These are hands we call because they play well multiple ways. Generally I find in 1/3 the BB does not squeeze (re-raise into multiple people) enough to punish calling our speculative hands like suited connectors/gappers and medium-low pocket pairs.
With 2 behind it is much harder to bluff to take down the pot. In addition, assuming you don’t get 4 bet, you have the betting lead and get a good chance to take down the pot with a continuation bet. In addition, if you call, Bb can follow with a much wider range including stuff that would normally give up its equity like any suited or offsuit connectors/gappers.īy 3B/Folding, you give every hand you play a good chance to not have to play out of position postflop, and you also make the BB’s price to play a hand much more expensive and it’s much more likely that the post flop hands you play will have only a single person acting behind instead of two. If you do call, you’ll have to be the first to act and everyone else will act behind you, which is a huge disadvantage. The most common position you will typically use this strategy is probably SB facing single RFI.īecause there’s no other callers it makes less sense trying to take a speculative hand like a low pair or a suited connector multiway.
