The calling station is one of the ultimate “love ‘em or hate ‘em” players you can run into at the poker table: either you treat them like an automated teller machine, or they win hand after frustrating hand against you. Regardless of how you run against them in any given session, however, calling stations should be among your most desirable opponents.  Why? Because they are weak and predictable, making them easy to game plan against. A calling station is a player who will allow you to control the betting in the hand and will call your bets if he hits any piece of the board or has any sort of draw. He will rarely raise and will rarely fold unless he has absolutely nothing. The difficult part about playing against a calling station is that he will just not give up on a hand. Bottom pair? That’s worth calling. Inside straight draw? Hey, a straight is a strong hand! As such, you are bound to suffer some suckouts and lose some big pots against a calling station. Your top pair, top kicker may be good against a reasonable player, but you will have a hard time seeing the calling station’s two pair ...