No Limit Texas Hold'em : How to play the Small Blind in Cash Game ?

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I wonder how you do play the small blind in Cash Game. Sometimes, there is a lot of limper, but you have a crappy hand, and I am not sure how much the pot odds (and implied odds) should be to limp in. Rag hands can put yourself in trouble, if you get top pair and low kicker. And you do not have position.

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A lot of people play far too loose from the SB in situations like this, I presume because they saw people doing it in the games on tv . . .



They don't show everything on TV. Maybe they show a guy limping in with 26o, but they didn't show him folding 10 hands in a row before that.

He could have played the 26 as a game theory move, or maybe he just got tired and was off his game for a moment during his third 12-hour tournament day.

Winning with 26 might be great TV, but (unless it's Gus Hansen) it may not be representative of what's really going on.

[RyoSaeba]

Nice knowledge sharing Harv. I do not have any more problem to fold hands at the SB unless there is a pot family. As a min-raise when I am BB, if I do not have a good hand to stand by it I let it go.

This is a little improvement in my play, and I am sure like big rivers are made by small ones, my poker play grows thanks of you, all the 2+2 community.