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Originally Posted by tmo1120
My main concern here is the RIO that come with completing a lot of garbage hands; we are always going to be in the worst position at the table and are vulnerable to getting coolered when calling with a lot of garbage hands, I feel like I could save a lot of money by narrowing by completing range in the SB, I am just not sure where the cut off point should be, I know it's a very general question so there isn't really a simple answer here
I'll break it down to the next level. In an unraised pot, I usually assume that I can only collect one bet post flop if I hit big. Say 3 people have limped and I'm confident that the BB is just checking. So the pot going to the flop is $9 and it is going to cost me $1 to play. My implied odds are 14:1 if I make a 1/2 PSB on the flop. That's enough to play smaller pocket pairs. However, my odds of hitting suited connectors on the flop is 20:1 and connectors are 25:1. I'm not getting enough to make playing them worthwhile, so I fold them.
If 6 people have limped in, now the implied odds jump to 23:1. SC become playable. If it is a 10 person table and it is a family pot, all connectors become playable.
If I have something like AJs, I'm going to raise, not call.
But yes, generally people have a huge leak in playing too much in the SB by completing.