poker training video. Pros are going to be skilled and talented at deciphering unconscious tells from a reverse tell, where she might glance at her chips to fake strength. If you want to confirm if it's a real tell or a reverse tell, you just have to observe how they play for awhile? What happened in other hands where she glanced at her chips? Did she show down some monsters? Did she do some betting or check raising and win most of those hands indicating strength? If so you probably have a tell. As you see this happen more and more you have a strong tell. You now know to always take a free card when offered and take some more shots chasing draws when you don't otherwise quite have pot odds to call knowing you'll probably get paid when you hit

[@chrishamilton1728]

You really dropped the ball with that last sentence. You almost sounded smart lol

[@patrickledonne5547]

@@maximumred7334 because you know about the tell and how players unfamiliar with you will interpret your shaking, use it to your advantage. Look for reasonable bluff opportunities and bluff away when playing against people you don't know. It's nearly impossible to fake that shake and make it look genuine. If yours looks genuine people will tend to believe it until you have to show one of those bluffs.

[@cristianmicu]

what thrills me is they both are ROMANIANS

[@ryanbahnsen6429]

Alex will get this down in no time. Women are great at faking it.

[@DavidLish-hf5lm]

Good video but reading some of these comments really makes me laugh. Try and read me hahaaaaa

[@PeterParker-vq2cz]

1:39 I didnt realize she has top dentures. interesting

[@stewiegriffin6503]

I pissed of Negreanu in YT chat and he lost tournament because of me . He was super tilted, repeating , this noob (me) in chat is telling me, I shouldn't have played J7 suited preflop, but the percentages were bla bla bla.

[@jaymoney522]

She cant be all loosey goosey eating a sandwich.....

[@ForeheadPushUps]

She's so into him, I can TELL that

[@FKCENSORSHIP]

She needs to shut her mouth when hes about to tell her valuable information.

[@dalekooper5465]

She was too loosey goosey...I'm surprised she wasn't on her phone or eating a sandwich....

[@bbm1077]

that girl is a ggpoker spokesperson now...😅😅🤡🤡