Lesson overview
Blind Versus Blind
Build a complete strategy when the table folds
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Only the big blind remains. Is raising your only serious option?
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The table folds to your small blind. Compare completing and raising after pricing the ante, your new risk, and the big blind’s postflop position.
What you’ll learn
- Distinguish small-blind completion from passive open limping elsewhere
- Build responses to isolation raises and protected checking ranges
- Adjust the model for antes, rake, effective stacks, and payout pressure
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Position survives the folds
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At a multi-player table, the small blind acts first postflop, even when everyone else folds. The big blind can realize equity in position. This differs from a heads-up match, where the button is the small blind and acts last postflop. Completing for 0.5bb is cheap; the full continuation tree may not be.
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Give each action a continuation
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A limp range needs responses to isolation raises: folds, calls and some strong reraises where appropriate. A big-blind checking range also needs hands that can continue postflop. Splitting every premium into raises and every weak hand into limps lets an observant opponent attack the split. Choose your plan around isolation size, stack depth and observed behavior.
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