Hello,

So, I've read a few books on poker, and they all explain that position is a very strong factor in how you should play, i.e. the earlier your position, the better your hands have to be to call/bet/raise.

However, most of these books use a 10 seat table as an example, and say that seats 1-4 are 'early', 5-7 are 'middle' and 8-10 are 'late'. But nowhere have I found an explanation of how this changed as the number of players is reduced.

So my first question is this:

Say you start a hand with 6 players rather than 10? Are seats 1-4 still 'early' and seats 5-6 'middle', with no late seats, or do you scale it so that you still have early, middle and late seats in a similar proportion to a 10-seat table (i.e. 1-2 early, 3-4 middle, 5-6 late?), if you do scale it, how do you scale it for N players?

Secondly, do you constantly update your conception of your 'position' as a hand is played out? i.e. you're at seat 5 in a 10 seat table (middle position), but at a later point in the game 2 players in front of you have folded... are you still in seat '5' or are you now in seat '3' and hence in an early position?