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It is always difficult to gauge just how much you should rely on physical tells you get from poker players when playing live. Much depends on the strength of the player I feel, and your perception of their ability to disguise, or even intentionally give false tells about their poker hand.

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Sometimes when you reach for chips and start counting out a raise, you will find that a poker player of limited skill might be sat forward watching you intently if they have a strong poker hand. You might also find that poker players who are planning to fold their hands are looking elsewhere and not paying attention. These tells become less useful when playing against skilled opponents however, but that doesn’t mean you cannot pick up anything at all from these poker players.

Some poker players speak of tells such as hands shaking, or even seeing a quickening or more pronounced pulse in the neck, but these tells are not accurate usually. You only have to think about the fact that a persons pulse rate could quicken whether they have a monster hand, or are making a huge bluff, to see these are not reliable ways to tell how strong someone is.

Often you might find that a poker player asks how many chips another person has left when they are in a big pot. It is possible sometimes to detect confidence, or a poker player simply trying to act confident by their voice, but again, these are not always easy to decipher. Overall the best physical tells in poker are probably body language and where they are looking (if they are not wearing sunglasses).