Here is a hand that illustrates the importance of position in NL holdem. If you have position and are willing to represent a good hand it become very profitable to raise in late position. Think about it what will people limp with in Middle to late position? Crappy hands! so take there money I make a lot of bb/100 hands in NL holdem by "stealing" weak limpers money. Just make sure that you are willing to invest some money on the flop...if your not then maybe NL holdem isn't for you.

***** Hand History for Game 1604497620 *****
$100 NL Hold'em - Thursday, February 17, 11:29:01 EDT 2005
Table Disco Lights (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 3: tjabokomp ( $256.25 )
Seat 4: Zoe21 ( $98.55 )
Seat 5: Risto777 ( $105.85 )
Seat 7: FoltzyAce35 ( $175.3 )
Seat 8: xtec1 ( $51.2 )
Seat 9: nomasrios ( $77.75 )
Seat 10: wireless2121 ( $83.6 )
Seat 2: acesup86 ( $97 )
tjabokomp posts small blind [$1].
Zoe21 posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to acesup86 [ 8s 7s ]
popo1651 has joined the table.
Risto777 folds.
FoltzyAce35 calls [$2].
xtec1 folds.
nomasrios folds.
wireless2121 calls [$2].
acesup86 raises [$10].
tjabokomp folds.
Zoe21 folds.
smash85 has joined the table.
FoltzyAce35 calls [$8].
wireless2121 calls [$8].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9h, 4d, 9d ]
FoltzyAce35 checks.
wireless2121 checks.
acesup86 bets [$25].
FoltzyAce35 folds.
wireless2121 folds.
acesup86 does not show cards.
acesup86 wins $56.35