Sure, we’re going to get a reasonable price from the BB most of the time, but we must think about ranges and equity realization. This should be reflected in our calling range from the BB. This causes opponents to open a tighter range from early position but a looser range from late position. This is because it’s less likely that they’ll play the hand out of position (OOP), and it’ll also be less likely that their hand will be beaten. If you were not aware, players will open at a higher frequency as they approach the button.
To counter this, we should have a solid BB defending range, understand your hands’ playability and understand what a solid BB defending range should look like. Or you could be under-defending your BB, simply bleeding chips at the table and giving your opponents an easy opportunity to steal your chips when they open wide from the CO or BTN. For example, you could be calling pre-flop too frequently, causing you to miss the flop more frequently, resulting in folding to your opponent’s bets. One of the easiest places to lose a ton of value in poker is with poor big blind (BB) defense.