Positional Stats

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From here I get this:

"EP Early Position - First 2 seats on FR, first to act at 6-MAX"

The italics is mine and key to my issue. This is very much standard and at a full table (6 or FR) I have no problems with the logic. However, let's look at a 6 max table and let us say that there is a seat vacant (or player sitting out); how does this effect what/who gets called EP? In particular I'm thinking of this scenario:

Table 'AnyYouName' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: VillainA
Seat 2: Hero
Seat 3: VillainB
Note: seat 4 is occupied but the player is sitting out.
Seat 5: VillainD
Seat 6: VillainE
VillainA: posts small blind
Hero: posts big blind
VillainC: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [4s 6c 6h Kc]
VillainB: raises
VillainD: folds
VillainE: folds
VillainA: folds
Hero: folds
Uncalled bet returned to VillainB

In my assessment, VillainB was in EP (specifically UTG), raised first in and everyone folded. Thus, VillainB's stat for raise_first_in(EP) should increment. Is this correct or does the missing player in seat 4 change the dynamics of the positional stats?

[fozzy71]

The player sitting out is not called anything. He is not part of the hand so he wont show in hm2 reports or affect the UTG/EP classification. If he's out it's considered 5 handed.

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Thank you Fozzy. However, my question was whether or not Villain B is still considered to be in EP and that his raise_first_in stat would be incremented as such.

Edit: Can I assume that HM2 assigns positional stats according to the number of seats at a table, not according to the number of bodies occupying those seats?

[fozzy71]

There is no EP in that hand since its 5 handed.

Positions are determined based on number of players dealt into hand - http://hm2faq.holdemmanager.com/ques...t+the+Table%3F

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[udbrky]

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