“Even the best of the best need help. Tiger Woods, the best golfer in the world, has eight different coaches – while they aren’t better than he is, they each help him see what he may be missing, making him even more dangerous on the course,” says Sam Chauhan. Chauhan is a masterful mindset coach who will show you how to break through all the barriers on your way to poker stardom.

When he was nineteen years old, Chauhan’s interest in understanding why people do what they do led him to study the mindset technologies. Sam used these skills to help him succeed in business. He has a unique ability to build conscious and subconscious rapport with anyone, making him a valuable asset to individuals and businesses alike. Chauhan has quickly become a highly sought after speaker, recently speaking at an event with Deepak Chopra and Ben Stein. He is also the author of the bestselling book Mind’s Power Unleashed.

Today Chauhan is a renowned mindset coach for celebrities, professional athletes, Fortune 500 CEOs, and poker players. He is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-linguistic Programming, Subliminal Persuasive Linguistics, Unconscious Suggestions, Ericksonian Patterns, Physiological Readings, and Muscle Readings.

Chauhan uses these skills to teach poker players how to create a powerful poker mindset for tournaments or cash games. To prevent them from going on tilt. To deal with a bad beat. To get opponents to put them on the wrong hand. Chauhan is one of the most sought after mindset coaches in the world. He helps people break through barriers and helps them achieve their maximum potential and control their mind in the toughest of situations.

After first watching poker about fi ve years ago, right around the same time the entire poker boom was taking off, Chauhan quickly saw how his mindset approach would be a perfect fit for poker. “As I started watching, I just loved thinking about the game and reading the players’ body language,” says Chauhan. One particular scene caught his attention – it was one of Mike Matusow’s blowups, in particular the 2004 Main Event when his A-K was all in against A-Q and his opponent spiked a queen. “When I saw Mike begin to cry after he lost that hand, it hit me how important this game is to so many people. Any time you are that emotional about something, you tend to have a real challenge with dealing with your internal mindset. Usually upon blowing up or getting upset, nine out of ten times you will go on tilt. That’s where I come in. When those situations play out, after learning some of my teachings, you will be able to get back on track and refocus.”

Chauhan’s wisdom will also help you deal with the internal conflicts you face when it’s time to make a big decision. He has seen many players second-guess their moves and end up making the wrong choices. They struggle with the decision-making process. To illuminate this point, Chauhan shared a fascinating study performed with a number of highly skilled chess players, some of whom would take hours to make one move. Matches were set up between the players with no time restraints. The event took a few days to finish. The following week they invited the same chess players to play in the same matchups. This time they set a thirty-second time limit on each move. The amazing result was that the outcomes were exactly the same. They also found that people who were making decisions quicker won a higher percentage of time. It seems that going with your gut does pay off.

“Most people’s ego and pride stops them from being the best. The definition of pride is that it is a perception that you create to feel better about yourself. If it’s a perception it does not exist. My job is to make players see what they don’t see, make them hear what they don’t want to hear, and make them feel what they don’t want to feel. If you keep doing the same thing you will get the same results you have been getting. Only way you grow is by being uncomfortable. That is my job as a mindset coach. You can’t control everything in your life but you can control what something means to you. You have to be your own biggest fan in everything you do. Don’t give anyone the power to intimidate you. If you believed you were the best it would not matter what anyone says or what happens in your life because you would have the mental edge to deal with anything, which would give you all the power in the world to succeed.” Chauhan adds that this is just as important in poker as it is in life, stating that the edge professional poker players have is not as big as most of their opponents give them credit for. “Amateur poker players, when they sit down with a professional poker player, automatically think to themselves that they can’t win, or will need to get lucky to win. This is a major mistake. If you go into a poker game with a belief that you are the best, or that you can succeed no matter whom the opponents are, you eliminate a lot of the edge the professionals have.”

Mindset plays such a prominent role in everything we do. According to Chauhan, before the four-minute mile was run, the runner imagined it in his head. Chauhan also works with MMA fighters like Dean Lister to control their adrenaline. “These fighters train so hard and their body is conditioned to fight three full rounds, yet when they get into the ring they are spent after two minutes. This is because they begin to subconsciously release their adrenaline too early, thereby draining them.” Sam anchors these fighters to be able to consciously control this adrenaline so it can be saved for the entire match.

