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Position in Poker

Reading Paul Phua’s advice and watching his videos you will have realised this – he says it’s important that you always reassess. If new information about opponents and the cards they have comes to light, then you should be ready to change your play, and make decisions of your own about how you should play your hand.

Taking decisions in Texas Holdem Poker are based on lots of different factors. What cards you have. What cards you think your opponents have. How big the stacks are. How big the pot is. How many players there are around the table? All valid – says Paul. But one factor that amateurs often don’t take into account as often as they should is what position they are playing in around the table.

Paul Phua thinks that too many amateur players play exactly the same way whether they are to the left of the dealer as they do if they find themselves to the right of the dealer. Under the gun, or in the cut-off position, to use the poker jargon. Remember to check out Paul’s comprehensive poker term jargon buster on his website – it’s a great resource to make sure you aren’t embarrassed by not knowing what things mean if you are sat at the poker table with other players who have been playing Texas Holdem for a few years (https://www.paulphuapoker.com/poker-terms/).

Paul says it’s vital to remember that you have a much better chance of winning the hand the further to the right you are. You need much better cards to play in an early position – and to have a good chance of ending up with the pot – than you do if you are playing in a very late position. And not just by fine margins – by quite a large degree. This is because you have a lot more information playing late than you do playing early. If you are to the right of the dealer and have been dealt a pair of 5’s in the hole, if then 3 or 4 people fold, your hand looks a lot better than if all the opponents are still in the game by the time the betting comes to you.

Watch the video to find out why you have a much better chance to win the pot in Texas Holdem Poker if you are able to watch all your opponents act before you have to do so yourself.

Position

One mistake a lot of amateur players starting out in the game make is they play too many hands out of position, under the gun, or to the left of under the gun. They don’t fold enough. For example, they have 8 10 off suit, but they still want to see the flop. So they call a raise.

Beginners don’t consider their position enough when they play hands. There are hands I will play in a late position that I just wouldn’t play in an early position. 9 Jack suited – if I am on the dealer button, I might call or raise. If I am under the gun I might fold.

If I am in a good position, I will play, rather than fold, many more times than out of position. Three or four times more maybe. If my opponents on my right are people I consider weak players, I would play a lot more hands against them if I am in a good position. It depends how good the players are on your right.

If you are in a late position you don’t want too many players to see the flop, you don’t want too many players to see the hand. If you scare the other players off, it doesn’t matter. You will still take a small pot.

Playing in an early position is difficult, especially for an amateur player in a 6 or 7 handed game. Be prepared to throw your cards away, even with hands like 10 Queen off suit, even 10 King off suit. 6 9 suited under the gun I would fold nine times out of ten times. Don’t play too many hands of position!

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