Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
You always want to keep in mind
You always want to keep in mind that if you build history with any of your opponents or you are squeezing a lot, that your small blind can and should look to trap occasionally with his stronger hands, knowing you will squeeze wide. This shouldn't prevent you from squeezing, but it should reduce some of your range so that your opponent isn't looking to exploit you.
Defending from the Big Blind vs Cut-off's
Defending from the Big Blind vs Cut-off's There's a significant drop in most opponents’ open raising range from the cut-off than the button. For that reason, you need to tighten up your 3-betting and flatting range against most opponents. Most opponents will open raise from the cut-off about 24-33% of the time. Both 6-max and full ring tend to have similar averages, with full ring actually having slightly higher cut-off opening ranges to about 34.5%. It's reasonable to assume that because it's usually opened more often before it gets folded to the cut-off at full ring, that people seize the opportunity slightly more often. In either case, opening ranges in both games are very similar.