Tells

[BalugaWhale]

Well, since I posted two hands tonight that got no responses [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

When i am back home (which I am currently not), I play in a lot of home games. These range from 25 to 100 dollar buy-in games, so theres plenty of money on the table and the action good. There is a typical gang of sharks, fish, wanna-be TAGs, actual TAGs, etc. Seeing as I've played 20k hands between the last time I played against them and now, I look forward to playing again.

however, I don't often play live, and when I do I feel that picking up tells is the weakest part of my game.

So here are my questions:
1) What tells do you use regularly?
2) How do you mask your own tells? (i.e. neck pulse, nervousness)
3) What kinds of tells have you found online?


I'll start it off with a good one a friend told me once. With the inexperienced player (or one who doesn't know this information), yes means no. So, if you ask him "how do you like your hand?" and he says "pretty good" , he is probably weak. If he says, "nah it's terrible" he is probably strong. I've found this to be effective.

What say ye, gentlemen?