Just need to do W2, D 18 to finish the 3rd week.
Week Day 3, Day 19 Small Blind
You act first in every street while in the SB so will out of position every time so you should be careful playing this position.
EBook Tidbits:
"If we face a prior raise, we should play similarly to other positions by tightening up our range relative to
hands we would have opened" because you're out of position". Ok.
"Facing Limp(s) in the small blind, complete the small blind with a very wide range". Gotta be careful with this and they give examples of baby straight and flush cards like 43s because you're getting good
odds to call so that's ok but you can't play trash hands and you need discipline to get away from hands with bad kickers and need to know when its worthwhile to chase a draw that Collin went over in a previous lesson.
"If everyone folds to you in the small blind, complete most hands you play" No, this is where too many play too many hands they shouldn't play and get into trouble and can't get away from top pair with trash kicker and all sorts of trouble their experience cannot cover and waste too many chips by calling with trash.
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Video Tidbits:
The 95 commentating makes zero sense to this old school player and is dead money to me. The small blind is probably the spot where most players have the worst ROI from any position and defending with the hand range they are suggesting is sign that you're not willing to let go of hands. The blinds are part of the community, its not the individual's money although a lot folks think that way. When you think of it as your money then you are setting yourself up for disaster.
This defending a blind with a trash hand like 95 will get 90% of players in trouble and you'll play too many hands that they shouldn't play and you'll be out of position. This stuff DRIVES ME CRAZY. LIMPING with the SB is CRAZY. This might work in the higher levels where you see a flop, bet it and the BB will fold but most folks won't be playing that caliber player and trying to hit 2 pair with a trash hand against a calling station is giving away money that will kill your ROI.
Another reason why Math can be used to justify silly nonsense. Calling with 95 or some trash hand because you're get 3-5 callers is giving money away. And even if you hit the 9 somebody playing A9, 98 will take you out. And do you really want to play a big pot with 95, anyway? This "new" poker makes zero sense to me.
I thought they were kidding then I see them highlighting 10 4 and anything lol the new holdem, lol.
The pair of ducks or small pairs example makes zero sense. At best you're coin flipping with 2 overs or your dominated when you don't need to with how much you have relative to the blinds in your stack and when you look that you're all in and get knocked out amd your response is "I had a pair of 2s or some silly low pair" is crazy. Think about it, take any 5 random cards and lay them out in a row and how many times does a pair of 2s or 3s the best hand? lol Its that simple to think about but people want to nuke this into something else and justify things that make zero sense besides playing an aggressive style that again, will get a lot of folks playing too many hands that don't have experience or discipline to get away from and put them on track to becoming a losing player fast.
The best part of the lesson goes back to a previous lesson where you need a plan to cover what you're going to do before you enter the pot and you have a response already prepared with a reason behind it however your opponent responds.
64o in the SB is an easy FOLD. And putting close to 10% of their stack on that hand is silly. Please no more, lol.LOL.
