Middle Position in Texas Holdem Poker

Video Transcript

"Let's look now at how to play middle position. Middle position, its a lot like playing the early position. Especially, if you're in a nine or ten handed game. Now, something to think about is you can loosen up a little more. Whereas, you might fold jacks or tens from an earlier position. If you're in an unraised pot, and you look down and you see them, you'll play them. Now let's look at this scenario. You have a fold and and a fold from the first three positions. This person, clearly a middle position and sees nine / eights. As it happens, this person is a little loose. A loose aggressive player, a lag. They go ahead and they bet three times the big blind. Next position looks down, a pair of queens. Now, from any position pretty much, you're going to play these Hilton sisters pretty strong. Now, what do I do? I reraise, go to about six time the big blind, or seven times the big blind. Next hand jack/ ten with a raise and a reraise in front of me. I throw it away. that's pretty much how you should play middle position. You look down there's been one raise to you, and you look down and you see anything from a pair of sevens up, say a pair of sevens, to a pair of tens. See the flop. You see a premium hand, reraise. Lets play. "