Sam will be hosting the first ever, one day Poker Mindset Academy on December 4, 2009 at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. Reserve your Spot Today!

This article originally appeared in the January 2009 Issue of Bluff Magazine.

Mindset don’ts:

Don’t drink the night before a tournament. (A few glasses of wine is fine, but don’t get drunk.)

Don’t pull an all-nighter before a tournament.

Don’t allow negative thoughts before or during play.

Don’t lose your focus.

Mindset dos:

Do drink lots of water.

Do work out before a tournament.

Do bring a healthy snack to boost your energy, like some cucumbers with lemon (instead of chocolate).

Do affirmations to get yourself in the proper positive state before the tournament.

Do wear a rubber band on your wrist to get rid of any negative thoughts that pop up.

What makes someone a pro? If poker was an Olympic sport how would you train for it?

How many hours would you practice? (Read books, watch video, etc.)

Would you eat healthier to get more energy during tournaments?

Would you work out to get yourself in shape for the grueling hours?

Would you work on your mindset?

Would each of these things help you play better poker? The obvious answer is YES!

Inner stability is something all poker players should strive for. Many people ride an emotional rollercoaster – up one day and down another. This is a sign that they lack emotional control. Emotional control is a necessary facet of inner stability, and inner stability is vital to a healthy and stable mindset. Inner stability means you won’t be affected when you get beat on the river. You will not go on tilt because you know you played the hand as well as you could have. Imagine possessing the knowledge that you can’t be put on tilt or have your mindset affected regardless of what happens at your table or in your life. That is a powerful feeling. You can’t always control what happens in your life or what happens in poker. You can control what it means to you. That is the power of inner stability. Your external environment will always be unstable but you can ensure that your mindset never wavers.

To create inner stability you must remember situations where you were challenged and you prevailed. Take a few minutes to go back to the moment when you overcame the challenge. See, hear, and feel the moment. When you perform mental exercises like this you increase your confidence and improve your emotional control. It is easier for the brain to deal with a challenge that it knows it has overcome in the past. Even if the challenge is not exactly the same, the feelings that you get from recalling your triumphant moments will bolster your current efforts.

I coach a lady named Donna Lawton who started to play poker not too long ago. She decided to enter a No Limit event at the WSOP this year. 2095 people registered for the event and Donna, who had never played a major tournament before, made the money and placed 162nd. Donna, while inexperienced, had an edge over many of her opponents: her mindset. She believed she was the best even though it was her first time playing at the WSOP. During the tournament, she did not allow her mindset to be affected by the outcome of certain hands. She recalled the challenges she has faced and overcome throughout her life and believed that she would be successful. And she was.

If you want your game to improve, you have to strengthen your mindset. You cannot allow it to be affected by outcomes that are beyond your control. If you do make a mistake at the table, you must accept the mistake and commit yourself to learning from it so that you do not repeat it. If you believe that you will overcome the shortcomings in your game and you make a concerted effort to learn from your errors, then you will prevail. You can’t have self-doubt, internal conflicts, and insecurities if you’re aiming for inner stability.

See you at the final table.

This article by Sam Chauhan appeared in the August 2009 issue of Bluff Magazine.

Be part of the first ever WSOP Academy Poker Mindset Academy hosted by Sam Chauhan on December 4th, 2009 at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.

Poker Mindset Coach Sam Chauhan leading a seminar at the WSOP Academy

Get Rid of Limiting Beliefs

The first step in getting ready for a tournament is getting rid of your limiting beliefs. Those are beliefs that limit you from moving forward. When you look at the word “belief” in the middle it says “lie”. Most beliefs are lies. That’s really hard to tell someone because the defi nition of a belief is something you are certain about. If you are certain about something you believe it to be true. In order to adjust your mindset you need to be consciously aware that some of your beliefs might not be reality. You will need to identify your limiting beliefs, accept that they are not reality, and move past them.

So how do you accept that something you are certain is true might not actually be true? Try to think about some beliefs you once had that you found out were not actually true. For example, a few years ago they told us that Pluto is no longer considered a planet. I know when I went to school Pluto was a planet. Just recently we were told that children under five should not be given cough medicine. I know when I was a child I was given cough medicine. See? Beliefs can (and do) change all the time.

