Playing Out of Position as the Preflop Aggressor

The differences between playing in and out of position as the preflop aggressor. 
 
The term in position refers to the relative position the player is in to the button. This is important because the player closest to the button gets to act last on every post flop street and has an advantage because of it since he has more information – the player out of position has to act before him on every street, which means it’s also easier to extract value and realize his equity. OOP or Out Of Position is just the opposite to that, so when we find ourselves being further away from the button compared to our opponent. 
 
This is why the button is the best position in poker since we are guaranteed to act last after the flop. Knowing this we should adjust our strategy so that we get to play as many pots in position. We do this by flatting and 3betting most often when we are closer to the button and also come in for a raise with a wider range of hands if everybody folds to us. 
 
Unfortunately, we can’t guarantee ourselves to always play in position so we should look at how our strategy changes once that happens even though we aren’t going to be in such a situation most often. Two of the most frequent scenarios when we are forced to play OOP are when we defend the big blind and when our open raise gets flatted by an IP player.