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Message: [QUOTE="Aballinamion, post: 5435494, member: 289533"] [b]To John A[/b] Hey John A, thanks for this amazing book about Cash Games! I am reading the chapters with eagerness, and I will read it more than once, for sure. Very well done! Now, I am struggling to learn a proper and decent strategy to optimize the blinds defense (SB and BB defense), at the Micro Stakes. I wrote a text and sent to Evan Jarvis (Gripsed), but he is a very busy player like you John A, and I completely understand it, so he didn't have the time to reply. It's a very long and boring text, so if you don't want to read no problem. But just in case: [URL]https://www.cardschat.com/forum/cash-games-11/ask-gripsed-anything-about-cash-games-432683/[/URL] (it is one of the lastest posts). And again, I initiate a thread in the Cash Games Forum, but also not a lot of replies: it seems that everybody already is a pro in blinds defense, so there's no need to talk about it: [URL]https://www.cardschat.com/forum/cash-games-11/trying-optimize-blind-defense-446033/[/URL] So, I am reading the book and I try to apply systematically the things the author explains: "2. [I]Making more definitive decisions against steal attempts, and reducing cold calling range. This basically means 3-betting or folding more instead of flatting. Ideally flatting can be much more profitable[/I] [I][B]Optimal Big Blind Play[/B][/I] [I]When you have a reasonable amount of confidence in your post flop game, look to take more flops. This is always within reason, but look for marginal regulars you think you have an advantage on, and look to outplay them post flop."[/I] [B]Polished Poker Vol 1. rev 2. Pag: 88[/B] This is incredible true for the micro stakes. Because of the High Rake, and the variance, we are calling from the SB almost never and from the BB not very frequently either. Most of times the 3bet, specially from the SB is much better than flatting with a capped obvious range. From the BB, I guess, we can call a little bit more, but even so the 3bet and the Squeeze tends to be more profitable when the Rake is high. (am I right?). Look for maginal regulars it is also one thing I only do at the micros (2 NLHE and 5 NLHE): try to overplay them when possible: If a Weak Reg, a Whale, a Fish completes from the SB, I am stealing a lot from the BB because I have position over this x player, initiative, and I might overplay it several times preflop and postflop. The players in the SB who use to complete, when it comes in gap, fold a lot to steal attemps of the BB and when they call, their range cannot sustain two streets of value/pressure. [B]Defending the Blinds vs EP[/B] The book gives a real piece of advice when it comes to face TAGs from the BB. One thing I never looked upon, it is the C-Bet Flop from the TAG EP Raisor. If they C-Bet the flop less, we in the BB can wide our range and call with more strong suited or single gapped connectors, because of the low rate of C-Bet Flop, we in the BB can see the Turn most of times and complete our equity for free. The same goes if the TAG raisor from the EP, C-Bets many flops to leave a lot of Turns. (tends to play passively on the Turn). We can call from the BB with a similar range mentioned above. However, if the TAG in the EP is too aggressive postflop, we should avoid calling down too much, unless a weak player also enters the pot, so we can reevaluate our decisions: "[I]a. If they are tight: How often are they continuation betting? Some tight players have a really small or large continuation bet percentage. Very few are somewhere in between. If they continuation bet a smaller percentage of the time, then looking to take a flop with some strong suited or single gapped connectors can allow you to see four cards often enough to hit a big hand or make a move. If they continuation bet a lot, but are passive on the turn, you can call with a similar range and some broadway suited hands like QJs for example, and look to either lead the flop in spots where you completely miss and take their play away from them, or check/call and lead a lot of turns on flops that have potential. This would be "floating out of position" and isn't very profitable unless you're very confident in your post flop play and reads. If your opponent is tight and a high continuation bettor and aggressive on later streets, then folding most of your hands is ideal unless there is another really weak player in the pot. Then you can widen your range slightly, but not much."[/I] [B]Polished Poker Vol 1, Rev 2, Pag 88-89[/B] Any ideias, critics, comments will be very much appreciated. Thanks for your great work! Regards; Carlos 'Aballinamion' Barbosa [/QUOTE]

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