errum.... THis may have been posted a while back, I vaguely remeber something along these lines. If not, we'll crank out another chapter of steve-o's book for him (like we've been doin )

Play out of the BB. Need help.

PT after 962 hands has me at -.59 BB/hand out of the BB. I only have 2 other positions in the red, and they are less than -.1 bb/hand, so I'm chalking that up to the limited DB size. -.59 is a MAJOR leak that needs plugged. Perhaps it is due to the fact that out of 117 BB hands, only 4 have a W$SD >0%, and a WTSD of around 24 hands. This tells me 2 things. That 1) maybe the smaple size is stil no tbig enough and I have had bad luck, or more likely 2) I'm taking these crap hands too far into a hand because I got a cheap/free look at the flop.

I am earning like .25 bb/hand per all other positions, on average. I am a little (like 20 bets) over break even. This is telling me my play in the BB is A MAJOR LEAK that needs plaugged.

Limit HE, btw.

is -.59 BB, big bets or big blinds?

I think its big bets but before i reply I don't want to assume it is.

Typically the mistake people make with their blinds is calling when they should fold and folding when they should call.

Most people (not saying you do this Marm) will defend their blind with AXs/KT type hands, good heads up hands, but will fold 22/89/T7s type hands, bad heads up hands.

when your opponent wants to steal your blind(or raise with a marginal hand) he pays a hard price, 2 bets to win 1.5, and he lays you 3.5 to 1.

Against a lone raiser from middle or late position it is correct to defend your blind with a large variety of hands purely based on odds.

Another common mistake is always calling and never 3 betting in these spots. you have a big advantage when you 3 bet and your oponent simply calls, you have in essence raised from EP and gotten a call from a late position player, you have taken control of the betting. you can now be the aggressor on ragged flops that miss you both with less fear of re-raise bluffs and such.

if you could supply a few hands that you played from the BB that you are unsure of we could dissect them and see if their is a way to do things. or list your playlist of hands you defend with and such.differently.

Well my VPIP form the BB is 15.x% ('m at the inlaws again, so I dont have PT in front of me), At first I thought that was pretty good, then I realized that i s very high. I think my saw flop % would be a better indicator when mixed with the other stats, but I' dont know them right now.

BUt thinking about it, -.59bb/hand is a huge whole, thats -5.9bb/100, if i can cut that loss rate in half, my win rate will jump to about 5bb/100, still not great, but a good number.

now Beavis in another thread you said defending with 67s or 78s is suicide.

So you defend with Ax over suited connectors?

I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.