The subject of online poker tells comes up a lot, and I don’t think that there is anything definitive that is known. At least not so far.
Some players say that acting instantly means that the player has a good hand, so taking a while to make a raise can then mean that the player also has a good hand but doesn’t want to give it away by acting instantly!
Hmmm. Well, acting instantly can also mean that the player is playing on more than one table, or is doing something else on the internet at the same time as playing poker, and may have used the instant play check boxes that are available on all online poker room software.
And taking a while to act can mean that the player simply has a slow connection, or is distracted momentarily, or is indeed playing more than one game but isn’t using the ‘tell-tale’ in-turn buttons.
I think any tell you get will be on a specific player that you have been watching and maybe making notes on. BIG POKER TIP use the note taking software that is available at a lot of online poker rooms.
Any read you can get on a player that you have a bit of experience with may be valuable within a specific session, but I would be wary of thinking that you can mark a player as ‘always bluffs’ or ‘raising out of position with nuts’ or similar. Players that are that easy to get a read on won’t be around for too long anyway.
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