Yes, it is all about position. Whether it is the original defining text or one masquerading under the name Super System II or such — position can mean everything.
There are two bad things we can do in the name of position:
- misuse (Fancy Play Syndrome against those who wouldn’t recognize it if it bit them.)
- abuse (You start beating a dieing horse and then he’s dead.)
As a tournament progresses, the importance of position is reduced. Late blind structures allow positional bluffing from the early positions. With abusive blinds, the out of position move indicates some strength and those behind understand it takes a bigger hand to call than to make a move and more respect is given the hand than it might deserve.
In early play though, it is seldom that you’ll ignore position with reasoned success. People play for a variety of reasons. Many want to gamble early and often. They have a joy in bluffing and sucking out. Against such play, the risk:reward is skewed against us. We don’t have good reads.
As much as we might rile against a style, they can all work. Tournaments are won by table captain types that play the tournament in a riskier manner. We’ve a blogger/boss here that loves the style. In his recent video blog he thought PL Omaha was possibly his best game