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Basically, say you're dealt something like Q10 in late position. This might not be a hand you'd play with a lot of callers, but in a short-handed game it's got a lot of potential. Well if it's folded around to you, do you change your perspective and consider yourself at a short-handed table now that your potential callers are far fewer, meaning that you can play with less of a hand?

I'm just wondering if this is a safe mindset to adopt as the betting progresses, or if it has some pitfalls that I'm missing.

Thanks

Answer: Yes, the way you view your starting hand selection from late position when no one has called to is similar to how you view short handed poker table hand selection. When you are the first person in especially, you want to force the blinds to put in more money if they want to play. When you raise then you can immediately win the pot and steal the blinds or you can still win later by either betting and getting the opponents to fold when they miss the pot or by actually making a hand.

There are pitfalls to this because blinds get good hands too so to avoid giving up too much money on hands that you are contested in, don't get stubborn. If you are just called by the blinds then your course of action is to bet the flop regardless of what it is and then see what they do. If they raise and you have nothing then you can easily fold.

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