The British Poker Series runs the kind of live poker that grows the game: accessible buy-ins, deep fields and busy rooms. BPS holds the record for the biggest poker tournament field London has seen, with 1,114 entries at a £200+£35 buy-in.
QuintAce is working with BPS alongside GTO LAB, one of the leading names in MTT analysis, who solved every range on this page.
Stop always calling in the big blind
Most players are far too passive in the big blind. They are reluctant to play bigger pots out of position, so they call and hand the initiative to whoever opened. Adding 3-bet bluffs wins pots before the flop and makes you much harder to open against.
GTO LAB solved the big blind against UTG, the hijack and the button at 25bb, 50bb and 100bb.
Switch between the opener and stack depth, then select any hand to compare it across all three depths:
What the grids are telling you
Two patterns run through all nine of them.
The later the opener, the harder you fight back. At 100bb you barely 3-bet an under-the-gun raise at all, and you fold over half your hands to it. Against a button open at that same depth you 3-bet more than three times as often, and you fold less than a quarter.
The shorter you get, the more of that aggression becomes a jam. At 25bb against a button open, the jam is the bigger half of your raising, and you are folding only around one hand in ten.
Work through the seats, find the bluffs you have been missing, and start putting the opener in a tougher spot. These are chip EV ranges, so treat them as your baseline. You cannot adjust away from a baseline you never learned.