Cards are mentioned in this book, as one weapon in your arsenol (in addition to position and chip stack). He compares each weapon to a weapon in a game of Rock Paper Scissors. Chip Stack being Rock, Cards being Paper and Position being scissors. In this formula, like in the game, Your Chip Stack beats your Position (rock beats scissors), Your Cards beat your Chip Stack (Paper beats rock) and your position beat your cards (scissors beat paper).
In other words you can play a hand without position if you have a big stack because of the effects your stack will have and chips trump position. Likewise, your chip stack can not scare away premium holdings no matter what their stack sze, thus cards trump chips.... and finally you can play a marginal to bad hand as long as you have good positioning, thus position trumps cards.
He mentions how each are important, however players usually bust out of a tournament on good cards (when they are either outdrawn or up against monsters), rather than when making positional plays
Im about 2/3 through this book so far -- interesting read to say the least
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"Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents."
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