How A Poker Pro 'Reads' His Opponents
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
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🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Whenever poker is depicted on a TV show or in a movie there's a lot of emphasis placed on the art and science of reading the physical cues that players give off accidentally when attempting to conceal the motivations behind their bets. Poker pros call these "tells." Even though tells are overrated as a source of significant alpha at a poker table (and their significance is diminished even more when playing online) they can still be important. On this week's podcast, we speak to Zachary Elwood, a former pro poker player who has authored multiple books on tells and how to read them.
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| 0:00.0 | Osage County, Oklahoma is getting a lot of attention right now. |
| 0:04.4 | It's the setting of Martin Scorsese's latest film, |
| 0:07.8 | Killers of the Flower Moon. |
| 0:10.0 | The movies based on a book about the 1920s Osage murders, |
| 0:14.1 | when white men poured into Osage County |
| 0:16.4 | and killed Osage people for their oil wealth. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Rachel Adams Heard, the host of InTrust, a podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Media. |
| 0:26.8 | For over a year I was reporting a different story about other ways white people got |
| 0:32.1 | Osage, land, land and wealth and how a prominent ranching family in Osage County became one of the biggest landowners here. |
| 0:40.0 | Their ranching empire was built on land that at the turn of the century was all owned by the Osage Nation. |
| 0:47.0 | So how did they get it? |
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| 0:55.3 | Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots Podcast. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm Joe Wiesenthal. |
| 1:17.0 | And I'm Tracy Allaway. |
| 1:20.0 | Tracy, today we're going to talk about a subject that we've talked about a lot on |
| 1:25.0 | a lot over the years but I don't think we've done an episode on it recently. |
| 1:29.3 | Do you know what it is? I mean it could be anything but go on what is it? Okay so I'll give you |
| 1:36.4 | another hint it's a subject that I really like and I'm interested in and you always |
| 1:40.9 | sort of claim that you know nothing about it and are not interested in it. |
| 1:45.0 | It's totally not a claim, Joe, and I think I know where you're heading with this. |
| 1:50.0 | It's the objective truth. I know nothing about the subject and if we were to engage in |
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