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Hi Vojta, thank you for the thread on tournaments.

Blind vs blind....it folds around to me in the SB - do you ever give the BB a walk?

Do you raise a standard amount here from the SB?

In theory you should fold around 15 % of the time. In some tough ICM spots like final table or bubble with a big stack on BB, it might be higher, even 50 %, but sometimes when you are the big stack it can also be zero. The main action is just a limp, raises are used a bit less, especially deepstacked. Anb obviously shallower there will be lot of openjams.

I would often fold even less than 15 %, because people generally play pretty bad on BB, mainly folding too much, so I can get them to fold more preflop but also postflop.

Extremely shallow around 10bb it might be a minraise, then like 2,3x 2,5x.. around 20bb standard is around 3bb and eventually deeperstacked the standard size is between 3,5-4x.


Couple of examples here:

 

[Poker_Mike]

In general I am not a fan of limping the SB in Battle of the Blinds.

My reason is - I am not offering the BB a chance to fold preflop. And, the BB gets a chance to flop a good hand even with his junk.

The main action is just a limp, raises are used a bit less, especially deepstacked. Anb obviously shallower there will be lot of openjams.

In live events - whenever I limp the SB - if the BB is a knowledgeable player they then shove on me preflop. So I have stopped doing that.

Extremely shallow around 10bb it might be a minraise, then like 2,3x 2,5x.. around 20bb standard is around 3bb and eventually deeperstacked the standard size is between 3,5-4x.

Now you talk about reasonable raises. When considering these standard raises I always ask myself - what does the BB think I am communicating to him about my hand with the amount I am raising.

Is the real question whether or not I want the BB to fold or if I want to keep him on the hook?

I appreciate your perspective.

 

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