Joe Navarro Poker Seminar at WSOP Ladies Only Poker Camp

For all his skill at the poker table, Joe Navarro has little interest in gambling itself. During his more than 2 decades of service with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Navarro rarely entertained the word tell.

A tell is a common poker term which means the mannerisms that a player involuntarily shows during a poker game. These tells might mean that the player has a good hand or the player might just be bluffing.

Navarro said that poker players call these things tells, but he calls them nonverbal actions or communications because they are the same thing.

As an agent and a supervisor in the counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism with the FBI, Navarro had a little time to join poker tournaments or spend time in casinos due to the nature of his job.

Navarro developed a good reputation as an expert regarding the behavior of criminals and their actions. Navarro is currently giving seminars in the poker circuit, educating professionals and amateurs on the skills that they have to possess as a player.

Joe Navarro's next poker seminar will be at the World Series of Poker Academy Ladies Only Poker Camp, a 2 day seminar which is scheduled on June 8-9, 2007 at Caesars Palace. The cost for the seminar is $1,699. Poker Pro Annie Duke will join Joe Navarro in teaching the seminar.

A tournament at the end of the seminar for the participants will award 10 seats at the World Series Ladies no-limit hold'em poker tournament with $1,000 buy-in. Navarro said that there is a substantial similarity between his FBI work and working with poker players.

For him, it makes no difference whether he is in the interrogation room or the poker room. Navarro said that players should do everything to conceal the hand that is currently in their possession.

Navarro said that what was puzzling to him was the amount of tells that a player simply gives away to their opponents, which puts them in a bad position.

Navarro said that some of the common tells that players give is rubbing their necks (a sign of a bluff), leaning towards the center of the table (a strong card hand), slumping of the shoulders (a bad card hand) or happy feet which also means that the player has a good hand.

June 17, 2007
Pauline Davis