By contrast, the player on my left regularly opened to $20, especially from late position, in an attempt to pick up all of the money from the callers. The game was fairly loose and passive, with lots of callers. I was in the cutoff, and the villain was on my immediate left on the button. Take for example a recent 'range war' in which I became involved at a nearby poker room. The successful player must correctly assess how his hand compares not just to some specific hand, but to the full range of hands his opponent is likely to be playing. These poker range wars are an attempt by one player to determine first an opponent's likely range of hands, and then how his own hand is likely to stack up against that range. In poker, 'range wars' also involve battles of competing interests, but concerning very different kinds of poker ranges. In the language of the time these battles were called 'range wars.'
Typically, this conflict of interests causes friction, often culminating in a battle between the two groups. The plots often involve a battle between homesteaders looking to divide up the open prairies into individually parceled out farms and ranchers looking to maintain the open prairie to allow for the free range for their cattle. I watch a lot of old western movies on Turner Classic Movies.
