What range of hands to defend BB with against a UTG raise?

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Basically poker is a game of stealing blinds, so on a fundamental level he is raising to steal the blinds [/nit]

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This isn't always true even in relatively tough games. Yes, if we were trying to play in an unexploitable game-theoretic fashion then our raises should always take into account the blind money, but add in some players who play too loose and your EP raises start to approach the same values you'd raise with if there was no ante at all, given that you know how badly your opponents are playing and are consciously trying to exploit it.

Put another way, against 9 other people playing perfectly you should fold KK UTG if there is no ante. On the other hand if they're coldcalling UTG raises with T9s, then you should still raise KK whether there are antes/blinds or not.