Pokertox: Botox for Poker Players?

According to Huffington Post, a doctor of aesthetic medicine in New York, Dr. Jack Berdy, has just introduced “Pokertox,” a program of Botox and facial fillers designed to enhance a player’s “poker face,” their ability to hide any sign of facial emotion that might tip off other card players on whether they have a good…

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Facial Expressions as Poker Tells

By Paul D. from www.pokerjunkie.com Reading tells in poker is as much science as it is art form. While many poker pros will tell you that physical tells mean very little at the highest levels of the games, for the everyday poker player, they can still provide a valuable resource. There are a few common microexpressions (or facial expression)…

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Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 9 “Fold Equity” Comments

This week’s episode involved gambling. We get asked all the time about the possibility of training poker players, and I think that learning to read micro and subtle expressions of emotion, and other nonverbal behaviors, would be a great skill to add to any poker player’s skill set. That having been said, however, I also…

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