Besides your own cards and those of your opponents, the so-called position is an important thing to consider when playing a pot. Before every hand is dealt, the dealer is determined with the „button“ that rotates clockwise around the table. All the other positions depend on the button.
You can divide the table into:
The Early Position (blue) (EP)
The Middle Position (green) (MP)
The Late Position (red) (LP)
The Small and Big Blinds (SB and BB)
The system is the following:
Both blinds are sitting behind the dealer which should be obvious. The late position includes the dealer and his right neighbour (cut off, player 6). With the cut-off’s right neighbour, the middle position starts and includes exactly three players (player 5 through 3). The following players are in the early position (player 2 and 1). That means if there are ten instead of nine players, the early position is expanded to three players. If there are only eight players at the table, there's only one player in the early position. With only seven players, there's no early position any more.
If there are six players the table looks like this:
With only six players, the middle position only has two players, and so on.
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