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Originally Posted by NickMPK
There is a balancing disadvantage between the blinds and the player who is straddling. That is true with button straddles and UTG straddles.
Yes, you're right. (Setting my tongue in cheek answer aside
It's true that other players in the game can make choices that put you at a disadvantage and puts different seats at more or less of a disadvantage.
But like others have said, you can counter-balance. You can start straddling and regain some of the balance. You can encourage seat 2 to do the same, and point out that if only some people straddle, everyone else loses some advantage.
You can also seat change and be on the other side of the straddlers, once seat 4 opens up, and benefit from it rather than suffer from it.
The point is not that it's more or less advantageous but that its NOT UNFAIR. Unfair would mean only SOME people can exercise the option.
But everyone can exercise the option, and it changes the game, so not accepting it and complaining that it's unfair is just whinging.