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Playing hands from the small blind.
DrSharp
Member Posts: 1,213
Not this particular hand necessarily, but firstly, what sort of range is acceptable to make up the blinds and what sort of pot odds do you need?
To the hand itself, Should i make the blind up? Should i squeeze in this situation and raise? Is it a simple, snap fold pre?
Obviously i havent played the hand to hit the ace, i have played it to hit a monster for approx 0,5% of my stack. I have top pair, dodgy kicker, do i lead out? Do i realise i didnt really play it for this reason and try and control the pot by checking?
Fill your boots, any advice on small blind play would be helpful as its a bit of a grey area that could be a small leak in my game. Thanks.
| Player | Action | Cards | Amount | Pot | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DrSharp | Small blind | £0.02 | £0.02 | £4.25 | |
| AlexM | Big blind | £0.04 | £0.06 | £3.60 | |
| Your hole cards |
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| lindy | Call | £0.04 | £0.10 | £0.83 | |
| BIGVAL88 | Call | £0.04 | £0.14 | £3.40 | |
| DrSharp | Call | £0.02 | £0.16 | £4.23 | |
| AlexM | Check | ||||
| Flop | |||||
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| DrSharp | ???? | ||||
Comments
So saying that call pre I fine by me.
In limped pot I would lead out and fold to raise.
In a tournament then this would be a good spot for a squeeze.
I tend to go through stages on how i play these and cant seem to find the right way to do it.
As always though. If your good post, youre going to be able to lose the min and maximise windows of luck.
As long as you have a clear cut sense of where your going to take the hand I dont think it has to be a bad thing. It is borderline spew for the majority. But in the instances where your opponents are going to pay off the connected hand I believe you can make it worth your time over a large sample. But if the table are good enough to recognise a pure bink flop I may not.
But equally we have to keep some unpredictability in our game. If we simply 3 bet or fold from the blinds its going to become hard to get paid.
Am usually always going to be happy to pay half a blind getting in the region of 5/1 though. Even to c/f majority. All decisions likely to be made on flop where continuing however, unless we pick up a draw worth continuing with.
I dont believe making up the blind Oop has to be a negative thing though.
If a player has the tendancy to pay off with TPNK or not read boards well, then yeah put it on the back burner. Otherwise it keeps us semi unprecditable and also provides a window of opportunity to get lucky.
If I raised I prob bet that flop, as played I c/c. c/r would be terrible readless imo
In general in deciding whether to call or complete from SB multiway how likely villains are to play badly postflop when you hit is important, as getting paid oop against good players in these kind of situations is tough
What do i do on the turn?