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Originally Posted by PJfan10
Shoot.... I forgot to mention on my previous message. MadMojoMonkey, BTN vs Blinds. You mean Button VS Blinds. I' m I correct
I've learned limping on the button with A suited or A paint is not worth it. You have to raise because the SB or BB will have random hands. You can hit your A and bet into the hand and the blinds can beat you with 2 pair. With the raise I can remove some of the junk hands and put the blinds better qualify cards like connected cards, suited cards, small pair or paint. Thats my 2 cents at least.
BTN = Button, yes.
BTV v Blinds is a term which means that at the start of the hand, it was folded to the BTN. The BTN does not fold.
The BTN knows that he has position for the rest of the hand, and that he has a pretty good chance of getting both the SB and BB to fold right now. BTN responds by opening a much wider range of hands than usual (maybe as much as double the %-age of hands he would play if it was folded to him in the CO). The blinds know (by popular perception) that the BTN should be doing this, according to game theory analysis. The blinds also have dead money in the pot already, which gives them better pot odds against the BTN raise.
So the blinds respond by playing a much wider range as well, and 3-betting much wider. The BTN now has dead money in the pot, and faces a 3-bet that represents a wide range.
See how this dynamic starts out simple with the BTN opening a very wide range, based on position. Then it snowballs into playing big 3-bet and 4-bet+ pots with medium-strong hands if the blinds respond correctly?
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OMG, yeah, never limp when it's folded to you on the BTN. NEVER.
On Bovada, I usually open raise 4x + 1 BB for each limper. Except when it's folded to me on the BTN, I standard open 3x.
My reduced open size is exactly because the blinds are expected to 3-bet wide, and I can call more hands IP if their 3-bet is a bit smaller.
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