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When you are playing from the blinds, and is selective with your starting hands as well. An exception occurs when you are in the small blind and everyone folds to turn before the flop. With just the big blind remaining to act, you should raise with hands Mid force, especially if you find that your opponent will not cause you problems. Even against a more difficult opponent, you should continue to increase from the small blind with smaller pairs 8-8 and suit different hands until A-J.
 
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That works a 1/3rd of the time then the 1/3rd they suppose to win you up on the 50-50 bonus bet.
 
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most times dependant on the size of your stack in comparison to the size of your opponents stack, based on antes.l you will want to steal the blinds, but if you are reraised you might have to give up on the hand dependant on what your holding is, and if you are called then you arent ever looking to overplay your hand here,

Most of the time it does become villain dependant, and if your opponent is better then you, then trying to steal his blind may become your downfall
if you think your even par or better then your opponent then you stand a chance of coming ahead, and finally if he lets you steal then always go for the steal, you will win more chips then lose in the long run
 
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Limping is a great strategy with weak hands like 78s with medium strength like QJ and with strong hands like AA.... this way you can plan to fold call or 3 bet and keep them guessing too... also when they check you play against the weakest portion of their range (what they did not see fit to raise with)
 
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I have no problem gambling blind vs. blind and its probably the one spot I am over aggro. Players continually attack from the small blind because they are just told unopened pots from button on are great spots.
Without getting to into range I play wider depending on how often the player attempts this. Might even establish my tendency to fold early on in a tourney to catch them when the game is farther along and the pot is bigger.
 
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Off course all about position! We are sure to play strong and together deep position because we want know how opponent will act. All depend on position!!!
Believe me!!!
 
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The options are many and varied. It depends on many factors
 
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This is a kind of "it works every time but once" thing. Just like going "all in" too much.

You raise and I call, you miss and c-bet, all of a sudden you are getting into a big pot with very little. I'd be selective with my raises and not just raise because of position. You can certainly open your range up a LOT, but I'm not raising hands like 78. You will end up winning small pots and losing big ones.
 
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From skill of opponent's depends our game pre-flop and post-flop (bet size, call / check, and so on). The spectrum of hands should be expanded, depending on what position you occupy and how much fish is playing with us.
 
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When you are playing from the blinds, and is selective with your starting hands as well. An exception occurs when you are in the small blind and everyone folds to turn before the flop. With just the big blind remaining to act, you should raise with hands Mid force, especially if you find that your opponent will not cause you problems. Even against a more difficult opponent, you should continue to increase from the small blind with smaller pairs 8-8 and suit different hands until A-J.

I agree that you should defiantly be raising those hands however I feel that you can open that up a bit to include 22+, Ax, kxs, k8+, q8s+ J9s+ T9+ 45s+

If your opponent is 3betting you a lot chances are he is doing so with weak hands so you can start 4 betting him with hands like A4s KTs 88. now that I think about it I may prefer to call with the 88 but anyway.
 
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Depends very much of the opponent and the way he acts after raises and the cards that he usually is ready to 3-bet or to involve by some other way.
Also we must pay attention in the difference of the stacks.
 
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I have no problem gambling blind vs. blind and its probably the one spot I am over aggro.
 
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