This presentation begins with poker fundamentals, then adds layer-by-layer the capabilities that will usually lead to the next level of performance. Thus, these seven levels are arranged somewhat in order of difficulty, somewhat in their usual order of mastery, somewhat in the order that they build upon each other, and from the fundamental to the most advanced. Some players will have to work much harder at various of the levels than will others. For some, there will be things that will come easy and naturally. While for others, those same things might be extremely difficult, even entirely alien. Most every player who masters these levels, will do so at a different rate, and probably in a different order, than any other player. In the final analysis, though, every successful tournament player will have mastered each of these levels, one way or another.