Finally, a point about position relative someone who raises very liberally
pre-flop. Sitting to his left isn't necessarily the best, or even a good,
option. The reason for that is that you're going to be tempted to play fairly
loose against his openings and run into someone behind you either taking a stab
at the pot or just having a good hand. So fairly frequently when you either call
or raise him you're going to be picked off by someone behind you. Depending on
the players at the table this may or may not be a big factor.
However, there is a very good reason for sitting to Frenchy's right. That reason
is that by doing so you get relative position on the table every time Frency
comes in for a raise. You get to see how every players behind him reacts to his
raise and will be able to put them on a much smaller range of hands than if
you're the first to react to Frenchy.
Compare the two following scenarios depending on whether you sit on Frenchy's
left or right when he raises.
A lot of people decides to call Frenchy with speculative hands.
If you re-raise to his left you'll likely get heads-up with Frenchy which
certainly is ok.
If you just call you'll sit in a pretty bad spot on the flop since you have an
unpredictable player to you left and one or more players behind with position.
If you sit to his right and just limp in with every hand you'll play you'll now
be able to put Frenchy on a wide range and the rest of the players on
non-raising hands (against Frenchy no less). This means you've got a golden
stealing opportunity. Or at least an opportunity to gamble with Frenchy while
having a big overlay.
If you choose to re-raise here you're able to get in a *lot* more money pre. As
well as getting a lot of dead money in the pot generated by speculative hands
first calling then folding as opposed to them just folding straight away.
If you just call that's cool too since you'll still be able to see how the field
reacts to Frenchy before deciding what to do with your hand.
If someone has a strong hand behind Frenchy you're clearly much better of to his
right than to his left. If you're on his left and try to isolate you're going to
put in a lot more money than you would have if you just limped in for 1bb before
Frenchy and then got a read on the player putting in the raise.
The basic premise behind sitting to Frenchy's right is to exploit players trying
to exploit Frenchy. Which people usually do by calling with a wide, but
not-so-strong range of hands. That's a big mistake in that it allows you to get
a pretty good idea of what they're holding, while they will have no clue of what
you're up to before you're able to slam in a really big raise against their
well-defined, moderate holdings.
A final point in favor of sitting to Frenchy's right is that it allows you to
minimize the penalty of playing in early position. Since you'll be able to make
big raises pre-flop when in early position and Frenchy raises you, you can
basically reduce the betting to 2 or 3 street game greatly reducing the value of
having position on you. This will of course require you to gamb00l like crazy
and occasionally get your money in as an underdog.
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