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Understanding & Assigning Poker Ranges

In today’s article, we’ll talk about poker ranges and, more precisely, how to think along these lines and narrow down your opponents’ ranges as a hand progresses.

In poker, you’ll never know your opponent’s two specific cards; that’s not how the game works. Thus, you need to think in terms of all the hands they could reasonably have.

Simply put, range is a collection of poker hands that a particular player could have based on their actions, as well as specific and general tendencies.

Narrowing Down the Range

Assigning ranges in poker is a dynamic process.