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Being Emotionless During a Hand

Example 1: Some time ago in a live tournament I was involved in a hand with an opponent. This opponent was a friendly player when not in a hand but emotionless during a hand. Time stood still after he made his decision to bet. To my best attempts I could not get any reaction from this player and had to rely only on math and analysis. I ended up folding my hand and not risk half my stack.

I feel my instincts on players is usually dead on. I read well because I am intraspective to my own emotions and tells. This player's lack of emotions blinding my instincts completely. He took out half of my poker skills just by his simple non-action. I learned a valuable lesson that day and used this tactic ever since.

Example 2: I have discoverd that by using an emotionless face you are less prone to being called, especially preflop. This is very important as you gain more chips without risk. During a live tournament I noticed a decent player limp in under the gun, I was next to act with a pair of 99 and shortstacked so I took a 20 seconds to think about the pot and knew if I pushed it would be enough for the 1st player to fold, so I did. I sat there emoitionless and motionless. The player on the button looked at his hand and started to debate. This took over 2 minutes of time while he decided what to do. I was bombarded with questions and stares. All I thought about was what's for dinner after the tournament staring into space as if in a trance. Both players ended up folding but talked about their hands. One player had AJo, the other AQo. I gained 50% more chips with no risk. The statue like stance intimidated both players into folding, I am sure of it. The longer he took for a decision the more he looked like he was folding. When wondering around in the dark eventually you get scared. I ended up in 35th place out of 130 players.

Example 3: At another live tournament I built a shortstack up to chip leader by the final table being uncontested in every preflop hand I played. My emotionless stance was used in every situation when I was shortstacked, and in every occurance my opponents struggled with decisions but eventually folded. Gaining chips without risk allowed me to play more hands and steal more pots later in the tournament when I could afford it, I placed 3rd of 130 netting a nice profit. Again it is difficult to make a call when your gut tells you nothing. Sometimes a player makes a wrong call looking for a tell in their opponents. I would prefer to win all the small pot 100% of the time then try and win a few big pots 66% of the time. All a player needs is to be outdrawn once to be out of the tournament.

In the Past: I used to not be concerned about what I did when I went all in or made a raise. I was just myself, talking and joking at the table. I was called a lot more often and often incorrectly by my opponents. Most situations when you are all in it is a coin flip or 65%/35%. Eventually you will lose unless you are very lucky. Now I would rather win a smaller pot 100% of the time uncontested than risk everything on a chance I lose it all.

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