Playing from the small blind in Limit

[PShabi]

In the loose, full-ring games you're playing in, I like Lee's guidelines. If you're in the SB and 4 people call you're getting 11 to 1 assuming a (1/2 blind structure). You should be playing damn near any two in that situation.

From other stuff I've seen, you need a tune up post flop. Good news is, you're posting a lot of hands.

I'm gonna be your best friend and refer you to some links here. Read and answer the questions and honestly before reading the responses. Then, go get the book that contains them. It was the single most important factor in helping me become a winner.:

[FatRufus]

i think lee's point are good. I think its easier to be calling the big blind in limit because you don't have the threat of a monster raise coming, so if you have ok cards and have a nice stack you can call and hope for no raise. And he can only raise twice the big blind pre-flop so i normally like to try and see a flop. There are your obvious fold but at low-limit i think you can be more aggresive with what cards you choose to play.

[2Tone]

In a 2/4 game with 1/ 2 blinds, I’m completing with almost any two cards if there’s no raise in front of me. Even with only one caller, it’s still worth it. You just have to be willing to let go of it if the flop doesn’t look friendly.

3/6 with 1/3 blinds is different story. I’m folding all trash hands, and depending on the nature of the table makeup and number of limpers, playing only “reasonable hands,” much like the list you presented, perhaps even a little tighter.

For 4/8, I’ve seen different kinds of blind structure. If it’s $2/$4, see first paragraph. If it’s 1/2, like a lot of the Vegas card rooms, I’ll freely admit I haven’t figured out the right strategy.

[PShabi]

Having a "nice stack" has absolutely no role in any decision made playing limit hold 'em.

[FatRufus]

so if your play $1/2 and u have $10 are you going to play the same as $100?

[PShabi]

If you don't have enough money in front of you to "raise,reraise, and cap" the next hand, on every street, then you should be buying in for more chips.

[lavvman]

depending on which hot chick is sittin next to me and what shes doing

[FatRufus]

yah your right pshabi but i still think the money you have changes the mind set a little dont you agree?

[MathBabe]

I knew that! Yay!