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Joe Navarro is a former counterintelligence officer specializing in nonverbal communications and behavioral analysis with nine-time World Series of Poker Champion. Phil Hellmuth presents the next evolution in poker strategy - becoming a human lie detector at the tables. Success in poker is part luck, part maths, and part subterfuge. While the maths of poker has been refined over the past twenty years, the ability to read other players and keep your own "tells" in check has until now been mostly learned by instinct and practice. However by using Navarro's techniques illustrated with Hellmuth's examples, you will be able to decode and interpret other players nonverbal communication while concealing your own. You will essentially become a human lie detector and a feared player.
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PHIL HELLMUTH. is an internationally recognized professional poker play, nine-time World Series of Poker Champion and bestselling author of Play Poker Like the Pros. JOE NAVARRO, M.A., FBI (ret.). For 25 years, Joe Navarro, M.A., worked with the FBI, both as an agent and supervisor in the area of counterintelligence and counterterrorism handling complex multinational investigations. He is presently an adjunct faculty member at the FBI's Counterintelligence Division where he teaches behavioral analysis and nonverbal communications. He consults to the Department of Energy, the State Department, and the Institute for Defense Analysis, a Washington, D.C. based think tank. Mr. Navarro has taught intelligence analysis to both the law enforcement and intelligence communities
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Very interesting, clearly written information to enable you, the poker player, to make better judgements at the table based on what other players are doing, not saying.
Decide if a player is bluffing, or has a strong hand just by studying their movements, feet and facial expressions.
The writing style is easy to follow, its extremely readable, and the black and white photographs are clear and very useful in illustrating the various tells Joe Navarro is explaining.
Obviously, this book is not much use for online play, but for live play, its a great introduction to the world of tells and making money from other players unconscious actions at the table.
Only slight criticism is the inferior quality paper used in the printing of the book, but the content is pure gold.
Decide if a player is bluffing, or has a strong hand just by studying their movements, feet and facial expressions.
The writing style is easy to follow, its extremely readable, and the black and white photographs are clear and very useful in illustrating the various tells Joe Navarro is explaining.
Obviously, this book is not much use for online play, but for live play, its a great introduction to the world of tells and making money from other players unconscious actions at the table.
Only slight criticism is the inferior quality paper used in the printing of the book, but the content is pure gold.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Each book should be judge on its own merits. The content of this book should be taken as an overview. As with any system of tells, there are no defined ways of saying someone is bluffing otherwise no-one ever would and the fun part of the game would be taken away. What this book does is to tell you not about poker but to judge the overall body language by grouping actions as a whole.
I play live and online poker and being able to look at an opponent in those fleeting moments when a flop comes down and they give just an ounce of information can be priceless. I would definitely say that the information I've gained from this book has helped my game as I've been able to see a range of movements from movement of legs to slight pursing of the lips when before I'd have missed it and perhaps been deceived. In some cases I've used it to make big calls on players when I would normally have folded to find it was the right move and I have won a good stack of chips. Conversely, I've folded hands where I thought I was ahead, folded and saved chips in the process.
I am currently re-reading this book for the third time. The book isn't the longest but each read embeds the information in that bit more and you get flashbacks of not only your opponents doing some of these things but yourself as well! Remember that while you're trying to read your opponents, they're trying to read you too! By understanding what you are trying to see in someone else you learn to not do it yourself and give less information.
By no means is this book perfect. It's a little short in pages and the paper might be cheap but I'm not too fussed about paper quality. It does edge towards "memoirs of an ex-FBI agent" as well as the in-book advertising of Camp Hellmuth but the fact is that Phil Hellmuth has now won something like 11 bracelets and aside from the poker-brat reputation he has a real skill in reading people. The stories from Navarro's time in the FBI and Hellmuth's Camps serve to reinforce the idea of non-verbal behaviour and analysing the information and for you to categories what you've seen or heard and make judgements accordingly.
I have a few and "Mike Caro's Book of Tells" is getting dated despite some of the good stuff in there. I'd certainly recommend this book to go as part of your collection. There is not one book on the market which will cover all of poker effectively but this covers an area from which a lot of people can learn, which I am pleased to save I have.
I play live and online poker and being able to look at an opponent in those fleeting moments when a flop comes down and they give just an ounce of information can be priceless. I would definitely say that the information I've gained from this book has helped my game as I've been able to see a range of movements from movement of legs to slight pursing of the lips when before I'd have missed it and perhaps been deceived. In some cases I've used it to make big calls on players when I would normally have folded to find it was the right move and I have won a good stack of chips. Conversely, I've folded hands where I thought I was ahead, folded and saved chips in the process.
I am currently re-reading this book for the third time. The book isn't the longest but each read embeds the information in that bit more and you get flashbacks of not only your opponents doing some of these things but yourself as well! Remember that while you're trying to read your opponents, they're trying to read you too! By understanding what you are trying to see in someone else you learn to not do it yourself and give less information.
By no means is this book perfect. It's a little short in pages and the paper might be cheap but I'm not too fussed about paper quality. It does edge towards "memoirs of an ex-FBI agent" as well as the in-book advertising of Camp Hellmuth but the fact is that Phil Hellmuth has now won something like 11 bracelets and aside from the poker-brat reputation he has a real skill in reading people. The stories from Navarro's time in the FBI and Hellmuth's Camps serve to reinforce the idea of non-verbal behaviour and analysing the information and for you to categories what you've seen or heard and make judgements accordingly.
I have a few and "Mike Caro's Book of Tells" is getting dated despite some of the good stuff in there. I'd certainly recommend this book to go as part of your collection. There is not one book on the market which will cover all of poker effectively but this covers an area from which a lot of people can learn, which I am pleased to save I have.
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a short book (200 large print pages) and, as someone else pointed out, printed on VERY poor quality paper. There are huge amounts of repetition and waffle and, in all honesty the main points of the book could fit into a magazine article. As such, from a value for money point if nothing else, it is poor value.
The information it does contained is very simple and I'm sure anyone who has the slightest interest in poker `tells' will have heard it all before. His two major points seem to be "see if someone does something every time they bluff and watch for them to do it again - then you will know they are bluffing" and "when you bluff or bet for value always act the same way". Hardly going to set the table alight with information like that.
Also, on a more personal note, `Joe Navarro' isn't a poker pro, or even someone who seems to know a lot about the game. He is an `expert' in `non verbal communication' - he works for the FBI (and mentions this approximately twice every page, and sounds incredibly smug as he does so - "Once while questioning a guy in the middle east he kept looking at the floor so I knew he was lying...") and so the examples often have little clear link to the game. Phil Hellmuth pops up from time to time and when he isn't plugging "Camp Hellmuth" he say things like "Once I noticed that my opponent touched her nose when she was bluffing I cleaned up...". Don't expect in-depth real game examples from these two.
All in all I would not recommend this to anyone looking to improve their poker game - if you want to read a good book about tells check out Mike Caro for a start. This really strikes me as a rip-off cashing in on Hellmuths image when he cant be arsed to write a book about the subject himself.
The information it does contained is very simple and I'm sure anyone who has the slightest interest in poker `tells' will have heard it all before. His two major points seem to be "see if someone does something every time they bluff and watch for them to do it again - then you will know they are bluffing" and "when you bluff or bet for value always act the same way". Hardly going to set the table alight with information like that.
Also, on a more personal note, `Joe Navarro' isn't a poker pro, or even someone who seems to know a lot about the game. He is an `expert' in `non verbal communication' - he works for the FBI (and mentions this approximately twice every page, and sounds incredibly smug as he does so - "Once while questioning a guy in the middle east he kept looking at the floor so I knew he was lying...") and so the examples often have little clear link to the game. Phil Hellmuth pops up from time to time and when he isn't plugging "Camp Hellmuth" he say things like "Once I noticed that my opponent touched her nose when she was bluffing I cleaned up...". Don't expect in-depth real game examples from these two.
All in all I would not recommend this to anyone looking to improve their poker game - if you want to read a good book about tells check out Mike Caro for a start. This really strikes me as a rip-off cashing in on Hellmuths image when he cant be arsed to write a book about the subject himself.
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Great book of tells
Well, this is the most famous, up to date book about poker tells.
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Published 4 months ago by Ath K. Nikolopoulos
actually much much better than caro's
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Published on 25 May 2010 by W. D. Mitchell
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Published on 18 Mar 2008 by P. Garland
A little too obvious at times...
Not a bad book, but it doesnt contain a lot of surprising information. So if you're a social person you will find 70% of the book pretty obvious.
Published on 28 Jun 2007 by Rahman Shazzadur
Poker Gold!!!
Fantastic from start to finish and such an easy read. The examples are clear to follow and you can apply the techniques and advice immediately to both Poker and everyday life. Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2007 by Stuart Saunders
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