This is often performed by people who are bluffing. This way they hope their opponents will get scary and fold the winning hand. However, sometimes people just act strong when they actually HOLD the best hand. Those are the moments you’ll have to figure that this player is able to fool around (with a lot of chips) or that he just plays ABC poker and he can’t hide his strentgh. This happened in the episode of the Main Event (coming closer to the final table over here) I saw yesterday.

It’s a hand between Steve Begleiter and Eric Buchman on the feature table. It’s the last hand on this movie:

So Begleiter opens with a raise with his pocket Queens, and Buchman feels like raising with AJ off. Now concentrate on everything Begleiter does after it’s his turn again. The look, the time he takes, the moves with his hands and the strong voice with which he announces his reraise: this guy has a real hand and Buchman realizes this and folds. Steve Begleiter is still an amateur, he has to learn to hide the strength of his hand according to my opinion. What do you think?