Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
There is a theory that people who stack their chips
There is a theory that people who stack their chips haphazardly are loose players and those who stack their chips neatly will play conservatively. I have not observed this to be a reliable tell. I believe that neat people tend to stack their chips neatly and sloppy people will stack their chips in a sloppy fashion. I have not found how player stack their chips to be a reliable tell as to how they play.
Another thing that will often give away
Another thing that will often give away a player's skill level is how much they are talking at the table and what they are talking about. The best players will usually not talk or talk very little. They are trying to remain observant of the other players. They would rather listen and observe then converse in idle chit chat.