If no one enters the pot and the small blind raises are pretty much all hands worth a call against a loose small blind? 3-2 (the worst heads up hand) is 32% against a random hand. You are getting 3-1 on your money and have position on the hand.

no.

If his raising range crushes you, your pos won't make up for it.
Also depends how likely he is to take hands too far and your ability to play HU

depends on sb, the type of game you're sitting in...defending with every hand is stupid...IMO

there's an article in cardplayer, on "defending" blinds, i'll find the link but i think it is a GREAT article for people that swear by defendingtheir blinds to the death...with any hand?!??? thats ****ing insane...lol

I think I defend my BB pretty liberally and I'm at 50%, but that includes CO and button steals. I imagine it's higher than that (tho probably only a little) for steals from the SB.

It depends greatly on my opponent. If he raises every time, I'm going to look to capitalize on that. If he raises one time out of 20, I'm gonna let him have that one blind.

Jeff

The cardplayer article talks about defending from late position raises, not small blind raises. There's a difference.

I think that if it isnt 100%, it should be close to it. Maybe knock off the bottom 10%.

Okay, I think that's where I'm losing a lot of money. i'll have to post my #'s for defending blinds but they are not good. I become super tight in the blinds, even without a raise. Something like 80-90% fold to steal? Eek.

http://archiveserver.twoplustwo.com/showth...w=&sb=5&o=&vc=1

thanks for the very good link

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