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New “Live” Games Help With Poker Tells

By launchpoker, Dec 17, 2005

Online poker has proven to be very profitable and successful for both players and the poker rooms who host them, but one glaring omission in the process has always been poker tells; or rather, the lack of tells. When playing against an online oppnent it is extremely difficult to pick up tells, although learning a vitual player’s style of play is not only possible, but critical to success. Pokerhost.com, however, hopes to reunite reading tells with poker for the online game.


Along with partner RIAM, pokerhost.com will be offering a service where they will provide players with microphones and webcams, allowing online players to literally see the faces and read the body language of their opponents. This service comes with built in safeguards to prevent obscene and other inappropriate behavior, and requires broadband Internet. They will charge around $50 per month.