Product Description

Joe Navarro is a former counterintelligence officer specializing in nonverbal communications and behavioral analysis with nine-time World Series of Poker Champion. Phil Hellmuth presents the next evolution in poker strategy - becoming a human lie detector at the tables. Success in poker is part luck, part maths, and part subterfuge. While the maths of poker has been refined over the past twenty years, the ability to read other players and keep your own "tells" in check has until now been mostly learned by instinct and practice. However by using Navarro's techniques illustrated with Hellmuth's examples, you will be able to decode and interpret other players nonverbal communication while concealing your own. You will essentially become a human lie detector and a feared player.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26601 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

About the Author
PHIL HELLMUTH. is an internationally recognized professional poker play, nine-time World Series of Poker Champion and bestselling author of Play Poker Like the Pros. JOE NAVARRO, M.A., FBI (ret.). For 25 years, Joe Navarro, M.A., worked with the FBI, both as an agent and supervisor in the area of counterintelligence and counterterrorism handling complex multinational investigations. He is presently an adjunct faculty member at the FBI's Counterintelligence Division where he teaches behavioral analysis and nonverbal communications. He consults to the Department of Energy, the State Department, and the Institute for Defense Analysis, a Washington, D.C. based think tank. Mr. Navarro has taught intelligence analysis to both the law enforcement and intelligence communities

Customer Reviews

A very disappointing read.
This is a short book (200 large print pages) and, as someone else pointed out, printed on VERY poor quality paper. There are huge amounts of repetition and waffle and, in all honesty the main points of the book could fit into a magazine article. As such, from a value for money point if nothing else, it is poor value.
The information it does contained is very simple and I'm sure anyone who has the slightest interest in poker `tells' will have heard it all before. His two major points seem to be "see if someone does something every time they bluff and watch for them to do it again - then you will know they are bluffing" and "when you bluff or bet for value always act the same way". Hardly going to set the table alight with information like that.
Also, on a more personal note, `Joe Navarro' isn't a poker pro, or even someone who seems to know a lot about the game. He is an `expert' in `non verbal communication' - he works for the FBI (and mentions this approximately twice every page, and sounds incredibly smug as he does so - "Once while questioning a guy in the middle east he kept looking at the floor so I knew he was lying...") and so the examples often have little clear link to the game. Phil Hellmuth pops up from time to time and when he isn't plugging "Camp Hellmuth" he say things like "Once I noticed that my opponent touched her nose when she was bluffing I cleaned up...". Don't expect in-depth real game examples from these two.

All in all I would not recommend this to anyone looking to improve their poker game - if you want to read a good book about tells check out Mike Caro for a start. This really strikes me as a rip-off cashing in on Hellmuths image when he cant be arsed to write a book about the subject himself.

Excellent info to make a profit!
Very interesting, clearly written information to enable you, the poker player, to make better judgements at the table based on what other players are doing, not saying.
Decide if a player is bluffing, or has a strong hand just by studying their movements, feet and facial expressions.

The writing style is easy to follow, its extremely readable, and the black and white photographs are clear and very useful in illustrating the various tells Joe Navarro is explaining.

Obviously, this book is not much use for online play, but for live play, its a great introduction to the world of tells and making money from other players unconscious actions at the table.

Only slight criticism is the inferior quality paper used in the printing of the book, but the content is pure gold.

Poker Gold!!!
Fantastic from start to finish and such an easy read. The examples are clear to follow and you can apply the techniques and advice immediately to both Poker and everyday life. The fact that this book gave Phil Hellmuth new information and ideas on tells after 9 WSOP bracelets just shows how current and on the money this book is. You'll never play poker the same way again.