Protecting my blinds, Pokerstars sng

[Manque]

Would you share some of your thoughts regarding situations when you would defend your blinds vs. giving them up. I rarely defend my blinds except in very obvious situations and would like to start fixing this leak.

[el_dusto]

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Would you share some of your thoughts regarding situations when you would defend your blinds vs. giving them up. I rarely defend my blinds except in very obvious situations and would like to start fixing this leak.

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I, too, defend my blinds when it is obvious to do so, and do not when it isn't.

So what exactly do you mean by "obvious?" Your example wasn't particularly obvious to me.

(fwiw, I hardly ever "defend my blinds." Unless I'm very confident in my reads (eight rounds of steals from the SB or button) or I'm severely short stacked, I'm not worried about letting a few chips go.)

wow, one parenthetical expression inside another. i need to drink less coffee.

[Manque]

I would say an obvious example would be having pocket aces in the big blind. Or if the small blind was constantly mini raising.

[bawcerelli]

the preflop minreraise was rather goofy IMO. fold or push all in preflop. i'm folding FWIW

[rbear]

First, "obvious" is so subjective, meh.

I'll "defend" my blinds when I have pot odds (never surrender to donk min raises unless it will sufficiently hurt), or occasionally if raiser has aggro image I'll play hands with good implied odds (suited connectors).