While playing poker online, many players find it hard to distinguish online “tells” as they are unable to see the visual or audible cues which often indicate the “tell”. For this reason, many established poker players have created guides to online poker play and guides that can help an individual to determine an online “tell”.
Here are some ways that you can learn to distinguish an online “tell” – without spending hours scouring these poker guides that have been created:
· Look for betting patterns and changes in the bets which are being made by players. Betting is one of the most effective tells while playing online poker and therefore searching for changes of patterns in betting is an effective way to determine whether the player is bluffing, or the value of the cards the player is holding.
· Use changes in chat to determine whether the player has a high value hand. This is an effective way to use the chat system while playing the game of poker.
· Changes in the time that it takes the player to make a bet, check a bet or even raise is a way to determine a ‘tell’ while playing online poker and is an effective way to determine the value of the opponents hand.