What was the tell in rounders

His dialogue when the Ace of Spades hits on the river. The fact that he taunts Mike when the Ace appears on the river. His decision to push all of his chips into the pot when the Ace appears on the river. His reaction when he loses the hand. Getting angry and cursing. The fact that he decided to slow play his pocket Aces earlier in the film.

When his Aces full of nines, beat Mike's nines full of Aces. Perhaps he was trying to slow play them again. Teddy KGB's tell was that when he had nothing and was bluffing, he would only break open his Oreo cookies, but not eat them. But, when he would have a winning hand, he would not only break open his Oreos, but he would also eat them.

Such as when Mike suspects he has for a straight, when the flop reads; 5 3 A, and Mike only has two pair, Aces and fives. Oreo doesn't need the creme filling to be good.

Excellent movie IMO. I thought that was extremely obvious. Failed To Load Title. Pay that man his money. Quoted: Pay that man his money. Why the fuck did you lay that down His fake Russian accent got worse when he was bluffing. If he was bluffing, he would separate a cookie, and then put it down. When he had a good hand, he'd separate the cookie, then eat it. Quoted: Oreo doesn't need the creme filling to be good.

View Quote I love Rounders, but no one can argue it depicts realistic high-stakes poker scenes. But you could also argue that realistic high-stakes poker scenes would not make a good movie.

So why are these things in the movie? Are they supposed to be there? What does it mean from a scriptwriting perspective? Did they know that these were very obvious tells? Like in an action movie, when the hero hides a second gun behind his back and feigns fear when his main gun has been taken away; these are just ways to make our hero or villain more conniving and clever. If these tells are there as a result of the screenwriters not realizing what these things meant, you could say that these tells are actually the tells of the screenwriters themselves.

But I could be wrong. Although then I would argue that it is still possible to create dramatic table talk that is realistic, too. Michael is also the same guy who wrote a most awesome review of my poker tells book.

You mean to tell me that this guy has been cleaning house for years always eating Oreos out of a chip tray and Matt Damon is the first guy to notice this? Great job, genius. If KGB is as dangerous as they make it seem other players might not be willing to talk about him behind his back. Even if other players do recognize this tell they might be unwilling to profit from it out of fear.

I wonder if you missed a couple on the last clip. I read recently, in a book on poker tells, that if the other player is staring you down, giving you the finger, and pushing all his chips in the pot; he is rarely weak. So the writers had a decent knowledge of tells. He would probably be blind to any tells that feed into his dominant self image.

In other words, not complicated. Great post!