Rounders poker scenes

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Both of them exhibit a kind of poker tell I call “disclaimers”, which are verbal statements designed to explain away (in other words, disclaim) the meaning behind an action.

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Both Teddy KGB and Mike McDermott (Matt Damon’s character) exhibit a few poker tells besides the infamous Oreo cookie one. My email acquaintance Michael Blinder recently wrote to point out something very awesome in the movie Rounders. Hi, I’m Zach Elwood, the author of the books Reading Poker Tells and Verbal Poker Tells, and the creator of a new poker tells video series.

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