New players still often ask me about position and why it is so important. They see it being talked about it in almost every hand, but the subject seems more abstract than concrete to them. This article and video can help that. Once you learn the basics of playing the game of Texas hold'em, one of the first strategies that you will need to comprehend in the game concerns your position in any given hand. After you've played a few hands you'll realize that your relative position at the table changes every hand. That's because the dealer button moves one position clockwise around the table in order to have a fair distribution of players at the table paying blinds.
I got a hand from a subscriber who was in this $10 multi-table poker tournament. He wanted to know if he could get away from the hand, which was in the late stages and looks to be 3 or 4 tables left. So it was getting close to the final table and some big money. This is how he described it:
Posted in the TournamentIndicatorFourm> So it’s Sunday morning I’m sitting in the library (bathroom) reading a couple of pages of a Christmas present I got from my wife “The Theory of Poker” by David Sklansky. To say this book is dry is like saying the Sahara Desert is wet. Anyway I come across the Fundamental Theorem of Poker in Chapter 3.
I am quitting online poker and becoming a salesperson in an upscale womens shoe store.
After a month of relentless, horrendous, and simply preposterous beats in online poker tournaments at Full Tilt, I have decided to take up a new career.
Ok you're probably going to say in this case that I had such a strong hand it's really an easy thing to do, but that doesn't necessarily make it the right thing to do unless you can put your opponent on a resonaby competitive hand that you figure he is going to have a hrad tim folding.
Folding AK in the Midnight Madness Poker Tournament.
This is a tough hand from the early stages of the Midnight Madness poker tournament at Full Tilt Poker. Playing AK can be tough, but on a good flop you are usually going to chip up. I had a good flop in this hand, but a surprise bet by my opponent made me think twice if I was ahead. Here it is >