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Learn How to Avoid Sucking At Poker

• 31.06.2025 1:38 pm
• Helen
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Playing in position

I this article of the beginner series you will learn how playing in position can influence how good you become at poker and avoid sucking at the game. Like it is known to every poker player, position is very crucial in any game of poker. In poker, being in position simply means that you are the last player to act in a hand. The worst places in terms of position in a game if poker is the blinds. This is because, once the initial betting round closes, you will have to be the first to act for the rest of that hand.

Being in position will always give you the advantage of getting the most information on the hand that all the other players and this is with no regards to the poker skills you have, it simply comes automatically with position. If you play Texas hold'em often you know that information is the most valuable asset at a table.

Why it is important to play in position

• Playing in position will give you simple opportunities to bluff on opponents
• You always have more information that all the opponents before you act
• As the last person to act, you got better control of the size of the final pot
• You have the chance to make more sure value bets as the last act

Look at this scenario for better understanding of the importance of position; player number 1 and player number 2 are playing in a hand of 1.5million, fifty thousand – heads up challenge online, the winner of this game will get this money and an added amount from a side bet.

The two players are said to be the best online poker players in the whole world and the statistics from all hands they played show this with no doubt. When the money won in and out of position is compared for these two players, you find that they are the same for the two players; when in position, both get substantial profits and they both equally loose when they play out of position. As much as they are taking part in the same games with the same opponents, being in position is the determining factor of whether they win or loose millions.

This is to say that, if one player decided to allow the other player to play in position through out, them the player in position would definitely dominate the world of poker. Therefore, it is important you try as much as possible to play in position in as many of the big pots as possible, regardless of the kind of poker you play. Playing out of position in most large pots is ultimately recipe for disaster. It is said that playing out of position is the same as walking down a dark street without a flashlight as you do not know what might come out of either sides.