BB vs Button raise. What'd I need?

[ginozola]

Just been playing a hand. I don't have the exact hand history available yet, but I know how the play went. Can anybody tell me if I'm thinking this through correctly? I'm playing a $1 SNG, we're at level 4, it's already four handed. Two big stacks, one medium stack, one small stack. I'm one of the big stacks in the BB, the other big stack is in SB.

Down to four players, the hands been going around pretty quickly. Button (the medium stack) had raised when folded around the two previous opportunities, both times 3xBB. Both times he'd picked up the blinds.

Third time this happens, I hold K7o and fold. In this spot my thinking is 'If I don't have a hand, I'm not going to play back at him'. Small blinds rel. to stacks, plus the fact he might just have good hands. But what would I need to re-raise in this spot? What'd I hold to call and see a flop OOP?

Judging from earlier hands, he looks to be raising wide. My aim is to re-raise rather than just call and see a flop. To re-raise, I'm looking for 77+, AJs+, JTs+, KQo? He's raised 3xBB. I re-raise to 8xBB?

So when I've had my BB raised like this and I'm raising with the cards above, are there cards I call with? If I hold 22-66, 76s+, JTo+, I call and take a flop and look to hit a big hand. Anything marginal hits (or nothing hits and I have a weak PP) and I'm OOP and acting blind without the advantage of being the PF raiser. Ugly spot.

Some thoughts on this would be good, even if I'm way off. Thanks.

[taipan168]

You need to post the exact hand so we can see stack sizes in order to give you proper advice.

That said, against a player like this who was regularly raising his button, I would almost always just shove over if I was going to play rather than flat call since you'll be OOP postflop. Plus because it's the bubble, unless opp is a complete idiot he'll need a very good hand to call your shove.

[gingerwizard]

If the blinds genuinely are small relative to stacks, ignore it. My range for playing back is like TT+,AQo+.

I don't need to get into post flop poker OOP with marginal hands on the bubble, and I don't need to shove because I have lots of BBs (20+ for this advice to hold).

Worry about blind stealing when the blinds are a good % of your stack.