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There used to be a telecommunications company in the United Kingdom that had the slogan, “It's good to talk,” and although they were only promoting their products what they did not realise was they were helping poker players to pick up on potential tells about their opponents!

In order to win the extra GSOP $100000 Betfair Poker is putting into the ring you are going to have to make some plays on your opponents to finish in those top three places and one way of doing so is to have reads on them. Obviously talking to someone whilst you are playing live poker is much easier and straight forward than when playing online, you can still utilise the chat box in order to extract extra information from your opponents.

Some online poker professionals advocate turning off the table chat when they are playing so that they do not become distracted from their game but doing so limits the information you can receive from it. A quick glance at the chat box once a player has suffered from a bad beat can soon tell you if a player is prone to going on tilt and if he is then you can use that to your advantage and show him your bluffs or continually raise and re-raise him until he breaks!

Also, some players will go out of their way to coach the table by letting them know their thought processes during a particular hand they have just played. What may have started off as a brag about winning a hand can quickly give you some insight into how they play strong hands or how they bet when they are bluffing!

Furthermore, you may be able to discover the skill level of your opponents by simply asking what stakes they usually play. Some players will be pleased to let the table know they won a satellite into this Betfair GSOP 6 event for a few dollars, which should give you some indication into their usual stakes, skill and bankroll levels, something that you can adjust your play to fit.

Table talk

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