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Small blind completion ranges

I must be the only NL player in the world that doesn't know anything about this subject. I've
never read anything about small blind completion ranges in NL ring games, and thus I usually
complete my small blind with any two cards, no matter what the circumstances are. I've been
playing 50NL through 200NL online and up to 1000NL live for over two years now, and I
still don't know much about this subject. I'm sure there are mathematical odds that could
dictate almost every situation here, but I'm also fairly certain that one's standards should
change depending on how fishy/loose/tight the limper(s) are. Can anybody point me in the
right direction here?

I think its really board dependent but I suspect most people complete way too much. I believe
people have used pokertracker and determined that winrates are the lowest in the blinds.
Personally, If a table is very limpy and passive, I'll play any suited ace, suited connectors
(sometimes 1 gappers) and obviously and small pocket pair. If the table is particularly bad and
passive postflop, I will call lighter.
To me, the question isn't so much the cost of completing and potodds... the positional
disadvantage is too great. Playing your blinds is much more important in limit.

I complete alot of hands, and steal pots very, very frequently.


Here is a pretty general completion range given 1-2 limpers.
A2-A5, Axs, A9+
K5s+ K8o+
Q8s+ Q9o+
J8-JTs
57-79s (all of those one gappers)
56o+
Sometimes low pairs I just complete, sometimes I raise.
Im never completing stuff like q2, K3, 74, 95, etc.

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