How to Make a Good Poker Face?

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Make a good poker face, or expression of poker, is harder than you think when the weather is tense. It can be very difficult to contain your reactions (excitement or disappointment) in some situations, whether it's good or bad.

In this sense, i ask you a question: How to Make a Good Poker Face?

:):(:eek::mad::rolleyes::eek::cool::p
 
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Make a good poker face, or expression of poker, is harder than you think when the weather is tense. It can be very difficult to contain your reactions (excitement or disappointment) in some situations, whether it's good or bad.

In this sense, i ask you a question: How to Make a Good Poker Face?

:):(:eek::mad::rolleyes::eek::cool::p

Interesting question Acid -

First of all you said harder thank we think when it comes to the weather. Are you playing poker outside? Or are you referring to the whether the air conditioner is running in a particular poker room? :confused:

I feel like a poker face comes from experience. I have been playing live poker for about ten years and it started when I was 18 or 20 in Indian casinos. At first when I would hit a big hand or win a pot i would show a lot of emotion. I used to peer intently at the flop and then at opponents. Ive since practiced even how I reach for my chips. The key to me is establishing a pattern. The reason for this is consistency. If youre holding your chips in the same position, reaching with the same hand, and blank staring your opponents consistently - the only real worry you need to think about is your specific betting patterns. And by that I just mean sizing your bets correctly and consistently - or changing it in order to throw of your opponents.

To me im very robotic when I play now. I dont reach for chips or even hold my cards to fold until the action is on me. I peer intently at whichever opponent I think is going to give me the most trouble. The flop and other opponents from then on are just glances. I never look at my cards twice after being dealt. Its one and done.

Hope that provides some insight :D

Have a great day and best of luck at the tables -

Travis
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Make a good poker face, or expression of poker, is harder than you think when the weather is tense. It can be very difficult to contain your reactions (excitement or disappointment) in some situations, whether it's good or bad.

In this sense, i ask you a question: How to Make a Good Poker Face?

:):(:eek::mad::rolleyes::eek::cool::p
Read books on psychology, helped me)
 
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Years and years of playing will numb you so that your poker face becomes stoyic and neutral.
 
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I apparently always look angry at the tables , If when Im joking around. So I have a natural poker face.
 
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botox and xanax. AND don't look at your cards ;)
Lmao :D I'll put this thing into practice


But mot seriously, i try to keep a neutral face and have no emotion as soon as I enter the table. sometimes I send inverted signs but the most experienced players can detect it.
 
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Early on I repeatedly "observed" myself looking at and reacting to an average hand. I tried to pick up what my eyes did and what and where I looked, what happened to my brow, my smile, my hands, and things like that. Once I was confident I had a good idea of what I looked like to an opponent looking at an average hand, I memorized it, and then began to imitate myself. The hand I picked for my mental hand was Jx8x. Just before I would look at my hole cards I would tell my self that I was going to see Jx8x and I'm going to react like it's exactly that hand.

I eventually expanded it to the other streets. For the flop it was middle pair in my mind. No matter what falls, I would mentally tell myself "you're going to see that you flopped middle pair and act accordingly".

My goal was to always send out the same vibe. Most folks try to be stone faced, but that can be unnatural and you can sometimes pick up on differences between the "I've got a hand" stone face and the "I missed my draw" stone face because there's a moment where you're making a decision on how to act. I know before I look or before the flop hits and I've practiced a look that is absolutely natural for me.

It's not a stone face, but it's the same every time so I give nothing away.
 
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Interesting question Acid -

First of all you said harder thank we think when it comes to the weather. Are you playing poker outside? Or are you referring to the whether the air conditioner is running in a particular poker room? :confused:

I feel like a poker face comes from experience. I have been playing live poker for about ten years and it started when I was 18 or 20 in Indian Casinos. At first when I would hit a big hand or win a pot i would show a lot of emotion. I used to peer intently at the flop and then at opponents. Ive since practiced even how I reach for my chips. The key to me is establishing a pattern. The reason for this is consistency. If youre holding your chips in the same position, reaching with the same hand, and blank staring your opponents consistently - the only real worry you need to think about is your specific betting patterns. And by that I just mean sizing your bets correctly and consistently - or changing it in order to throw of your opponents.

