Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 95
The more streets in a hand are played, the more important position becomes. So we want loose (aggressive) players to our right, tight on our left. You'll get to play lots of pots with the loose players in position and will take them beyond the flop fairly often. You do not want to play many pots with these players out of position, but you do want them to be there when you are in control of the hand as they tend to part with their money easily.
Players to our left have positional advantage on us so we want them to play as little pots as possible. A tight player makes the least use of his positional advantage. Tight players are also more easy to steal the blinds from.
We want bad players to our right, good on our left. Again, these are players you want to play as many pots with as possible. Acting after a bad player has joined the pot but before good players have a chance to do so gives you the opportunity to isolate the bad player.
We want big stacks on our right and small stacks on our left. Winning money in position is far easier than winning money out of position. The opposite is true for losing money. So, we want to have position on those we can win the most money from and want to be out of position against those we can lose the least to.
