The first cajone that I needed to grow was the "all-in with any two" cajone. When the chips are down and the position is right, it's the only option. It took a while to do it without wincing, but now it doesn't bother me.
However, the blind defense cajone is proving to be a bit more troublesome to grow. I've been using
an old post by PVS as a guideline:
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If you are in the BB, you cannot allow people to min raise you. If they min-raise, you must re-raise if at all possible. Once they get the message, they will have to bet at least 3xBB.
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and
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- Don't allow people to min-raise your BB. Reraise with any A, K, QJ, QT, JT, pair, or suited connector.
- Try to reraise rather than call. Calling doesnt really discourage blind stealers.
- If you are short stack, just try to get ahead of the other short stacks and stay there. You don't need to double or triple up.
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Now, I don't have any trouble shoving my stack in against a min-raise with AQ, or even ATs, but something like KTo is a different story. I just can't make myself put my whole tournament on a blind defense, since the blinds are often so big that you're only option is to re-raise all-in.
Am I taking this stuff too literally? For example, here's a hand from tonight. SB was a solid player and fairly aggressive, but not crazy-aggressive. Would anyone defend here?
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t300 (5 handed)
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UTG (t700)
MP (t1645)
Button (t870)
SB (t2295)
Hero (t2490)
Preflop: Hero is BB with T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
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3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises to t600</font>, Hero ???
What if SB had button's stack? Or MP's stack?