Imagine if you acted last on every street of every hand. By folding the small blind more often than your opponents, you continuously adjust your Act Last Percentage in your favor. The reason it's profitable to fold the small blind is the effect on your ALP - your Act Last Percentage. As good as the button is, the small blind is equally bad. The button and the small blind are the only two always positions: you are either always first, or always last. But first I want to talk about why to do it, and how to summon the discipline to do it, and how to cash in on the consequences. I'll spell out my folding ranges, with range charts, at the end. I've been a small-blind mucker ever since. I knew it was a smart play because every day I watched smart people do it. It's harder to bluff, harder to control the size of the pot, harder to get the right price for draws, harder to protect big hands, harder to know where your opponents are in the hand − harder, harder, harder. I know of no truer truth of poker than everything's harder out of position. Second, by replacing my bone marrow with this paragraph from John Vorhaus: Have you ever folded in this situation? Have you ever considered it? The pot is $11 and it costs you $1 to call.
The big blind has a chip on his cards and he's sitting back, ready to see a flop. 'The small blind is where money goes to die.'Ī slew of players limp and now it's your turn in the small blind.
