Also look to see if your cards are of the same suit because suited cards give you a hopeful chance by allowing for drawing a flush. Pairs are often your option and the higher the pair the better off you are. Regardless of where you are positioned, your hand will indicate how you should proceed.

If you’re positioned at the top of the betting round you can make smaller bets (slow-play) and wait to see how other players react to the flop.

Instead, try a strategy where you make smaller early bets to see some action before you try to over bet for other players to fold on the flop or turn (to tell them you drew something). Some players will use a bet-big-early strategy to win Texas Hold’em, and while this may work, it also means you’re more likely to lose-big. Narrowing the field means eliminating the other players for the hand. However, there is a bit of a balancing out for the first round if you are either the big or small blind, as you have a bet already on the table.

Players in early betting positions are the weakest as they have the least amount of information to go on.

But, the player immediately to the right of the dealer, sometimes known as the “cutoff,” can potentially be in a strong position over the button as he has the ability to bet big enough to force the button into action/to bet-big or fold.

The player who bets last will have the most information to work with as they’ve seen all other players bets/actions before making a move.

The button has the strongest position because he/she will always wait to bet last on the current hand.

Understanding where you are in relation to the dealer/button will help you develop a strategy to win Texas Hold’em. But, if one person deals all the time, then the button-position will rotate the table over time, otherwise the dealer job passes around. In Texas Hold’em the dealer and/or the button-position will be passed to the next player toward the left after each hand. Know what your position at the table means.

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