Poker is a highly situational game. Every situation is unique and deserves careful consideration. Perhaps you are holding the stone-cold nuts, and you are trying to determine how to extract the most value from your opponents. Maybe you are trying to protect your stack in a situation where you have a marginal hand. Regardless of the particular circumstance you find yourself in, there is an underlying framework through which all good poker decisions are made. Playing winning poker is all about the following process: 1. Putting your opponents on hand distributions 2. Evaluating your own hand 3. Figuring out how your opponents will respond to every possible action you can make 4. Deducing the line of play yielding the highest EV (expectation value) based on #1-#3 Putting your opponents on hands and figuring out how your opponents will respond to your actions are all about reading betting patterns, picking up physical tells, and recognizing psychological...