Once you reach a certain level in internet cash games you will find that many players will have mastered the basic fundamentals of no-limit hold’em. By the $5/$10 level most regular players will have sound pre-flop opening ranges, understand the mechanics of three and four-betting and be competent post-flop. And if you want to cross the threshold of $25/$50, you must start to consider other factors that separate good players from great players. Most important among these are image and game flow.

What we are talking about here is anything from general tendencies in a player’s game to how two players have been playing against each other in the immediate past or in specific hands.