You really have to see how the villian has been playing and if you have a hud you can track how often he attemps to steal the blind. At such micro levels, i don't think it is worth trying stealing the blinds because more people often limp call at that level. You can try it if you are playing 6-max though, but I prefer to just widen my range, not making calls and steal attempts with ATC. Just stick to a tight game, until you get a good feel and read for the players at the table especially the 2 players to your left and right.
As far as calling a minbet from the SB, I reviewed my database and saw that I lost a lot of money from the blinds. Mainly just because I get blinded out, but also because I played too loose on the blinds, hoping to hit some crazy hand post flop. Just like J-slice said. I realized that even if I hit a set or flush postflop OOP from the SB, it is rarely profitable. You will lose more money calling loose from the blinds than you will win back later when you hit the nuts post flop. Say you have 24s, folds to you in the SB, BB minbets, you call. Flop comes 44J rainbow, what do you do?? slow play it?? If the BB hit the J, you might make some good money, but more often than not, he will have missed and you win a small pot after all those called bets you wasted for hours from the SB.
If the pot odds are insane because there are a ton of limpers, than it doesnt hurt to see the flop, but be careful when you hit a weak pair because you are oop. best of luck to you.
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12-29-2012, 03:32 AM #12
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