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Bobbi Dempsey wrote The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying Foreclosures and The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Home Inspections. She writes a poker feature for Men's Edge, and is a freelance writer/editor for Playboy, Maxim, Muscle & Fitness, and other major magazines.

Read your opponent … and rake in the chips.

The world's best poker players can read their opponents' most subtle expressions and behaviors—no matter how hard their opponents try to hide them. A tapping foot, a change in vocal tone, and countless other clues “tell” an informed player what cards the opponent is holding and how they're likely to be played. The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Poker Tells explains everything amateur poker players need to start interpreting tells and using them to develop poker intuition.