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Reading Poker Tells Video: Eye Contact and Staring from Waiting-for-Action Players

Related Topics: Poker, Eye contact, Staring

(This article is part of a series. Each article discusses a specific poker behavior and features a short sample clip from Zachary Elwood’s Reading Poker Tells Video series.)

A player who is waiting for an opponent to act, and who looks toward or stares at the player whose turn it is, is more likely to have a weak hand.

The video clip below contains an example of this behavior from a tournament.

This is a pretty common way that this behavior shows up: a player with a weak hand checks and looks toward his opponent.