Do you really need to be playing bricks-and-mortar poker to be able to spot a tell? Carl Sampson doesn’t think so…

Whenever you play live poker, you will – if you are skilled enough – be able to pick up on certain tells by certain players. Many professional players who ply their trade in a bricks-and-mortar poker environment base their entire game on spotting and exploiting tells. But most people seem to believe that playing poker in an online environment eliminates being able to pick up on these tells. Well, they are wrong. There are many kinds of tells in poker, and they do not necessarily have to be visual, either. It’s true that most of the tells that players give off in an online game can also be picked up in a live game, and that the same is not true in reverse. But there certainly are tells can be picked up by glaring at the screen.

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