When confronted with stressful situations, such as those in a high stakes poker game, the limbic brain prepares the body to freeze, fight, or flee. In later chapters, Navarro goes on to detail how these limbic responses manifest themselves in instinctive body movements. These chapters, which form the core of the book, contain numerous photographs and written descriptions of the tells he has in mind.
Perhaps more importantly, Navarro always returns to the physiological motivation for a particular tell, which presumably will aid in interpreting not only that exact movement but also others of a similar kind. The insights he offers promise to pay off well beyond the specific information he provides in the book.
Still, it would have been nice to see more individual tells covered in detail in a page book. Some of the other content, such as the section of physiology and the section on how to avoid giving off tells of your own, is well worth including.
Indeed, much of the value of this book comes from the perspective from outside of poker that Navarro is able to bring to his interpretation of tells.
He establishes context for the phenomena he discusses by drawing connections to such disparate subjects as the behavior of juries during courtroom trials, the responses of Mission Control to the Apollo 13 crisis, and his own experience interrogating witnesses and suspects. Quite brilliant--despite Hellmuth's participation. Over the past two years, Navarro has applied his formidable intelligence and relevant experience to poker, and the result is a book that every player should read.
His specialty when he was an FBI agent was on nonverbal communication and behavior analysis, and his insights into how people respond in interview situations are directly applicable to the poker table. Navarro met Annie Duke while both were guests on a TV show about humans and lying, and it was her ability to see through other people that got him thinking about poker. After articulating the importance of observation, Navarro explains some of the physiology and even the evolutionary biology of tells.
How does this apply to the poker table? The observant player will notice this, and use it to help make a decision. Develop a system for looking at your hole cards and making your bets, and never vary Hellmuth is superb at this, as is Chris Ferguson.
And tells are remarkably unhelpful when dealing with players who are clueless. The material in this book is insightful and useful. Feb 15, Adam rated it it was amazing. This book has probably made me a few thousand dollars, and counting. It was clunky, focused on 7-card stud, and told us mostly what we already knew.
Welcome to the 21st century of poker. Navarro completely dissects the player sitting across from you and helps you not only gain that edge of reading his cards invaluable in itself but also lets you focus on what tells you are broadc This book has probably made me a few thousand dollars, and counting. Navarro completely dissects the player sitting across from you and helps you not only gain that edge of reading his cards invaluable in itself but also lets you focus on what tells you are broadcasting.
Don't be put off by the appearance of Phil Hellmuth on the cover. His influence and voice is limited to an introduction. Jul 23, Glen Demers added it.
Good information if you play live poker, Mike Caro's book of Tells is getting a little long in the tooth. I didn't care for Phil Hellmuth's habit of inserting text about how great he is.
Still, I think it's the only book out there about lie detection aimed at poker, that alone makes it essential for any serious live player. Aug 03, Will Stevenson rated it really liked it. This is a good introduction book to playing the player and not your cards.
The book introduces you to the subtle movements that may indicate the relative strength of your opponents hand. It is a book that should be read and reread if you want to make money playing poker. Aug 28, Laurie rated it liked it. I think my regular poker game pals are going to have fresh reason to lament. Books decoding body language are catnip to all poker players, and this is a good one.
Oct 31, Glenn Yu rated it liked it. This book was an update to my mental model of how someone ought to spend his time learning the game. Navarro identified so many tells that I am definitely on the hook for exhibiting, and I'm glad to have a general framework for identifying tells in others.
Disregarding the conceptual vagueness of that framing, I would venture to guess that that before reading this book, my intuition was This book was an update to my mental model of how someone ought to spend his time learning the game. Disregarding the conceptual vagueness of that framing, I would venture to guess that that before reading this book, my intuition was the complete opposite.
After having read the book, however, I am slightly closer to Navarro. I digress. My intuition is that this book will not be particularly helpful to inexperienced players of the game. For these players, I think time will be much better spent getting a grasp of basic strategy. If you don't understand basic strategy, you will never understand how to use these tells correctly. At the end of the day, if you're in position on the flop with JJ on 10 9 4 rainbow, you should c-bet regardless of the tell you read from your opponent.
I think the use case of this book is mostly in higher level games, where people are not leaking through unsound, exploitable strategies and are approximating game theory optimal play.
At these higher levels, there are diminishing returns to getting theoretically better at the game such that huge gains can be made by picking up small tells in big spots. While the book started off strong, I was very annoyed by how poorly organized this book was. Rather than beginning with first principles and then systematically discussing specific tells, the book is organized in a series of increasingly redundant chapters. That said, I'm excited to employ some of Navarro's tips next time I play live poker.
Jul 09, Joe rated it it was amazing. This is the only book I read on tells but after reading, I was actually able to see some reps pop up here and there and they seemed to be fairly accurate. Very informative! I just happened to dislike the structure of the book and its repetitiveness. Jul 03, Thomas Culkin rated it it was amazing. A must read for any poker player. Of all the poker books I have ever read, and based upon a decade of law-enforcement training and experience, there is absolutely no better book to prepare your mind and perception for the shenanigans that goes on at the poker table, and in all of life as you interact one-on-one or in small groups.
Specific and uninhibited, based upon what the body and mind cannot control Jun 22, Hussain Elius rated it liked it Shelves: psychology , books , non-fiction , games. If you have, however, read books on Body Language before mention goes to The Definitive Book of Body Language , you won't find anything new here.
Mar 19, Erin Parisien rated it it was amazing. Yes, imagine that, Erin reading a poker book, I know. I've found it incredibly useful on and off of the felt. You get a great sense of body language, and let's face it, who wouldn't benefit from learning about that?! Dec 11, Quinn rated it really liked it. Fantastic book! It's a pretty quick read with lots of really good, to the point body language reading book.
I can't wait to try and figure out my family member's tells over the game table during Christmas. Aug 29, Raphael Clayette rated it it was amazing Shelves: poker. Very interesting book about tells. I am a poker novice but Joe Navarro seems to know what he's talking about, despites some bad critics about this non-pokerpro author. So it is an interesting books for someone on the path to tell reading. Jul 09, William Herbst rated it it was ok.
I found this to be fairly unhelpful and underwhelming. It did not translate into any better reads at the table for me. Apr 15, Erik rated it did not like it.
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