There are a few common mistakes and tells that the experienced eye will pick up on during a game.

• Draws: Chasing straight and flush draws for the in correct price is a common mistake,  you need to be getting about just under 3 to 1 on your money on the flop to call for your flush draw and 5 to 1 on your money for a call on the turn  E.g on the flop if there is £9 in the pot and a player bets £3 you are getting the right odds to call, if there is £9 in the pot and someone bets £5 you are not priced in to call, and in the long run you will loose more money than you will win.Once you notice a player that will call big bets for draws, you can simply lure him in. Some players tend to bet small amounts to try and get a cheap card,instead of checking and having to call a bigger bet, a lot of players lose a lot of money by simply calling these small bets and letting them hit their draw very cheaply, the standard play would be to re raise about a pot sized bet, which will still entice a lot of bad players to call even though there getting terrible pot odds,but get rid of the good players if the turn comes a blank I would then bet about 1.5 – 2x the pot and take it down there and then.

• Check/Fold box: Players that check to you instantly have probably clicked on the check fold box, which means that they will fold to any bet, which is useful information if there are 3 players on the table and 1 check/folds checks to you, you know you can bet and only really have to worry about 1 player, thus increasing the chance of you taking the pot down by 50%

• Call: players also use the call check/call button in advance to, this is useful information to, If someone instantly calls regardless of the action before him, you can be pretty certain he has a monster hand, whereas check call could be used in advance for drawing hands.

• New players: I have noticed a lot of new players do this in my poker career. When new players are playing a live game, you often see their hands shaking, because of the adrenaline, more often than not in my experience I have seen people with shaky hands and then show down the nuts. It is not a myth, it is an easy tell but is not that common, but it does exist with certain new players, so keep an eye out.

• Over playing hands: On full handed tables ( 9-10 ) players you will often get players who will play pretty weak-average hands from early position. What i mean by this is a hand like J 10 , K J playing these kind of hands in late position on the table when there is only 1 or 2 people to act behind you is OK but playing them in early position is a bad move. There are several reasons for this, first of all a 10 handed game is very different to a 6 handed one, you’ve got extra 4 hands out there to compete with which means the value of hands will go down. If you limp in early position with J10 and everyone calls behind you and the last player to act raises a bit, you will probably be getting good pot odds because of the amount in the pot, so you will probably call and so will the the rest of the table for the pot odds, this has achieved nothing for your hand, you have put more money in the pot than you originally intended and all the players are still in.Secondly, you will be first to act after the flop which is bad news because everyone is still to act behind you, Even if the flop came J 2 3 , you wouldn’t know where you stood because there are so many people in the pot, the last person to act pre flop might have called the small raise  with 2 3 because he was getting 10 to 1 on his money… If you bet out with top pair weak kicker, and you get a raise behind you, you might find yourself getting tangled up, or even getting pot committed where you have to call off the rest of your chips because you’ve already got so much in there. A Lot of weak players tend to fall into this trap and over play average hands from early position, Position is one of the most important words in the poker world, position is power.You will get some players that are used to playing short handed games, but fancied playing a full table, and are still playing short handed style, quite loose.If you find these kind of players at your tables you want to make it expensive for them so hit their weak hands when you’ve got the goods.and on the flip side if you have a monster you can trap them by checking to them hoping they overplay their hand when they hit their mediocre hand.

• Playing too tight/Aggressive: This is a common occurrence, you will get players that will play hardly any hands or play every single 1, its pretty simple to play these people, If you have a super tight player you should be trying to steal his blinds whenever you can, and if he raises you only want to be calling with a premium hand, just stay out of his way if you’ve got a mediocre hand, you’re probably out kicked. If you find yourself playing an aggressive player, you generally want to be trapping him and letting him do the betting for you, I would check to him a lot with  good hands, but occasionally do some raising to regardless of the hand, so  that he doesn’t know that you’re always check your monster hands to him.

• Playing with scared money: This is a tragic mistake to make, If you buy in above your comfort zone and are scared to loose the money, then the odds are against you, you will be less inclined to put money in the pot and gradually get chipped away. NEVER make this mistake.