seat names

hi all
at a 9 player table we have
bb,sb,button,cut off,hijack
then 3 more seats then utg
do these 3 seats have names or 'nicknames'
besides EP,MP etc.
just curious
thanks

From the sb to the button it's. sb, bb, UTG, UTG+1, UTG+2, MP, Hijack, Cutoff, button.

Ha ha i didnt even know hijack was called it, i thought it was just utg+3 well i know now thnks.

Wow.. Few days ago I search about this on poker glossary here at CC but still confused. Now you explain it in simple sentence but covered all very nice one TPC, especially for new comer like me

Yep, good info. First time I saw that someone raised from MP I thought they were playing on an Army base....

cool post,me and a bud were in discussion about this over the weekend.ha i won a buck on the bet.

I was wondering about the name of some of these seats, great info, thanks for posting.

I call the seat one before the hijack (i.e. 3 off the button) the lojack, because it rhymes with hijack, it's a worse/lower position, and if you open try stealing with too many hands from there, you'll wind up on house arrest wearing one of those lojack bracelets.

Minor technicality: when playing 6-max, which seat name is left out?

Does it go:

SB, BB, UTG, MP, CO, BU?

or

SB, BB, UTG, HJ, CO, BU?

or

nobody cares and neither should you?

Here's the thing about seat names - there are two types of names:

• Names that are explicit
• Names that are not

I'm not talking about PG-13 v. NC-17. What I mean, is that "under the gun" (UTG) doesn't tell you anything at all about how you should play a hand from that seat. It doesn't tell you anything about how your opponent will play a hand from that position, either. UTG is 6 seats off the button in a 9-handed game. It's 3 seats off the button in a 6-handed game. And UTG is the button in a 3-handed game. So the designation "under the gun" doesn't mean anything at all in strategy terms. We should therefore get rid of it.

Middle position and early position are similar to under the gun. None of them mean anything explicit at all. Positions that are explicit:

Big Blind (BB): The player in the big blind
Small Blind (SB): The player in the small blind
Button (BTN): The player on the button
Cutoff (CO): The player to the immediate right of the button
Hijack (HJ): The player two seats to the right of the button
Lojack (LJ): The player three seats to the right of the button

These seat designations actually mean something. They can tell us what ranges we should be playing and what ranges our opponents are likely to hold. When everyone folds to the hijack, it doesn't matter whether you're playing 6-handed or 10-handed. You know what that position means. But if you say someone raises from middle position, that only gives you a vague notion of where that player is sitting and what his range is.

Nice post GB and you're right, it doesn't tell us how we should play our hands. Although the OP was asking about a nine handed table, is why I just made the simple post I made.

I'm also stealing your lojack seat name