Very useful information. Thanks.

However, and this is what makes poker such a great game perhaps, I would like to discuss the following:

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Information is power. Poker is a game of incomplete information. Your advantage comes from being able to increase the amount of information you have (put your opponents on hands) and decrease the information your opponents are privy to (mislead them in regard to your own hand).

With position you have the advantage of seeing how your opponents act before you give them any information about your own hand. No other single parameter play such a big role in poker.

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But poker players lie. If you consider being checked to on the button as reliable information, you are subject to a check/call check/raise from someone who has flopped the nuts. Conversely, a player out of position making a bluff at a pot may be erroneously considered strong by the player in position. Moroeover, a bet from position also gives information: the position player may not have a hand, he may just be playing his position. So why is position so important, when your opponents can be using the information that you are playing from position to not respect your calls/raises?