What does it take to call a minraise from the BB?

Im just curious, what is your hand range when in the big blind in a shorthanded game and some donk raises the minimum preflop? say you just posted a big blind of $1 and someone makes it $2 from MP and theres one or two callers before you.

any 2 if stacks are deep enough.

would that go for the SB too? with alot of limpers before you and you dont think the BB will re-raise

Originally Posted by bantam222

would that go for the SB too? with alot of limpers before you and you dont think the BB will re-raise

Not exactly, I am very tight out of the blinds due to being out of position. I'll limp suited connectors, suited aces, sometimes hands like 78o and other decent hands, but total garbage I fold. Compare this to call a raise from the BB against the SB who we have position over, a lot of times a call with any decent hand is a profitable play here.

If they're minraising preflop then they're probably bad, and so your implied odds alone probably justify a call with everything outside of complete rags.

I play any connector, any suited and the rest of the regular hands.

I still keep away from big-little hands and total trash.

Closing the action with 6 or 8 to 1 is nice vs a poor player.

shouldnt we be raising ?