There are many ways to interpret the actions of a poker face, and each of them can give you a different understanding of the human psyche. Some poker players believe that poker faces say a lot about a player’s true character. They can reveal a secret fear or insecurity, or they can be a sign of strength and strategy. In actuality, however, what is conveyed by a poker face is really more about how a person perceives the world around them. 

A poker face is not really about how a person feels: It is, in fact, an exaggeration of how they actually feel. A poker face can sometimes be a facade used to protect the truth, to impress upon others, or to avoid making a huge mistake. There are times when poker faces are created out of necessity – for example, when someone feels very confident about winning the pot, they might want to make a big bet. But most of the time, they’re merely creating a poker face so that they can relax and focus on their real ability to win, without having to admit that they made a huge mistake. 

In reality, poker faces are often there to add to the entertainment factor: As mentioned before, poker is such a popular game, that watching it without any knowledge of how a poker face works is almost impossible. Therefore, people who don’t know how poker faces work get a vicariously “inside” game that is captivating to watch. This may include watching someone tilt their head to one side as they prepare to bluff their way to a win, or are watching someone prepare to fold only to laugh off the hand they just played, showing that they were simply having a good time. 

What about how a poker face actually feels? Does it actually make you feel good to see someone handling the cards like that? Does it make you think that you should play your cards well too? In fact, these poker faces have an interesting psychological effect on us. They make us want to emulate them. If we see someone with great poker skills, we want to play like that too! 

There are actually two main reasons for why someone would want to have a poker face: The first reason is because we’re more afraid when we’re facing a real opponent than we are when we’re playing against imaginary one. That’s because we actually have to evaluate how we feel when we’re up against someone, rather than whether we’re up against an imaginary one. When we’re up against someone we know is a real person, then it’s easy to act like we know what we’re doing, when in fact we don’t. This is why we tend to develop some of our worst habits against real people – we’re afraid of making a mistake. 

So if you find yourself in a poker game: and notice someone who is obviously better than you, but is only bluffing, you’d be wise to remember that he’s bluffing. The second reason why people want to have poker faces is because we generally don’t want to be up against real people. The third reason, and the most important one, is because we don’t want to be up against imaginary people. These three reasons are interrelated, but that’s not important in this article.

What’s important to understand is that when you have a poker face, you have psychological advantages over people who don’t.