My BB opponent was at risk of elimination if he lost an all-in. The BU folded and I looked down at J ♥ 9 ♠ in the SB. In the first heat I played, we got down to a three handed situation where my 2161 stack covered both opponents. When We Cover the BBĮarlier today I was warming up for my Grand Tour stream (you can catch this on the PokerStars Twitch channel at 9am BST on Thursdays). You have much more to gain than he does by engaging in an all-in confrontation. blind and threaten to put all of your opponent’s chips at risk whenever possible. This only matters when there are three or four players left to act because you are racing the other opponents to pick up the bounty of a short-stacked player.įor this reason, you should shove very aggressively blind vs. In Grand Tour, you want to embrace a lot of high variance situations when you have a chip lead over your opponent because of the chance of winning his bounty. If you’ve been following this series, it will come as no surprise by now that this decision, like many others, depends massively on which player covers the other. Today, our focus is on how to play the Small Blind (SB) on a three or four-handed table after it gets folded to you, when you have a stack small enough to shove all-in.
