While the seat to the immediate right of the poker en ligne dealer button is known as the ‘cutoff,’ the seat two to the right of the dealer has a name all of its own: ‘the hijack seat.’ As with raising from the cutoff, players who raise with any two cards from the hijack seat will often get more respect for their raise when they try to steal from the hijack seat, as it is less likely that someone would steal from two off the button than when they are the button.

Add to this the range that you have three poker hands where you will be in great position after the flop (the button, the cutoff, and the hijack seat) and you’ve got a lot of breathing room to work with as far as working to pick up loose blinds and antes while waiting for the big hands you actually want to play because of the quality of the cards.

Stealing from these positions in poker tournaments can often be the make or break mark for how deep you are able to go, as stealing your share of the blinds and antes especially late in the tournament can end up all the differences in keeping your chip stack fat and happy.

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