Upswing Poker -- Ryan Fee On Playing In Early Position

Want to get better at poker? Tired of losing in your local home game or looking to go pro playing no-limit hold’em?

Who better to learn from then World Series of Poker bracelet winner and high stakes cash game regular Ryan Fee, who has more than $3 million in lifetime live tournament earnings. Fee has teemed up with friend and fellow bracelet winner Doug Polk to offer the Upswing Poker Lab

The Upswing Poker Lab is a poker training course taught by Fee and Polk that is updated regularly with in-depth learning modules, theory videos, and a wealth of information to make you a better poker player.

Upswing Poker has teamed up with Card Player to bring you some exclusive poker strategy content. In this video Fee discusses the difficulties of playing from early position.

“The five players [left to act] are all three betting you with the top 4 to 6 percent of hands when you raise under the gun, whereas when you raise from the button the blinds are willing to three bet with much weaker hands,” says Fee in the video. “What that means you can’t raise these more marginal hands because you will have raised and be up against a three bet range that you can’t defend against.”

“The other reason [playing from early position is tough] is that you are out of position,” continued Fee. “You will also face calls from what will on average be stronger than the hands the would call with from the button or the blinds if you were in later position. On top of that, you will be out of position on later streets and there is intrinsic value lost because of that.”

Check out the full video at the top of the story for more of Fee’s analysis of playing from early position.

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