Got involved in a hand with a shark -- advice?

[TheFoxNL]

agreed with bond here
dude has a wider range he needs to protect his BB and he might just do so with TJs AJs ATs

check behind

[registrar]

Yeah, I probably check behind.

[Jolle]

Could anyone explain why the BB would defend his blind as wide as Bond is suggesting? The raise came from MP1, representing a reasonable good hand.

[registrar]

He's certainly going to defend his blind with two broadway cards. Or, at least, I am. I don't know how villain plays.

[Jolle]

But how can playing hands like KJ or JTs OOP de profitable against a raiser representing a solid hand? I mostly fold KJ here against a non-lag raiser. Is that a leak in my game?

[registrar]

What do you defend your blind with?

[Dazza1984]

[ QUOTE ]
Yeah, I probably check behind.

[/ QUOTE ]

[Jolle]

I hope this is not getting in the way of the hand too much. Just watch around me.

Registrar: I figure a typical raising range from MP1 is something like AJ+, KQ, 77+. So I defend with hands that do OK against that range (and a little more, because my BB and a SB are alredy in the pot). This boils down to AQ/AK and 99+.

[registrar]

You should be raising your big aces rather than calling off so many chips to play a flop OOP and hope you hit your cards. The bigger pairs you can play differently and you can call some here. So villain can have a big pair. However, you're going to be pretty easy to play if you fold almost everything, raise big aces and call with big pairs. Also, you won't pick up these hands often enough to stop your blinds being raped so I think it's good to call with other hands that play well against an MP1 raising range, while not necessarily being ahead of it - which is to say, hands that can hit flops harder than villain may where we can stack villain and hands where we can outflop villain, which is to say high, suited and connecting cards. There's space to play here and while hero has definable range, we have any two playable cards.

I'm pretty loose out of the blinds. It doesn't apprear to be a leak from PT, but maybe it's not optimal. However, I think your playing range here is way too tight and leaves you relying to much on getting big hands when your opponent gets slightly smaller hands.

[Jolle]

First, I do reraise with AK/AQ, I tought 'defend' could mean a raise as well as a call.

I think I'm seeing where my reasoning went wrong. I shouldn't be thinking: "My hand is behind his range; I fold.". But more like: "I lose here the majority of the time, but if I hit, I win more than the times I lose combined, so it's still profitable." (Pretty much the meaning of implied odds). Is this correct?

Also, I don't think my blinds will get raped as you say. I don't expect many steals from MP1. Perhaps those happen less in the (low) levels that I play on. Off course, if I frequently see someone opening from MP, I also defend more (but in that case the range I assigned to MP1 was wrong as well).