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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: