Position is an extremely important

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Position is an extremely important concept for any poker player to understand. Having position on your opponents can allow you to dictate the action of a hand in a game like Hold’em where the closer you are to the button, the bigger your advantage.

Early Position:

From early position it is important that you play only the best of hands. The reason for this is that in a full ring game, there are 8 or 9 players to act after you before the flop.

Playing a speculative hand like a suited connector or a baby pair will have you burning up chips pretty quick. With so many players to act after you, there is a reasonable chance the pot is going to get raised.

If you are sitting in an aggressive game where nearly every pot is raised and re-raised pre-flop, there is no sense limping in with a 7-8 suited from early position. Suited connectors and small pairs should be trying to see flops as cheaply as possible because they won’t make a winning hand often enough and get it paid off, to have to call two or three bets pre-flop.

With big pairs in early position you should be raising and three-betting if you get re-raised. The main objective with big pairs is to thin the field as much as possible.

One pair hands are vulnerable in Limit Hold ‘em because unlike No-Limit, you can only bet a certain amount each round. Opponents are more likely to chase you down when it will only cost them one or two fixed bets to continue.

In an extremely aggressive game as described above you can safely eliminate any hand except 99 or better and AK. The hands you do play, you should be playing aggressively by raising the pot coming i