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How
To Play Your Blinds In Poker
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It
can be difficult playing from the big
and small blind in tournaments. From one
point of view, you wish to protect the
pot. However, on the other hand you feel
vulnerable because you are out of
position with a weaker hand than normal.
I have always been an advocate of
playing hands from the big blind
especially when your opponent is
aggressive and you have a shorter stack.
As long as you have a chip stack of less
than 25 blinds, you can win a lot of
chips if you protect your blinds by
re-raising or calling all in.
These are only two strategies. The first
call should be used from the big blind
because you are the last player to act
and you can call with less than any
other player in the game. From the small
blind, you would want to be more choosy
with your calling, unless there was more
than one opponent before the flop, which
would be a few callers and one raiser.
Calling from the big blind is done when
you have many somewhat bad hands and you
think the raiser is being aggressive and
is raising junk hands to simply steal
your blinds. As a result, when you call
the weaker hand, you could have the same
quality of hand as your opponent. The
best strategy then is to check the hands
that you hit to the aggressive opponent
and then re-raise all in with the
majority of hands that hit your hand
fairly well. You would want to do this
more often with a short chip stack than
with a bigger stack.
As an example: you have J9 and an
aggressive opponent opens with a smaller
raise from the cut off. You then will
call from the big blind with a stack of
18 times. The flop comes 9Q8 giving you
one pair as well as an inside straight
draw. This is a good enough hand to play
against an aggressive opponent. As a
result you check knowing he is likely to
bet any flop. The beginning pot is 6
blinds and your opponent bets 4 blinds
into the pot. You then become
ultra-aggressive and re-raise his bet
with your remaining big blinds. As a
result he has to call 13.5 big blinds to
win the pot, which is a huge risk for
your opponent. You would not see your
opponent do this unless he had a pair of
Queens or higher.
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