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What If It Is Three-Handed ?

We want to pause for a moment and point out that the situation is somewhat different if the pot is three-handed.

Suppose in three way poker game the player on the button raises.

It’s true that better not get away with it more than 50 percent of the time, but if you are in the bigs blind you don’t have the entire responsibility of making sure that he gets called the proper amount.

The little blind should also do his share of calling (or reraising).

However, you need to realize that the little blind should be aware that the big blind may also call.

Consequently he should only play his better hands.

Thus the little blind should play about half as often as the big blind, and their combined playing frequency should be only a little more than it was for the big blind when the game was heads-up.

In other words the big blind should play approximately 70 percent as often as before, and the little blind should play approximately 40 percent as often as the big blind played in the previous case flop betting