Poker Table Position Strategy
Author: J Finney

When you refer to your position at the table, you should think
about the place you have in the poker room relative to the
player that is the dealer for that specific hand. If you are
the dealer for this hand, you find yourself positioned last to
bet, so your position is the best as you can see everyone's
reactions and bets before you make up your mind.

The player that has to bet the small blind is the player
situated in the left of the dealer and after the pre-flop
betting he or she will be the first to bet from now on.

The player that has to bet the big blind is the player situated
in the right of the dealer and after the pre-flop betting he or
she will have an early position. This position, as the small
blind, is an obliged position, which means they cannot fold in
the pre-flop

The player that has the position situated to the left go the
big blind has the first action when cards are first dealt.
Because the bets are placed in a clockwise motion, the ones
that have to bet or decide later are the ones that are in late
position and they are the one that have many advantages. They
can think and see what everybody else is doing before acting
and place bids accordingly. They can even gamble a little if
the odds tell them too. They are most likely to lose less and
they most certainly are the most confident players at the
table.

The early positions presented above must select their hands
carefully, if they have clearly a bad hand and they can fold
they should do it. They have no privileges when it comes to
decide the actions, so it's better if they are more careful
than the late positions. Let's just say you are the first
player to act, meaning the player situated to the left of the
big blind. And you have these two cards: a ten and a Jack of
different colors. The player right after you raises the bid,
and all the other players in the games decide to give up and
they fold. And now, you cannot change your bet, now you are
being left alone with that player that stands a big chance of
actually having a good hand and there is nothing you can do.

But, thinking from a different perspective, if you are the
dealer you can clearly see how all they others are betting and
also estimate the value of the pot and adjust it if necessary.
If a dealer raises after a bet, all the others must act again,
and is they betted once it is quite possible to do it again and
maybe even again until the dealer is satisfied with the size of
the pot.


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