Science Fair Project Encyclopedia Position in poker is the order
in which players are seated around the table, and the strategic
and tactical consequences of this. On any betting round, the
player who acts first (called being "under the gun") has a
distinct disadvantage compared to those who act later (who are
said to be in "late position"), because the later players will
always have more information on which to base their decisions.
You are said to "have position" on players who act before you in
a betting round, and are said to be "out of position" to those
players who act after you. Because players act in clockwise
order, a player seated on your left is said to "have position"
on you in the game in general (not just a particular betting
round), because he will act after you far more often than he
will act before you (the latter will only occur rarely, such as
when you have the button in a rotating-deal game). It is said
that money flows clockwise at a poker table, your goal being to
interrupt the flow as i