To me im very robotic when I play now. I dont reach for chips or even hold my cards to fold until the action is on me. I peer intently at whichever opponent I think is going to give me the most trouble. The flop and other opponents from then on are just glances. I never look at my cards twice after being dealt. Its one and done.

Hope that provides some insight :D

Have a great day and best of luck at the tables -

Travis
BCP - horseshoebhole

It's always good to hear other points of view. Thanks!
 
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And why do I behave like that anyway, I am still me in all situations.
 
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Just think of the large amount that is deducted for taxes on a big win. That should help with the blank look that you are looking for.
 
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you are worried about your face, but, in reality, you should be worried about your entire body

the way your hands are positioned (crunched up,tense, shaky?)

are you sitting upright and leaning forward?

leaning back, chatting with the waitress?

are you feet jittery and moving all around because you are excited you just got dealt a big hand?

et cetera
 
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I do not make any poker face, it's just me all the time.

I think they are particular things of each one and I am very funny when I see people covering their faces

 
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Make a good poker face, or expression of poker, is harder than you think when the weather is tense. It can be very difficult to contain your reactions (excitement or disappointment) in some situations, whether it's good or bad.

In this sense, i ask you a question: How to Make a Good Poker Face?

:):(:eek::mad::rolleyes::eek::cool::p




I don't use to play a lot of live poker, but when a good hand comes to me and it combines well with the Flop, I try to think of my mother-in-law.

I hate my mother-in-law and I never smile when she comes to my house, I'm cold like an iceberg. :D:D:D

It works well for me, so you could think of something similar.
 
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I am very pleased with your question and I imagined many emulating the poker face. Some are already born with that gift. In Argentina there are actors who have a poker face for example to demonstrate any emotion :p:p:p
 
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Years and years of playing will numb you so that your poker face becomes stoyic and neutral.
Stoic and neutral are no good, players see that all the time, you got to confuse them and get their mind off of the poker hand with a good poker face.

This is my poker face.

What would you think if you saw this staring right at you when you have a big decision to make? That's a question for everybody.






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Stoic and neutral are no good, players see that all the time, you got to confuse them and get their mind off of the poker hand with a good poker face.

This is my poker face.

What would you think if you saw this staring right at you when you have a big decision to make? That's a question for everybody.







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Lol. If I looked across the table to you.... Looking like that... I'd quit the game and run to an opthamoligist. Sorry all, I've gone color blind. I can only see in black and white. Or I'm really tripping. Either way. No more poker today. Hopefully, if I can see, i'll c ya tomorrow . :smokin:
 
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Lol. If I looked across the table to you.... Looking like that... I'd quit the game and run to an opthamoligist. Sorry all, I've gone color blind. I can only see in black and white. Or I'm really tripping. Either way. No more poker today. Hopefully, if I can see, i'll c ya tomorrow . :smokin:
Apart from the black and white trip, if that seriously was someones poker face all the time, would you or anyone be able to get a read from it? Something like this would cause more confusion than being stoic and natural.

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I don't use to play a lot of live poker, but when a good hand comes to me and it combines well with the Flop, I try to think of my mother-in-law.

I hate my mother-in-law and I never smile when she comes to my house, I'm cold like an iceberg. :D:D:D


It works well for me, so you could think of something similar.

Absolutely hilarious...before I ever played live poker, I worried that I would have tells. My ears tend to turn red when my blood pressure rises...but then the question would be; did my blood pressure go up because I had a great hand, or a lousy one? After that, I didn't worry about it. There are so many other facets of my game that I need to work on that my game face was inconsequential. Besides, when I am in a new poker room, with totally unknown players, I am usually a bit nervous, so it's OK that I look nervous.
 
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Make a good poker face, or expression of poker, is harder than you think when the weather is tense. It can be very difficult to contain your reactions (excitement or disappointment) in some situations, whether it's good or bad.

In this sense, i ask you a question: How to Make a Good Poker Face?

:):(:eek::mad::rolleyes::eek::cool::p


I make sure to cover my mouth as much as possible. Making a good poker face is giving out as little info as possible.
 
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