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WPT GTO Trainer Hands of the Week: Defending the Big Blind as the Chip Leader

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Today you’ll be playing as the chip leader at a tournament final table. You have called from the Big Blind against an open raise from the medium stack on the Button. Note that there are 2 short stacks at this final table with 10BBs and 12BBs. The presence of these shorter stacks factored in with the pay jumps, creates pressure on the medium stacks at the table. Villain’s hand range to open raise on the Button in this scenario is significantly narrower than a normal Button opening range due to this pressure. If the player on the Button is not adjusting to this fact and opening too wide, you should be relentlessly reraising their opens in this spot.