Poker Term of the Week

This week’s term is tell. A tell is a hint or a clue that a player unknowingly provides about the strength/weakness of his/her hand, next action, or other potential move. In essence, the player tells you what s/he is going to do. Some believe this word originated from “telegraph.”

The best and most successful poker players don’t provide many tells themselves, and many are adept at detecting their opponents’ tells during play.

In fact, poker pro and casino executive Mike Caro devoted an entire book to identifying potential tells entitled Caro’s Book of Poker Tells: The Psychology and Body Language of Poker (2003) hailed as one of the ten greatest poker books ever written.

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DeepStack Showdown Event #20 Final Table Update

We have reached the final table of our DeepStack Showdown Event #20 $3,500 NLH WPT $1M GTD. Our remaining six players are:

Seat 1: Danny Qutami: 3.945 million
Seat 2: Tony Gargano: 2.205 million
Seat 3: Will Givens: 4.035 million
Seat 4: Orlando Barrera: 5.135 million
Seat 5: Ben Palmer: 9.52 million
Seat 6: Mark Ioli: 4.485 million

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Photo credit: Joe Giron/pokerphotoarchive.com

You can follow all of the final table action live here.