Beliefs Define your Game

In poker your beliefs define your game. If you hold limiting beliefs they will sabotage your chances of winning a tournament. For example, some of limiting beliefs you can have in poker are:

I am not good enough. I’m not competitive because I can’t calculate all of the odds in my head. I don’t know enough to play in this tournament. The players at this table are better than me. I am going to play conservative so I can win.

I don’t care if this is your first tournament or 100th. You have to go into every tournament feeling that you are the best. Why would you give a psychological advantage to any player by telling yourself that he or she is better than you? Superstars are created after they win a tournament. That could be you. Many people believe that to be the best player you need to be able to quickly calculate odds in your head. I was recently speaking with Kenny Tran and he told me he goes by gut. Whenever he goes against his gut, he loses. He does not consistently calculate odds in his head. As Kenny proves, you can succeed without being able to calculate all of the odds in your head.

Some players believe that if they play the most conservative they will win. You can’t be afraid to take a chance. Research does show that your gut feeling is correct more often than when you overthink the decision you have to make. What some might call gut feeling or intuition is actually signals from our brain. It is a phenomenon we are still trying to understand. Limiting beliefs can be self-fulfi lling. Instead, we as players need to have empowering beliefs. For example:

I will be one of the best poker players in the world. Playing poker consistently will make me a better player. I will not get intimidated by any player. I will come back from being short-stacked. I will win.

Beliefs Give you a Mental Edge

These beliefs will give you a mental edge on your opponents. Write them down on 3×5 cards and keep looking at them and saying them to yourself until it becomes second nature to you and you truly believe. Many people feel that it is tough not to have negative thoughts. The great news is you can get rid of negative thoughts within a few seconds. The easiest way to rid your mind of negative thoughts is by putting a rubber band around your wrist. Each time you have a negative thought pull back the rubber band and let it go. This way your mind will shift its focus to the pain in your wrist. It will be a physical reminder to think of something positive to focus on rather than dwell on your negative thought.

We can all change

The most important thing to understand is that we can all change if we know what we want to change and how to change it. The psychology behind change focuses on four steps between lacking a skill and being a master of it. To make a permanent change, these are the steps a person will go through:

Unconscious Incompetence: The person is unaware he or she is lacking skill Conscious Incompetence: The person becomes aware he or she is lacking skill. Conscious Competence: Person starts to perform skill consistently at will. Unconscious Competence: The skill becomes automatic or second nature.

Unconscious Competence is the key of becoming a superstar. Anyone can change if they put their mind to it.

Stay positive and Avoid Tilt

Another challenge most players have is going on tilt. Being on tilt is sign of having a weak mindset. A perfect example was at the final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker. Dennis Phillips and Ivan Demidov both made moves that you only make out of desperation. This means that their mindset was, “I am probably not going to win this,” but they went all in on cards they should have not been all in on. Then you look at the match from the WPT World Championship between Gus Hansen and David Chiu. Gus had a six to one chip advantage against David. David made a strong comeback and beat Gus. David did not go on tilt. He stayed positive and played a good, solid game. When you are on tilt you have given up your A-game and are just hoping to get lucky.

Having a powerful mindset when you play a tournament is usually the difference between being in the money and busting out early. To not get caught up playing on tilt, focus on a time where you were behind and you came back and won something. See yourself, hear yourself, and feel yourself coming back. You will feel more confi dent by thinking that. That will make you have the alertness and the motivation you will need to win. You are not out until you have no chips. Keep going forward.

Stay Positive and Deal with Bad Beats

Dealing with bad beats is something all poker players have to go through. The amazing thing is when someone gets a bad beat they actually feel down about themselves. Some people will take antidepressants after a bad beat. Some walk out of the tournament and start playing cash games. The best thing to do is to go home and come back another day. Take the time to eliminate your negative thoughts before returning to the table. The truth is that there is no such thing as a bad beat in poker. A bad beat is when you have a life-ending disease the moment you’re born. That’s a bad beat. You just lost a poker tournament. There will be many more.

I hope these mindset tips help take your poker game to the next level!

If there’s anything I hope you’ve learned from this column, it is that our bodies are constantly transmitting information. From the movements of every part of our body, we give away critical information. Of course, that includes our torso and how we sit. Our brain is constantly assessing the world around us; running in the background like good software. If you are not careful, it will react to your hole cards and the community cards in ways you may not intend.

