PRE-FLOP STRATEGIES | POKER POSITION IS EVERYTHING The best poker players are almost always those who understand the primacy of position and how to use it to their advantage. At its core, poker is a game of incomplete information – you simply don't know what cards the other players are holding, and your strategy going forward will be based on calculated assumptions of what cards or combinations your opponents possess, and related to that, how you deal with the hand you're dealt, so to speak.