PT & the blinds

Re: folding in SB & BB to steals and attempts to steal

I just wondered if there are standard stats that I should be aiming for here. If not, I'd be interested to know what others stats are.

I don't have mine to hand (I'll hook them out later) but I feel my % folds to steals is way too high and that my steal attempts might be too low

In general I think folding to steals too often isn't something to worry about. Poor blind defense is probably worse than no blind defense because you're OOP for the remainder of the hand against an (presumably, since we feel the need to defend) aggressive opponent. Without having PT stats in front of me I think both my Fold BB and Fold SB to steal stats are 85%+, at this point I'm not too worried about this.

One thing to keep in mind is that these stats don't always paint an accurate picture of your play. I nearly always sit with loose-passive opponents to my right, so there aren't that many steals attempted against my blinds. When a 50/6 player does make a "PT steal attempt" he really has a good/great hand, so I'm not going to defend with junk (unless there are implieds to call and try to stack him). If the stealer runs like 24/20, however, he's gonna be facing a 3-bet a lot of the time.

Too low Attempt to steal % is a bigger problem than too high Fold to steal % imo, as it indicates that you're not (ab-)using the button enough. Position is such a huge deal that you want to be playing a shitload of hands when you have it.

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Originally Posted by HalvSame

I'll take that as a compliment.

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Originally Posted by HalvSame

Too low Attempt to steal % is a bigger problem than too high Fold to steal % imo, as it indicates that you're not (ab-)using the button enough. Position is such a huge deal that you want to be playing a shitload of hands when you have it.

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Ok, so my attempts to steal is 26.40%. Any good?

I think that is pretty much excactly what mine is right now as well. I do think it's a bit too low, however, and I'm trying to loosen up my standards for iso-raising fishy limpers a bit. If I was shooting for a stat I'd be going for 30%-35%.

Also I think it's good to keep in mind that preflop is just a small piece of the puzzle, postflop is where money is made.

i think i makes sense to defend ur blinds when ur hand has value against his opening range. That is defined by his stats/prev actions. I agree with your ats values