Defending Blinds

I presonally dont like the thing about defending my blind with allmost any 2 cards, i think if your not an experienced player its easy for the SB(example) to let you think hes trying to blindsteal, but really he may have a monster, thats what i mostly hate about defending blinds, i often end up losing a good part of my stack when i make mistakes thinking someone just try to blindsteal, so the recent weeks i really try to work on cutting down my "blind defending". Ofc. unless i have a hand that i believe in, AND i have a usable read on the opponent thats raising against my blind.

My advice for you, stop defending your blinds that much, instead you shall try to focus on stealing blinds from your opponents, I think its harder to read the one who raises me, then it is for the raiser to try to bluff me. Thats why the pros are agressive players, its lot harder to read them, like they say about Ivey and Gus, they play aces allmost like they play 89os.. So again, my advice lol, focus on your raise, and dont think that you just MUST defend EVERY single blindsteal, you probably know what to do when you got the right hand dont try to defend your blinds if you do not have a read on the "blindstealer" - you never know exactly what hand he is playing.

By the way, I'm talking about tournament play, and not cashgame. In cashgame im willing to call alot hands if someone trying to raise me when I'm BB, any suited connectors, bottom pairs, allmost anything, the only thing I care about is how much im getting raised and what reads i got on the player raising me.

Maybe its not a help, but there you got my view on "defending blinds".

Originally Posted by Sabr1988

My advice for you, stop defending your blinds that much

This was intended for cash games, and I already play really tight from the blinds. I'm just trying to get an idea of non-premium hands that i can defend with and still make profit against "unkowns" or "standard Taggs". Thanks for all of the links to other threads, they helped a lot.

Originally Posted by Imthenewfish

This was intended for cash games, and I already play really tight from the blinds. I'm just trying to get an idea of non-premium hands that i can defend with and still make profit against "unkowns" or "standard Taggs". Thanks for all of the links to other threads, they helped a lot.

Ohh i see. Well if i was forced to play some hands while defending my blinds i would call any pocket pairs(mostly hoping for a set) otherwise i would play allmost any suited connectors and hope for the best to flop..

Cant really tell you what hands you should play, i think you know it better yourself when you are playing, its you who have the read of your opponents. But try to figure if opponents either have a good hand and try to make you think they are blindstealing, or that they are just trying to steal with any 2 cards, its up to you to decide if you want to defend or not, the other player dont know what hand you have, you can play them back as if u had a monster, but keep in mind that its dangerous, waste of chips mostly i would say.