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Table Position

Position plays an extremely important part in poker and you need to be aware this at all times.

Depending on what position you are in dictates how you should play a hand and will help you make a decision on what you should with certain hands.

UTG - Under The Gun

This is the first person to act and is always first after the big blind. In this position only premium hands are played as you are playing all the other hands at the table and the chances of a good hand being against you are quite big and so you must make sure that you have a big hand.

Early Position

These are the positions who are next to act after under the gun, again in these early positions you should only be playing premium hands because you have most of the table to play against and therefore you more likely to run into a strong hand.

Middle Position

Here you are able to start to play more starting hands as you know you are only playing approximately half the table so the medium hands become stronger in this position.

Late Position

In these positions you can start to play marginal hands as they will only be up against 2 or 3 hands. Therefore an ace in this position is strong where as in all other positions it would be a weak holding.

This should become one of the first factors that you need to bear in mind when deciding whether to play a hand or not.

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