How do you learn poker? The frustrating answer you might always get, is the non-committal phrase - it depends. Put in another way, many players may tell you that they are 'situational' players - they get a sense of a specific scenario and act accordingly. The trouble with poker is that you are playing fellow human beings - each trying to outfox each other. Each human being approaches the game in a different way - some do not even have an approach at all! Indeed, this human factor is the stuff of great poker games.