1. The “wave of the hand” is one of the funniest poker tells out there. The player waves his hand as if to say, “Oh well, I’ll try a bet”. It you can’t tell they have a big hand, you should stop playing.

2. Shaking hands is a tell that some people can’t stop. If they’re betting and their hands are uncontrollable, get out of the hand. They have a monster and can’t control their excitement.

3. When an opponent sits straight up in their chair you know that they just hit something that greatly improved their hand.

4. Stiffening up is another hilarious tell that many can’t stop from doing. When a fun-loving player suddenly gets stiff and serious, you know they have something in their hand.

5. If you encounter a player that tells a joke after he bets, they most likely are holding a good hand.

The WSOP Europe event is about to begin again. It seems like only yesterday that Annette Obrestad won her first bracelet as an 18-year-old, beating a field of some of the best players in the world to win over $2M. The events start on Sept 19 and end on October 2. Online poker rooms are offering different satellites that could get you there; here’s what Bodog poker has scheduled.

You can qualify for a quarterfinal satellite for as little as $1+$0. You still need to climb the levels to the finals. These cheap satellites run every day at 11:15am. You can get to that same quarterfinal by finishing deep enough in a 100-point tournament. Straight entry into the quarterfinal is $54+$4, or $22+$2 re-buy event. The big one is the $500+$40 semi-final qualifier, with two players winning an all-inclusive package to the main event.

When playing online poker position is very important, but it’s not everything. Position plays an important role in stealing small pots when no one shows aggression in a hand, or when you have a big hand and other players are betting into you. But position isn’t everything in online poker.

It’s more important in no-limit poker than it is in limit or pot limit. Limit poker offers players good pot odds most of the time, so playing hands from any position is more common. In a no-limit game it’s easier to push opponents off of a hand because you can make a large bet into a pot after everyone has passed on it.

Players online tend to be more aggressive than live game players, so position bets are often called. It’s tougher to get away with late position bluffs because everyone expects the late position player to make a bet.

Season One of the Asian Poker Tour was a big success. Big enough that season Two has been planned for this fall, beginning in September in Macau. That event will be from the 1st to the 19th. The other events will be in Korea, New Zealand, The Philippines, and Australia.

The Korean event will be held on September 26-28 in Seoul. It will be at the Paradise Walker-Hill Casino with a buy-in of $2870, with a maximum of 250 players. The New Zealand event will take place on October 9-12 at the Skycity Casino in Auckland. Buy-in will be $2400.

Manila’s Hyatt Hotel & Casino will host the Philippines APT event. Dates for the event are being determined, but the cost of the main event will be $2350. The last event in Australia will be on December 2-7. They will host it in Sydney, and it will cost $5,930.