Defending my BB

[giddyup]

So i've been wondering what range of hands to defend my BB with in 5/10 6 max on Party. I read in Limit Hold'em for Advanced Players that it should be about 40% of your hands, namely Ax, any 2 cards T or higher, and any suited connectors or 1-gap suited connectors down to 5. I feel like this may even be too many. I mean, i dont feel too great about defending my BB with A2o against 2 opponents. What range of hands do you guys usually defend with against unknowns?

[Grisgra]

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So i've been wondering what range of hands to defend my BB with in 5/10 6 max on Party. I read in Limit Hold'em for Advanced Players that it should be about 40% of your hands, namely Ax, any 2 cards T or higher, and any suited connectors or 1-gap suited connectors down to 5. I feel like this may even be too many. I mean, i dont feel too great about defending my BB with A2o against 2 opponents. What range of hands do you guys usually defend with against unknowns?

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The guide in that book was for very shorthanded play (2-3 handed I think was implied).

What I defend with depends on where the open-raise occurred from (UTG? Button? SB?) and what I think of the player (Does he steal all the time? Is his PFR<5%?)

[Robk]

careful- those standards are for defending heads up against a raise from a sb that has position against you. in the party game you will have position as the BB when you are heads up with the SB (so you should defend many more hands, in fact almost all of them.) headsup against someone with position on you it depends on how aggressive they are and how early they raised. when its not headsup the situation changes again, and you can fold some of the bad offsuit hands (although id often play the A2.) go back to hpfap and read the live blinds section in the beginning, thats a good place to start.