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Basic Trope: A character can't keep a straight face when they're trying to deceive someone else.

  • Straight: Alice can't hide her glee when she gets four of a kind or her despair when she gets a bad hand in poker.
  • Exaggerated: Alice can't help but openly talk about her poker hand, good or bad.
  • Downplayed: Alice has a noticeable tell showing how good her hand is. Those who play against her regularly easily pick up on it.
  • Justified: ???
  • Inverted: Alice's face is completely stoic when she has a good or bad hand, but very emotive when she gets an average hand.
  • Subverted: Alice intentionally acts like her poker face is bad to throw her opponents off.
  • Double Subverted: ...But there are still reasonably obvious tells about her hands.
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Alice's poker face is excellent.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: Bob, thinking: Alice is too easy to read.
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: Bob uses Alice's terrible poker face to clean her out.
  • Defied: Alice works hard before her big poker match to hide all of her tells, to keep Bob from getting a leg up on her.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: "Such a terrible poker face. Is it any wonder Bob keeps beating her?"
  • Implied: Alice's face is shown, with a look of glee on it, even though we cannot see her cards.

I know you have No Poker Face in your hand. It's written all over your face.

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