When playing online poker position is very important, but it’s not everything. Position plays an important role in stealing small pots when no one shows aggression in a hand, or when you have a big hand and other players are betting into you. But position isn’t everything in online poker.

It’s more important in no-limit poker than it is in limit or pot limit. Limit poker offers players good pot odds most of the time, so playing hands from any position is more common. In a no-limit game it’s easier to push opponents off of a hand because you can make a large bet into a pot after everyone has passed on it.

Players online tend to be more aggressive than live game players, so position bets are often called. It’s tougher to get away with late position bluffs because everyone expects the late position player to make a bet.