Calling in BB range

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However, it is clearly the BB where people make the most mistakes, as their getting a discount on seeing the flop and often closing the action pre flop.

A decent range for calling in the BB vs LP raises is KT/KJ/KQ, QT/QJ, JT, AJ/AT, T9s, maybe a few decent suited A’s.

Vs an EP raise my range is reduced drastically, to stuff like AQ, AJs, KQ, QJs, depending on who’s raising and our stack depth. Sometimes I’d go a little looser than that, sometimes a little tighter.

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This is from Bond's excellent post on position in SSMTT. I had a point I wanted to discuss and thought it might be more appropriate here.

"Good players" online tend to raise 2.5xBB. With 1xBB in ante late on FT or Stars, I am getting 3-1 pot odds to call a raise in the BB. So I will often atleast call with any pp, and most suited connectors/gappers and broadway cards, as well as some other hands.

I agree the SB is more reraise or fold, but I am getting 2-1 pot odds in the SB, so it seems OK to flat call sometimes, particularly if the stack sizes are such that I can checkraise allin on the flop if I want to.

I would call loser with unsuited high cards against a late position raiser than an early position raiser, but with a speculative hand, it doesn't matter so much how strong a hand the raiser has. If the moneyis shallow, then I might call tight against an early position raise from a solid player.

Now I know the raiser has position and initiative, but he generally plays predictably cbetting, which I can checkraise. If the money is fairly shallow, you have a checkraise allin, which reduces your positional disadvantage.

I also think there some advantage to defending your blind, and you don't always have to do it by reraising.