Posted on 05/20/2018 9:48:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
Poker is a game of odds. There are high-probability hands and low-probability hands. As one would expect, lower-probability hands, such as a full house, trump – are stronger than – higher-probability hands. The player with the stronger hand wins over the player holding the weaker hand.
Or not?
In poker, or any number of other games where human beings play not just against the odds, but against each other, and no player knowing what cards the other players hold, a weak hand can, in fact, beat a higher hand if the player with the weaker hand is able to trick the other player into thinking the weak player's hand is stronger than it really is – in other words, a bluff.
In poker, it is not enough to read one's cards; one must also read the other players.
The best poker players constantly are on the lookout for clues in the opposing players' behavior for signs that reveal the opposing players' true position. They look for "tells":
We don't ever know for sure how good or bad another player's hand is, often until it's too late. But ... we sometimes receive clues from other players, based on changes in their betting patterns or their physical demeanour[.] ...
Poker tells that may indicate a strong hand
• Fluid speech.
• Shaking hands.
• Full relaxed lips.
• A full, ear to ear, relaxed smile.
• Eyes open, not blinking. ...
Poker tells that may indicate a weak hand
• Incoherent, forced, high pitched, slow, broken, or unnatural speech.
• Holding breath and not moving.
• Putting chips into the pot with great force.
• Staring right at you. (Strength means weakness.)
These are just a few of many tells that a shrewd poker player will look for in the other players' eyes, faces, mannerisms, method of play, etc.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
” Obama’s excluding Israel from his list of “closest allies” is a major “tell”: without explicitly saying so, Obama is telling the world he does not consider Israel one of our closest allies.”
“Regardless of anything Barack Obama said, says, or may say in the future, the JCPOA’s purpose was never to reduce, let alone remove, the Iranian threat to “Israel and its neighbors” or to prevent the Persian state from building a nuclear weapon. The JCPOA’s purpose was to remove the sanctions that, remember, Obama opposed and threatened to veto even before the JCPOA, and to appease, enable, and empower Iran.
Obama’s tells prove it.”
Barack Obama: “Don’t call my bluff!”
Obama couldn’t win a hand at poker if you spotted him three aces.
Kenyans are not noted as good poker players.
Who cares about Obama?
95% of tells in poker only become apparent when the stakes have been raised and when the players are in a stress-duress phase.
We’ll consider the Authors is talking no limit poker, where one can shove everything in when it’s their turn to act.
In this type of poker game certain hands have no value, you toss them into the muck. No tells are useful at this point. Tells only become useful when everybody in the pot will eventually have to commit or submit.
The only time I remember where Obama was caught bluffing with the red line in Syria.
Obama was a very weak player. Almost afraid of his own shadow. Folding that ‘red line’ hand in Syria was the worst play I’ve ever seen.
Been watching a lot of Maverick lately....a GREAT show to watch if you are into playing cards.
Good article. But seriously dumb ‘tell’ analogy.
You can be safe
By just taking the opposite viewpoint
Or undoing
Everything this loser Muslim faggot did or said
And I’m trying to be nice
Not nice. Hang em high as a TRAITOR
“Sometimes nothing can be a really cool hand.”
I would wear sunglasses and act weird or stilted at all times so no one could tell if I were bluffing or not.
C’mon, DC. Haven’t you ever heard of Nairobi Slim?
I forget the topic, but I remember when Obama was berating the congress and famously said "do not call my bluff". What a moron.
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