Defending Blinds in Poker Tournaments

"Playing from the small and big blind in tournaments can be difficult. On one hand you want to protect the the pot on the other hand you feel vulnerable being out of position, with perhaps a weaker hand than you normally would consider playing.
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I have always advocated playing a bit more hands from the big blind when you have a shorter stack and your opponent is aggressive. In short what you can do to win many chips over time is to protect your blinds by either calling or re-raising all in, as long as you have a chip stack of less than 25 big blinds.
These are two strategies. The first to simply call should be used only from the big blind as you know you are the last to act and you can call at a huge discount to any other player in the game. So from the small blind you should generally be much more selective with calling, unless there are more than one player before the flop, that is one raiser and a few callers.
POKERSERI
Calling from the big can be done with many semi-bad hands if you think that the person raising is aggressive and would raise many junk hands just to steal your blinds. Therefore when you call with a weaker hand you still expect to have about the same quality as your opponent. The simple strategy then is to check most hands that you hit to the aggressive player and then reraise all inn with most hands that hit your hand reasonably well. You will do this more frequently with a shorter chip stack and be more selective with bigger stacks.
Lets take an example: You have J9o and an aggressive stealer opens with a small raise from the cut off. You call from the big blind with a stack of 18 times. The flop come 9Q8 giving you a one pair plus an inside straight draw. This is a good enough hand to go with against an aggressive player. Therefore you check knowing he will bet any flop. The initial pot is 6 blinds and your opponent bets 4 blinds into the pot.
CASINOHOKI
You then go ultra aggressive and re raise his bet all in with your remaining 16.5 big blinds, we assume you had to call with 1.5 big blind before the flop. Now he has to call 13.5 big blinds to win the pot which is a huge risk. You will not see you opponent do this without a pair of Queens or better.
If you get unlucky your opponent will have a Queen or better in his hand, but you can still with either of the cards 9,T or a J on either the turn or river, which is 11 outs. Most of the time you will see your opponent fold like a weak baby and you increase your stack with 50%, from 18 to 27 blinds."

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