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Originally Posted by PB97
That's not really the case at all though, is it. You don't lose 0.5BB from the small blind and 0BB from the non blind positions, you lose 1.5BB every orbit. The only relevance that can exist in the SB position, is that you're getting a better price.
Not sure how to explain but that logic is wrong.
If we played and folded 1.000.000 times from the BTN, we would lose 0.
If we played and folded 1.000.000 times from the SB, we would lose 500.000bb
So on the BTN we only play hands that will make us win more than 0 / hand in the long run.
We can't just open or even limp 90% of hands on the BTN, that would cause all sorts of problems for us.
On the SB we can play all hands that will lose us less than 0.5bb / hand, which is a lot lot more hands than 0+ / hand.
We can easily limp 30-45% of hands and open 30-45% from the SB, since we only have to make more than -0.5bb / hand or -50bb/100
So let's say we limp 76o from the SB and we end up losing 40bb/100 with it, that's actually better than folding it, since that would lose us 50bb/100
On the other hand, if we open 76o from the BTN, we might only lose 5bb/100, but that's way worse than 0, so we shouldn't open it (or limp it, we'd probably lose even more if we limped)
It's a pretty well known standard concept that you can find on any training site if you don't believe me.
There are a lot of other reasons why limping from other positions is mostly bad, but again I don't want to get into that here, since that's a different topic.
You can find why limping is bad all over this forum if you do some searching.
Last edited by Yeodan; 07-26-2021 at 11:29 AM.