Sitting still during a long session is mission: impossible. An hour, sure, however, once you’re a couple levels deep into the second day of a tournament, your body gets restless and needs pacifying through stretching, leaning, adjusting, etc.

We try to comfort ourselves by moving into different positions and obviously during a night of play you’re going to change your posture. You slouch, sit up straight, and lean back into your chair, but honestly, are you really thinking about how you sit? Consciously, probably not, but your brain, especially your limbic brain, never takes a break. It is always looking out for you.

Your subconscious mind determines how engaged you will be in a situation. It analyzes and transmits how far away you will sit from the other people around you, without you doing the calculus. It will assess any violations of your space and will call you to action and alert you to adjust in one way or another. For example, if the person next to you places his iPod too close to your “space,” your subconscious will tell you to move slightly away, stare at him, or ask him to move over. In any case, you will react. If you don’t believe me, just try it. Move your drink over into someone else’s space and watch what happens to their torso.

During a recent trip to Las Vegas I had the privilege of playing with Sam Simon and a few of his friends. One of the players in the game is a famous poker player and as always, I will keep her anonymous. As expected, she had a huge chip lead over the rest of the table. During one hand the entire table was talking and suddenly, after the turn card came out, I noticed that she was talking to the rest of us from a much lower place than she had just been. After the card was placed on the felt, her body sank down. Her torso went from upright to slouched. I wasn’t in the hand and it was a friendly game, so I said, “Someone is hurting right now,” while looking at her.

Sure enough, she saw the light of day as her low pair was beaten by a fl ush. Unfortunately, it took her until the river to let the hand go. After it was over she asked me what I saw. “Suddenly, your body just sank in reaction to that card,” I said. “Was it that obvious?” she asked. “It was to me and it will be to everyone else after I write article about it.”

It was amazing to note that even the best in the game have diffi culty recognizing such a simple tell. Our posture, whether we sit up or suddenly buckle over, is governed by our limbic brain. We do it all day long – we just don’t notice it. When someone receives good news their internal excitement is refl ected in their posture in a matter of degrees or inches. When you hear bad news, your shoulders sink and your posture shrinks. This is something psychiatrists have known for a very long time and look for in patients to see if they are making progress, especially when dealing with depression.

This theory isn’t tough to prove from the comfort of your own home. If you play online, the next time you get dealt aces or kings see if your body sits up just a little bit higher, or if you get engaged a little bit more with your computer. The change in your own posture will be noticeable and once you recognize the changes based on your own reaction, it will be easy to see the changes in your opponents.

Keep an eye out for players that look at their cards and sit up immediately. At the same time, if your opponents look at their cards and their overall posture falls, don’t expect them to play the hand out. Posture can dictate the engagement at any point of a hand, so instead of watching the cards come out on the fl op, turn and river, look at your opponents. No matter when you look at the center of the table, the card will be the same.

While you’re playing you should be aware that you will be constantly adjusting in ways you may not realize. You may sit up as some major players do when they are strong and may sink low when weak. Just be attentive to the reality that others will be watching you and your posture. Of all nonverbals, your posture is not as hidden as you may think.

As with everything else I recommend, the more repetitive and predictable your actions become, the less your opponents will continue to focus on you. They’ll move onto someone who will give up more information. In relation to posture, try to fi nd a position that is comfortable and echo that position as much as possible. If you fi nd you are giving information away with your posture, get up and walk around then sit down again. That distraction will take pressure off of you and may realign what others perceive. Just be aware that over time you will send various messages with your posture by sitting low or sitting high. Manage this nonverbal carefully and your bankroll will be safer than ever before.

Joe Navarro is a resident WSOP Academy instructor and the leading authority on poker tells.

The video above was recently featured in a USA Today Article, Time to face facts: Tells will derail your game.

Former FBI Agent, and resident WSOP Academy instructor Joe Navarro is an expert in poker tells and has become one of the foremost authorities on reading nonverbal communications that people exhibit when they are lying. Joe Navarro has applied his 25 years of experience working as an FBI “spycatcher” to poker, and is revolutionzing the science of detecting and interpreting poker tells. Through his work, he has become one of the foremost authorities on reading the nonverbal communications that human beings exhibit when they are lying.

Whether a poker novice or a hardened veteran of the professional poker circuit, resident WSOP Academy instructor Joe Navarro will help you see inside your opponent and change the way you view the game.

