The latest one comes from the executive vice president of a high-tech company. Scott Welch offers five business lessons he's learned from poker rooms. His top tip is "watching for clues" - checking people's body language or "tone of voice" to determine if they're honest or phony.
In poker, we suspect one of the best approaches to take with a hand is neutrality. Make yourself as nondescript as possible, in your betting gestures or comments. We learned to do this long before we entered our first poker tournament -- and sadly, we learned it by listening to church messages which sometimes made outlandish or inaccurate claims.
When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise. - Proverbs 10:19
There are times when saying nothing during a hand is the best way to stay out of trouble. You won't be caught lying, and you might leave your opponent guessing.
Even a fool is thought wise is he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue. - Proverbs 17:28
But the wise writer of these proverbs also noted this....
There is a time for everything.... a time to be silent and a time to speak.... - Ecclesiastes 3:1, 7
So we're open for your thoughts on this. When do you decide to speak during a poker hand, and when do you keep quiet? Does it depend on the opponent? The time in the tournament? Leave a comment, and we'll get back to this in a future post.
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