In the nine years I've been playing poker, I have had my fair share of epiphanies – moments of realisation in which I felt I finally understood a key concept. At least a couple of those have involved top pair in no-limit hold’em.

Playing top pair demands attention to a great many factors, and adjusting well to those factors can have a significant impact on your results. I’ ll be demonstrating how the stakes of the game and the skill levels of the other players can have a massive bearing on your decision-making.

In this quiz we’ ll work through some tricky situations involving a flopped top pair, including complications such as a paired flop and a highly textured flop, as well as looking at the always tempting scenario of hitting top pair on a small flop.