All serious poker players try to minimize their tells, obviously. There are a couple ways to go about this. One is the robotic approch: where your face becomes a mask and your voice a monotone, at least while the hand is being played. The other is the manic method, where you affect a whole bunch of tics, twitches, and expressions, and mix them up with a river of insane babble. The idea is to overwhelm your opponents with clues, so they can't sort out what's going on. This approach can be effective, but for normal people it's hard to pull off. (If you've spent part of your life in an institution, this method may come naturally.) .Dan Harrington
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The whole idea is that you don't want to give too much away about what you are thinking because it only gives away what you are thinking. It's best to act like everything is fine when in fact you are freaking out about something. If you act like everything is normal, your opponent will think your fine when in reality you are freaking out. This quote shows that practicing to act like everything is normal can be very useful in poker.
Source: Harrington On Hold Em: Expert Strategy For Nolimit Tournaments, Volume I: Strategic Play
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