Fancy Play Syndrome

This article by Greg Raymer, originally appeared in Bluff Magazine.

Fancy Play Syndrome

One of the most common mistakes that even the most experienced players make is getting caught up in Fancy Play Syndrome (FPS). FPS is defined as playing a hand in an unusual way so as to represent a specific hand that you’re not actually holding, and is usually designed to induce a fold from your opponent. Players attempt FPS for various reasons, but usually much too often.

I was in the middle stages of a No Limit Hold’em tournament on PokerStars, and doing well with approximately 100 big blinds. A short-stacked player in early position moved all in for eight big blinds. I held Q-Q and decided to raise, as I did not want to just call and possibly induce several other players to call behind me. I figured that twenty big blinds would be enough to isolate, so I reraised to that amount. Surprisingly, a player in late position moved all in for a total of 45 big blinds. Everyone else folded and I’m staring at a pot that now has 75 big blinds in it. It would cost me just 25 big blinds more, giving me a great price of 3:1. Since the worst spot I can be in against the second all-in player is if he has A-A or K-K, making me a 4:1 underdog – and since he might have several other hands such as A-K, J-J, and maybe even some weaker holdings such as 10-10, 9-9, A-Q, etc. – I have to call at this price.
Once I called, I was very surprised, to see that the second all-in player only held Q-8 off-suit. He was guilty of FPS in this instance, because he was foolish enough to think that I would fold in this spot. The basic thought process starts with both of us believing that the shortstack in early position could move in with anything. The late-position opponent then predicts that my reraise represents a medium-strength hand and I’m reraising to prevent the rest of the table from getting involved, which is true to a certain extent. I believe he’s estimating my range as a medium or even a small pair, as well as unpaired hands as weak as A-9 and K-10. I also believe that he didn’t think I could have A-A, K-K or Q-Q in this spot, as he suspects that I would just call or slowplay such strong hands. His FPS thought process is that since I must know that he doesn’t expect me to fold, he therefore must have a huge hand, and that means I can fold my likely medium-strength hand against his “obvious” A-A or K-K, even though I’m getting 3:1 on the call.
If he moves in and I fold, he’ll win twelve big blinds immediately (my raise), but have to put eight big blinds into the pot (to call the shortstack all in) for an immediate profi t of four big blinds. He will then be freerolling for the main pot of 27 big blinds. He knows that the all-in player usually has a better hand than Q-8, but he’s still going to win about 40% of the time against the range of the all-in player. Given that 40% equity, he’s predicted to win an additional eleven big blinds or so from the main pot of 27. It’s not that all of his analysis is incorrect, but it’s an example of FPS where he came up with the scenario where he thought he could win a few chips every time I fold, and occasionally win a lot more when he gets lucky against the shortstack – but this is all based upon him putting me on a hand that I’ll fold.
As mentioned before, the upside potential is he wins on average fifteen bets when the play works. When the play fails, I have him covered and he goes broke much of the time. The best this player can possibly hope for, given this specific situation, is that he is holding two live cards. As it turned out this time, he’s a huge underdog in both the side-pot and the main pot as I couldn’t fold and had him dominated.
Part of the problem with FPS is that you create really hard scenarios to work with and a lot of people aren’t good enough to understand the secret message you are sending. While you’re attempting to lead your opponents down a path to where the light bulb comes on, getting them to fold, they might not get there. And if they’re smart enough to see the secret message you’re trying to send them, they might be just a little smarter still and see through your maneuver and the underlying truth as to what cards you are really holding.
As a general rule, FPS is a losing strategy. But once that first fancy play works out for people, they tend to get addicted to it and use it too much. It simply is more fun to win a pot by subterfuge than by just having the best hand. So it’s not simply using a fancy play that is the syndrome, but overusing such fancy plays. Tread carefully if you head down this path and remember that sometimes it’s better not to get involved in the hand at all.

WSOP Academy instructor Mark Seif gave a poker instruction seminar today at the 2009 WSOP. Held on a stage at the PokerPalooza expo at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, the class focused on how to read your opponents and how to use what you pick up from them to your advantage at the poker table.

This was just a taste of the instruction that is available to attendees at the WSOP Academy, so check out the upcoming WSOP Academy schedule and improve your poker game with hours and hours of expert poker instruction at the hands of some of the best poker players and instructors in the game.

