What Are Your Views On Defending Your Blinds?

[Dazzler69 0]

When I'm playing in tournements or in S'n'Gs I tend to start trying to defend my big blind, especially if the blinds are high relative to stack size and/or the player in late position has been raising a lot when they are in position. I dont tend to do it as much or at all in cash games as I dont think the the blinds are worth defending that much in comparison to the chip stacks.Your thoughts and advice is much appreciated!

[mtdesmoines 3]

When I'm playing in tournements or in S'n'Gs I tend to start trying to defend my big blind, especially if the blinds are high relative to stack size and/or the player in late position has been raising a lot when they are in position. I dont tend to do it as much or at all in cash games as I dont think the the blinds are worth defending that much in comparison to the chip stacks.Your thoughts and advice is much appreciated!

Yes. And. Yes.

[GabeTheKid 0]

you seem to know what you're talking about. I fold my BB like 85% of the time in cash games and SB like 90% of the time. It's -ev protecting your BB when it is so insignificant in comparison to the stacks. In tournies/sngs it's a different story. Although, at high M situations (near the beginning of a tourny) it's not that important to defend either.imo, defending the blinds is over-rated and puts you in tough spots. Obviously if somebody is picking on you and it's obvious, defend, but don't try to come up with an excuse to defend everytime someone from CO or button raises your blinds.

[tskillz187 0]

I play mostly live and the competition isn't that tough plus I can look at them. For me defending my blind depends on how much I respect the player and how deep we both are. If we are both pretty deep and I don't respect his postflop play much, I'll defend with any two, surprisingly this situation comes up a lot.

[Lavitz 0]

Defending blinds is huge in SNG/tournies.Not so much in cash games although you will see people 3 bet marginal hands against button raises all the time.