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In terms of quantity, there are actually not many naturalists, but there are much more acting ones. Natural cards are mainly focused on women and men who are shy and inexperienced.

 

Lying is not their specialty, they feel uncomfortable because of lying, and they tend to focus too much on their own cards, without analyzing what cards their opponents have, let alone whether their expressions, movements, etc. are revealing.

 

Once the Naturalists are identified, dealing with them is relatively easy. Below we mainly focus on the acting school. The core tenet of the acting school is "the strong should be made weak, and the weak should be made strong." This means that when he appears weak, he probably has very strong cards; conversely, when he is intimidating, brave, and seemingly fearless, he often happens to have nothing in his hand. The example at the beginning of our article is a good illustration. Let’s look at an example of “weakness becomes strong”.

 

A trick that has been tried and tested by the acting school is the betting and raising after speaking to show weakness, which often means a very strong hand.

 

Scenario: You have two pairs on the turn card. You make a value bet, and your opponent shrugs and spreads his hands (the most common action for Americans to express "helplessness", 95% of Americans use it more than 20 times a day), and calls. On the river you continue to value bet and your opponent reraises. At this point more than 80% of your two pairs are defeated.

 

There are two situations for your opponent. One is that there is a draw on the turn card, and the river card is a draw; the other is that the turn card is a slow-play monster, and you hit the muzzle on the river card. No matter what the situation, he will never bluff after showing weakness and being caught by you. If he was going to bluff, he wouldn't make that move on the turn. This tell is at least 90% accurate.

 

How to take advantage: If you have medium strength hands, tend to fold and only follow with the strongest hand.

 

What I said above is that when the opponent knows that you are observing him, he is probably performing, but many times he does not know that you are observing, and his reaction at this time is to express his true thoughts. Here is an example of such an unintentional slip-up.

 

Scenario: After the flop comes 3 spades. Three of your four opponents quickly raised the corner of their cards to look at them, then quickly put them down again.

 

Conclusion: These three people did not make a flush, and it is unlikely that they would have a trip or two pair. The person who didn't see the hole card is the only one who may have a flush. This tell is at least 95% accurate. Because when the flop comes out, they are eager to know their own hand strength, and often ignore that someone is observing them. If he makes a flush, he will often know it. If they have a set or two pair, they often know they don't have spades.

 

Another type of unintentional tell is to react in advance. Before the flop, when it is not your turn, you see that the card is 7-2o, and you unconsciously pick up the card and prepare to throw it away. Or after the flop, although you are on the button, but you have no right and no draw, the front position bets, and the middle position is thinking about it.

 

You know that the front position is a calling station, and you definitely cannot bluff, regardless of whether the middle position is calling. , raise or fold, you have to fold, so you use the discarded card to prepare to throw. On the surface, this kind of tell seems to do no harm to you, but in fact it is not. You give the person who is reacting additional information, and he also gets extra benefits.

 

According to the zero-sum principle on the card table, he gets benefits. Someone must be damaged. The only person who suffers the damage is you, and of course the people who have reacted before. The biggest damage to you is not in this hand, but in the future when you really have a hand, those observant opponents will not see your common "throwing away cards in advance" and will not give you so many actions, when they give you action, they are often sure to defeat you. This "throwing a tell in advance" is even more deadly in the game, because the tell in cash can also be compensated by factors such as position and later play. The game is often a blind steal, and a tell can directly declare the ownership of a pot.

 

Scenario 1: In the middle of the game, you are in the CO position with only 10 big blinds. All the cards are folded to you. Your hand is 32o, the worst hand in heads-up. But you see that both the button and the small blind have read the cards in advance, picked them up and made a gesture of throwing them. So you go all-in, and sure enough, they all fold, and the big blind groans and folds after a while.

 

Scenario 2: In the middle of the tourament, you are in the CO position with only 10 big blinds. and it's folded to you. Your card is K9o. This card is undoubtedly a all-in hand at this time. But you saw that Button had read the cards in advance and did not make any move to throw. Instead, he covered his cards with a chip. So you folded, Button raised, the small blind folded, the big blind went all-in, and Button quickly followed. bet, and beat the big blind's AJs with KK.

 

How to prevent it: Always look at your cards after the last player throw his cards , and get into the habit of doing this.

 

There is another type of tell in live poker that you may not notice, and that is the timing of the action. Some cards require little thought, while others require some thinking. If you only think when you need to think, and act immediately when you don't need to think, then you may have given away your mistakes.

 

Scenario: There are deep stacks on the spot, a early position loose player flat calls, you raise with AKo in the middle, cutoff snap call, everyone else folds, loose player call.

 

Three people enter the pot, and the flop comes out A64, two spades, loose player place a small bet, you raise, CO follows without thinking. What cards does CO have? He is almost certainly drawing, and given the low cards, a flush is much more likely than a straight. Because you have already expressed your attitude. You have an Ace and a big kicker. If he has an Ace, he will at least consider it before calling. If he has two pairs or three pairs, he will probably raise the bet because there is a high possibility of a draw on the card. Only when he has a draw, he will enter this state without thinking, because he knows that if the spade come, he will win, and if not, he will lose. The next decision is very simple, and he will never worry about the turn and river witn a weak Ace.

 

How to prevent it: No matter what cards you have, even if you absolutely want to throw them away, as long as you still have chips left (you don’t need to hide your card strength when considering whether to follow an all-in), you must wait at least a few seconds before taking action. This ensures that you don't reveal too many in your reaction time. At the same time, train yourself to speed up your reaction time when faced with difficult decisions, so that the two are as similar as possible.