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  If you happened to walk in during the closing credits of the movie Beowulf, there are two things that you can be sure of. The first one is that you have just avoided wasting two hours of your life watching over processed, badly written, clich? of a film. The original writer of the poem would be well justified if he burst from his grave with a sword and expressed his displeasure with stabbing. The second certainty of coming in at the closing credits of a film is that there is no way that anyone can get a good read on the movie by seeing who the best boy or gaffer on a film was. The same holds true for people trying to figure out tells by studying their opponent when they get to the climactic river bet.

  By the time most players are at the river, they are so emotionally invested in the hand, and so focused that you will learn very little by studying their face and body. Unless your opponent is Erica Schoenberg and you are staring out of the sheer aesthetic joy she provides, give up on trying to figure tells out when the hand has progressed this far. Tells happen early, and the best strategy you can employ is to be observant when the hole cards are being dealt. For example, one gentleman who plays with some of the LaunchPoker writers is addicted to the act of texting. He will do this all throughout a hand. Whenever he is dealt some rather impressive hole cards, he will stop texting and study his cards for a few moments. This is also common with people who are eating, drinking, or scratching themselves in inappropriate places. The cards will suddenly occupy the totality of their attention, and they will stop what they are doing. This is one way to know that you are likely facing some fairly powerful hole cards.



  A common practice for a defensive lineman in the game of football is to look at the hands of an offensive lineman. If knuckles of the hand on the ground are white, you can bet a run play is coming. This is because the player has shifted his weight forward in anticipation of getting off the ball fast and into the pads of the defensive lineman. If his knuckles don't have that telltale white color, his weight is shifted in a manner that will allow him to back up quickly for pass blocking. Just like the lineman, the poker player's hands can give away a lot.



  Daniel Negreanu pointed out how looking at someone's hand can give away what they are holding. He wrote in his column, "Yet another tell can be spotted by the way players look at their own hole cards. Instead of looking directly at their cards, they'll squeeze them, just looking at the side of the cards. If they see three pips, for example, they'll know they've got a 6, 7, or an 8. If you notice someone habitually squeezing their cards, try to detect what their hand is by analyzing how much of their hole card is viewed. That may seem a little complicated, but it really does work."



  Most sane people would defer to his expertise on this topic.