Focus, focus, focus

This is a guy at my table at Binion's a couple of weeks ago. You may not be able to tell clearly, but he has a cell phone up to his left ear--though he had to push his stereo headphones out of the way to hear his conversation. And he has live cards in front of him. (This is OK at Binion's--not so everywhere.) You may also notice that he has a book on the table. Between hands, he was reading his new novel (The Venetian Betrayal by Steve Berry) and rocking out to his iPod.

How good do you suppose he was at picking up tells on his opponents during this hand? When he wasn't involved in a hand, how much data do you suppose he picked up on things like what range of hands other people tended to play, how they looked when they liked their hand and when they didn't, clues about players' habits based on their casual conversation, who plays their hands aggressively versus passively, who is patient or impatient, who can pick off bluffs and who can be bluffed, etc.?

I wonder if he has any idea how much free information is zooming right past him while he talks on the phone and absorbs his book?