We’ve arrived at episode five in this cash game series and it comes with my personal guarantee that it’s better than episode five (Episode II for the pedants out there) of Star Wars (‘around the survivors a perimeter create’ my arse). This month I’m going to look at playing the player.

Poker is not a game played in a textbook – it’s played against other people. Every opponent is different, with alternative ways of playing and thinking. Not only that, they’ll vary how they play depending on whether they’re winning or losing, if they’re a big stack or small stack.