Position, Is it REALLY that important in some games.

[Arnfinn Madsen]

Maybe you are not aware of it during playing, but when you have position you gather more information before conducting your action. Information is valuable in poker, since it improves the quality of your decisions (it probably already does for you to).

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Maybe you are not aware of it during playing, but when you have position you gather more information before conducting your action. Information is valuable in poker, since it improves the quality of your decisions (it probably already does for you to).

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True, information is one of the things u gain from possition. However... for the information to be worth anything, your opponents must understand what their hand is worth themself. And THIS is very often not the case for many players at 0.5/1. But the little information u get is better than none...

[Gregg777]

There are a lot of +EV situations in position regardless of your cards. There are very few of these out of position.

[hexag1]

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4. Calling stations negate the value of position.


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quite the opposite. the value of position is magnified when your [out of position] opponent is a calling station.
in a heads up pot for example:
when you are in position against a calling station, you know what he has done and what he will most likely do. you can bet with the best of it and get paid off, or you can check behind with drawing hands and get free cards. or you can check behind on the turn or river when you think he has drawn out on you. when you have position in holdem, omaha, or stud, your calling station opponent will often give you very valuable free cards on key later streets. on these streets the edge that your hand has over his is increased [because there are less cards/streets to come] and the betting limits are increased, so you can save more when youre behind, and win more when youre ahead.
compare this when youre against a tricky/aggressive player [the opposite of the calliin' station] he checks, you bet in position, and... you dont know what hes going to do, he might checkraise with a draw, or a better hand. he might even just call with a hand that youre drawing dead to.
in short, position kiks azzz.