I know it could be alot of things, but having people give me their first thoughts is helpful, It gives me an idea where to start looking.Could be either defending too wide or not defending enough. Could be poor OOP play, could be not 3 betting vs steals enough... could be a lot of things. We need more info.
I know it could be alot of things, but having people give me their first thoughts is helpful, It gives me an idea where to start looking.
I see I have a problem defending to a 3 or 4-bet.
How many BBs should I feel comfortable with when defending and what range should I be looking at to defend with?
I do thatsometimes is good to call min bet from BB when someone steal . you can call sometimes and watch flop
People always steal in position to take the bb, simply if you dont have a hand fold! Wait your time then steal one yourselfI have noticed that I have been losing too many chips when in the SB and BB.
I'm winning chips in all other positions.
What reasons could be costing me in the blinds?
That all depends on pot odds. The better the price you get the wider your range should be.I know it could be alot of things, but having people give me their first thoughts is helpful, It gives me an idea where to start looking.
I see I have a problem defending to a 3 or 4-bet.
How many BBs should I feel comfortable with when defending and what range should I be looking at to defend with?
They should be. they will be making a killing if they are calling 84s every time they are getting 1:5, but they must know how to play out of posiiton well and know when to put the pedal to the metal with aggression and when to back off or fold.For example, early position raises 3BB, 2 players call, and when the decision is on you, its a 10.5 BB flop and you need to call only 2BB to win it all if a flop hits. The range of hands people call with is too vast, even some 84s are in there
I have seen a lot of people losing money that way, especially if some 822 flop comes and they think they are good
ive done the math once, and assuming the SB is capable of playing 100% mistake free postflop, they can open raise 100% of hands in the SB profitably, however some players like to have a SB limping range that can make even more but this is reserved for higher stakes. the problem is, no one is capable of playing mistake free, so the more mistake prone you are and the worse you are at playing out of position, the more you need to narrow you're range. i think most players should be open raising about 60-70% of hands in SB vs BBAnother situation is where only SB and BB are left, SB is tempted to raise and does, BB re-raises but both have bad hands.
ive done the math once, and assuming the SB is capable of playing 100% mistake free postflop, they can open raise 100% of hands in the SB profitably, however some players like to have a SB limping range that can make even more but this is reserved for higher stakes. the problem is, no one is capable of playing mistake free, so the more mistake prone you are and the worse you are at playing out of position, the more you need to narrow you're range. i think most players should be open raising about 60-70% of hands in SB vs BB
When you look at his stats, you can see that he sees 28% of the flops while on SB or BB, meaning he plays almost every 3rd hand out of position which is kinda a lot.
Actually, the math behind this was already done, and it says that 44.2% of the hands should raise from the SB in SB vs BB situations, where 84s is almost at the very bottom of it. However, unless a player is familiar with playing out of position, that range should be narrowed.
Let's say, due to what you stated, my calculation is off by 20% thats still 35.5-7.1=28.4%I don't see how it can be calculated from the information we have, keeping in mind that:
- checking from the BB leads to seeing a flop, but does not add to VPIP.
- completing from the SB does not always lead to seeing a flop, but adds to VPIP.
- raising from the blinds counts towards VPIP, but does not always lead to seeing a flop.
Let's say, due to what you stated, my calculation is off by 20% thats still 35.5-7.1=28.4%
I see I have a problem defending to a 3 or 4-bet.
How many BBs should I feel comfortable with when defending and what range should I be looking at to defend with?