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Hypermegachi's 6-Max Texas Hold'em Limit Guide - Flop Play in the Blinds
Playing the blinds well is one of the most difficult skills to master. This is one of the more profound differences between longhanded and shorthanded play. The blinds come around twice as fast, and people will take shots at your blinds. You cannot let them bully you around. In other positions you are usually fine because you are playing premium hands anyway. Even if everyone just calls, you have 96o in the blinds, and the flop comes 249, it's hard to know where you are.
In that situation, you can bet out to test the waters. But if someone has A9, they may call it, or raise it. If they raise it you can muck, knowing you're in deep shit. If they call it, you're in deep shit too, because there are a lot of passive players who will call like this. You'll likely end up paying them off if they don't raise.
Going for the check raise is alright too, but most of the time you'll just scare the button into thinking they're in deep shit, and they'll just call down the turn and river bets, and flip over T9.
Playing blinds is difficult because there is no way you can "buy" the button. If you bought it that means everyone folded . Thus, the blinds are really only profitable when you have monsters.
You are expected to lose money in the blinds, you just need to minimize it as much as possible. Be aggressive with marginal holdings. I like to stick with my mantra..."if they don't raise, I have the better hand."
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