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Get the best of Sporcle when you Go Orange.This ad-free experience offers more features, more stats, and more fun while also helping to support Sporcle. Thank you for becoming a member. A poker game, post-flop, begins with the small blind, and then moves around the table clockwise. This allows us to label some positions as early, some as middle and some as late positions. Now, the hijack seat is located two seats away from the button (which is the last position), and one seat away from the cut-off position.
Here are the terms and definitions frequently used in poker generally.
If you are playing No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker, you would be sited in either “9” or “6” maximum tables of your choice, in due course of time you shall also experience 7 Max & 8 Max Tables on the go.
9 Max & 6 Max TableThe following terms mean a certain position that you hold currently in the board
| Early Position | Middle Position | Late Position | |
| SB= Small Blind | UTG = Under the Gun | LJ = LoJack | BTN = Button /Dealer |
| BB = Big Blind | HJ= HiJack | CO= Cut Off |
For Nerds & Historians: The above-mentioned names are fanciful etymologies such phrase first appears in 18th century US writing and It is only vaguely related to its general meaning.
Just like Cricket or Football, your position plays a vital role in your game/hand in Poker too.
PLAYING STYLES: What playing tactics to choose
| Loose | Passive | Tight | Aggressive |
| Playing too many hands, including weak ones. | Frequent calls and rare raises. | Playing strong hands and folding weak ones. | Frequent bets and raises, and calling rarely. |
The style used by almost all successful poker pros is an Aggressive approach
Tight-aggressive Strategy
Playing tight and aggressive means waiting for profitable situations and consistently taking advantage of them.
Tight play:
Tight means that you don’t play everything that falls into your hands. There are many cards that look weak and actually are weak. However, there are also some hands that look strong, but aren’t, such as King Jack. After the flop, you don’t need to see every showdown simply because you have a pair. Knowing when you are to beat or when the price is too high can save you a lot of money.
Aggressive play:
There is one simple rule in Texas Hold’em: You don’t want to be the one to just call, i.e., the one who just goes along with the bets, without betting or raising yourself.
In a poker game, your profit is a result of your opponents’ mistakes. And when do people make mistakes? When they have to make an important decision under pressure.
ThingstoRemember:
At a table, with nine players you should only play 15% to 20% of the hands you are dealt, on average. This means you should fold before the flop in four out of five cases.
It is also profitable if all your opponents fold their cards, giving you the pot without having to show your hand. This is only possible if you are betting and raising a lot.
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Position in poker refers to the order in which players are seated around the table and the related poker strategy implications. Players who act first are in 'early position'; players who act later are in 'late position'; players who act in between are in 'middle position'.[1] A player 'has position' on opponents acting before him and is 'out of position' to opponents acting after him.[2] Because players act in clockwise order, a player 'has position' on opponents seated to his right, except when the opponent has the button and certain cases in the first betting round of games with blinds.
Position in Texas hold 'em[edit]
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The primary advantage held by a player in late position is that he will have more information with which to make better decisions than players in early position, who will have to act first, without the benefit of this extra information. This advantage has led to many players in heads-up play raising on the button with an extremely wide range of hands because of this positional advantage.[3] Also, as earlier opponents fold, the probability of a hand being the best goes up as the number of opponents goes down.
The blinds are the least desirable position because a player is forced to contribute to the pot and they must act first on all betting rounds after the flop. Although the big blind has a big advantage on the first round of betting, it is on average the biggest money losing position.[citation needed]
Texas hold 'em example[edit]
There are 10 players playing $4/$8 fixed limit. Alice pays the $2 small blind. Bob pays the $4 big blind. Carol is under the gun (first to act). If Carol has a hand like K♥ J♠, she may choose to fold. With 9 opponents remaining to act, there is approximately a 40% chance that at least one of them will have a better hand than Carol's like A-A, K-K, Q-Q, J-J, A-K, A-Q, A-J or K-Q. And even if no one does, seven of them (all but the two players in the blind) will have position on Carol in the next three betting rounds.
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Now instead, suppose David in the cut-off position (to the right of the button) has the same K♥ J♠ and all players fold to him. In this situation, there are only three opponents left to act, so the odds that one of them has a better hand are considerably less (only around 16%). Secondly, two of those three (Alice and Bob) will be out of position to David on later betting rounds. A common play would be for David to raise and hope that the button (the only player who has position on David) folds. David's raise might simply steal the blinds if they don't have playable hands, but if they do play, David will be in good shape to take advantage of his position in later betting rounds.
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References[edit]
- ^'Poker Tables'. Carbon Poker. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
- ^'Poker Position'. CardsChat. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
- ^Badger, Steve. 'Changing Position in Poker'. Steve Badger Poker Strategy. Retrieved June 29, 2017.