Terminology question about position

[MikeL]

At a 10-player table, the 2 players to the left of the BB are:
UTG
UTG+1

these are, with the SB and BB, are in "Early" position or EP. The Button and CO are "late" or LP and everyone
in between is considered "middle" or MP. So far, so good?

When you go down to a 6-player table, do you still have
"early" position or just middle and late? I ask this
because my hunch is that as the number reduces at the
table my hand selection becomes "looser" because I no
longer have the restrictive "early" position group.

Thanks!
Mike L.

[pho75]

I think of my position relative to the button. The more people that are behind you, the worse your postion.

So in a 10 handed game if I'm UTG I have 7 people behind, so I would consider myself in early position. I would raise with hands like AQ/99.

In a 6 handed game if I'm UTG I have 3 people behind, so I would consider myself in middle position. I would raise with AJ/88.

In a 4 handed game if I'm UTG I have 1 person behind, so I would consder myself at the CO. I would raise with AT/77.

If this reasoning is misguided please set me straight.

[sawseech]

only misguided if the blinds won't fold as they have more equity then you might expect in that case, which if you are exploitative would require a tighter open

[MikeL]

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only misguided if the blinds won't fold as they have more equity then you might expect in that case, which if you are exploitative would require a tighter open

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Could you elaborate on this?

[MikeL]

So, would it be correct to label the positions as follows:

Button (D) : Late
Cutoff (D-1) : Late
D-2 : Middle
D-3 : Middle
D-4 : Middle
D-5 : Middle
D-6 : Early
D-7 : Early
D-8 : Early
D-9 : Early

Thanks,
Mike L.

P.S. This is going to be used in the Analysis program I am
currently designing.

[sawseech]

AT vs random hand doesn't have that big an edge
AT vs 2 random hands has slightly bigger edge (far > 33%)

the ideal outcome with AT is to take down the blinds and if you can't it's better to tighten up the open to a point where their calls with be bigger mistakes or at least KNOWN to be bigger mistakes

why take the small edge and add variance when you can wait for a bigger edge and have happy variance