Meet The Pirate of Poker!

My fellow holdem players, here is The Pirate! If by some chance you get to play with us, you would actually hear us call him "dee Pirate" in our native poker dialect. He is one of THE nastiest opponents at the table.

Just look at the EVIL grin on him as he is counting out his chips to make this call.  He truly is fearless with a seemingly endless bankroll.

Now, probably one of the reasons he is getting ready to do some splashing is he was paying attention, not like these people:  http://www.youtube.com/TOTALLYOBLIVIOUS
The Pirate will pay attention to your body language.  He won't make a big deal about it, nor will he even admit that he is doing it.  But, make NO mistake.  He is watching and trying to get any whiff of fear he can in your play, searching for weakness.

One of the physical tells that I mentioned to my subscribers - SIGN UP ON THE RIGHT, BY THE WAY - is detailed in Joe's article:  I Feel Sorry For You If You Don't Know Who Joe Is

It's funny because, I almost feel like I am giving too much away with this information.  But then again, if you get better, I am forced to play better myself.  So, in the hardcore sense it helps us all out.

Basically what it boils down to is this.  Pay attention to how people behave, even when you and they are not in the hand.  This gives you a baseline.  Then as they play out a hand - Observe!  Then compare that to their baseline.  It takes a lot of effort, but eventually you'll be able to spot the fear just like the Pirate.

All of this is in Joe's book - Read'em and Reap that is has a link just down below. Don't go out and buy this. Just ask The Pirate to borrow it. He has studied this thing inside and out. He has had it since it came out. It is kind of our little secret. I know no one else at our game has this Manual of All Manuals for spotting tells. So, like I said borrow it from The Pirate and just forget to give it back to him so he can't reference any longer..