Anyone anything better to add than vital?
Why?
No, no matter what will be said in this thread after that post...there will be nothing more important said than "vital".
It simply can not be over stated hom important position is in poker. We all know the importance of it in NL HE, right?
I reckon in PL it's even more important.
It decides what hands you can play...what hands you can't play.
It gives you extra information about your oppos, it with holds info about you from your oppos.
It allows you to control the pot, to inflate the pot.
It allows you to win pots you wouldn't normally win with your hand.
and, in PL where a lot of people limp in and will call one raise from an EP raiser, it allows you to bet people off as when it comes to you the pot is of such a size that you can actually get people to fold.
The player in position has such a massive advantage vital is the only word to describe it IMO.