WSOP Academy Instructor Mark Seif during live labs at a Cash Game Academy.

With the World Series of Poker (WSOP) just around the corner, there’s a lot of money to be made in the cash games as well as the tournaments. Cash games, side games, or ring games are extremely profitable for both professional poker players and amateur poker players. In fact, cash games are the bread and butter for most professional poker players. During the World Series of Poker, there are cash games running around the clock, plenty of action and plenty of dead money on the table.

With the launch the the WSOP Academy Cash Game Events earlier this year, often the question is asked, “what’s the difference between no-limit texas holdem cash game and no-limit texas holdem tournament play”?

Mark Seif, one of the lead instructors here at WSOP Academy, explored the fundamental differences between cash game and tournament poker and how one might want to adjust their play accordingly.

Fundamental Differences Between No-Limit Cash Games and No-Limit

 

Tournaments
By: Mark A Seif

Blinds. The blinds (and antes if applicable) go up during the course of a tournament, so that it doesn’t last forever. In cash games, the blinds and antes never go up. Thus, in a tournament you may be forced to play certain hands, because otherwise, the blinds and antes will eat up your stack. In cash games, that kind of pressure doesn’t exist. Accordingly, you never need to “make a move” in cash games. You can sit there and wait for premium opportunities without suffering much stack deterioration. The phrase “tight is right” is very applicable to cash game strategy for the most part.

Stack Sizes. Most tournaments mandate that each player start with the same amount in chips, and with the exception of rebuy tournaments, you can not add to your stack during the course of the tournament. In most cash games, you can determine how much you buy in for, and whether and how much to add to your stack as you play. Also, and quite importantly, most cash games play with much deeper stacks than tournaments. Deep stack play is very different than short stack play. Typically, you’ll find in deep stack play, the majority of the chips go in on the turn and river as opposed to pre-flop and on the flop. Thus, in order to master cash games you will have to learn the intricacies of playing deeper into hands where there is more information available to you and your opponents, specifically, the board will be more complete.

Correct Pot odds. In a tournament, you may find yourself in a situation where you are getting the correct pot odds to make a call, but you must also consider and factor in, how such a move may impact whether you are eliminated from the tournament, in other words, your tournament life has to be factored in. Thus, you may be getting the right price to call with your flush draw, but you might still have to fold because if you don’t complete your flush, you will be eliminated. This should never be the case in a cash game. As long as you are playing within your bankroll, you should take any edge being offered to you, every time! Even very small edges add up big over the course of your entire cash game poker career. Remember though, the key here is to play within your bankroll so that you don’t risk going broke.

Chip Values. In cash games the chips are like cash. In tournaments, the value of chips depends on the stage of the tournament and the payout structure. If you triple your stack in a tournament during the first hour you can’t cash out for triple your buy-in. In fact, you can’t cash out at all, until you are in the money.

Time. You can play as little or as long as you like in a cash game, that is not true in a tournament. The tournament structure will dictate how much time you’ll have to put in each day, if you are lucky enough to survive.

Coin Flips. In tournaments, especially in the later stages, you are likely to be involved in some coin flips wherein you and your opponent are all-in, pre-flop with no real edge for either side. Coin flips are quite rare in cash games because of the deeper stacks.

Blinds, Stack Sizes, Correct Pot Odds, Chip Values, Time, & Coin Flips are just several of the basic differences between No-Limit Hold’em tournament and cash game play. These and more will be explored in depth during our intensive 2 day Cash Game Academies.  Cash games are extremely profitable if you play optimal strategy and adjust your decision making to fit the game.

If you are looking to make your WSOP Experience as profitable and enjoyable as possible give yourself the best possible edge by checking out the WSOP Academy Cash Game 2-day Event taking place May 30 -31, 2009 at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.

To get more poker strategy from pros like Outhred, Annie Duke, Greg Raymer, Mark Seif and many, many others, check out the upcoming WSOP Academy schedule and reserve your seat now.

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Since a lot of people have told us how valuable it is learning real-life poker tells from Navarro, we figured, “surely there’s gotta be something you can pick up from people even if you’re playing online poker…” And sure enough, we were right.

These kinds of tips, including Navarro’s poker tells seminar, are all part of the poker training attendees get at the WSOP Academy. So, to see when the next event is, check the WSOP Academy schedule and reserve your seat now.

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