Raising an eyebrow or moving your lips into the slightest smile can betray you.
Psychology plays a crucial role in poker and knowing to read your opponents’ faces can help you win the game.
When Lady Gaga released her hit song in 2009, the term ‘poker face’ was finally introduced to a broader audience, including people who literally know nothing about poker.īut, what is a poker face? Is it related to gambling or not?Īccording to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a poker face is “an inscrutable face that reveals no hint of a person’s thoughts or feelings”, a blank expression, essentially.Ī poker face is an expression one makes in an effort to deceive other people regarding the actions they are taking in order to achieve a certain goal.
