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kingfisher33 · Pair Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 41

Ok, I'm relatively new, have won a couple live tourneys on newbie guts I suppose...Mainly I 've done a fair amount of reading, but can't say that I really own all the stuff I realize I'm supposed to know.

So, when doing blinds stealing and blinds defense; other than recognizing that "it's that time/position".... do these strategies really differ all that much from playing mid-level to low level junk, and not just limping with it?
Any shorthand advice? Thanks...playing again tonight and trying to tackle one concept at a time....

s2005s · Two Pair Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 60

well, in tourneys, i usually raise with anything on the button if im in the sb or bb and i sense weakness i raise.(dependng on the amount off ppl in the pot) really doesnt matter what you have even if its 27.

shorthanded is all about agression. u should be raising with all sorts of hands, and especially agresive on the button.

of course u must take into consideration the blind levels and u and ur opposition stack

just try playing like a maniac and ull be fine

kingfisher33 · Pair Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 41

ah! Thanks; I believe I can do maniac just fine...I'll give it a go.

FatStacks06 · Royal Flush Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 736

What I do is just say to myself, no matter what I get dealt this hand I'm going to put in a 4XBB raise and try and steal. If you are stealing your cards don't really matter, you will occasionally get called, but if youa re playing tight and showing down good hands, you should be able to steal every other round without much opposition. Defending your blind is overrated. Just steal the next time around if you lose it. Hands you can raise with and hands you can call a raise with are very different.

wunderkind1 · Pair Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 30

Raising from the blinds is a bad idea unless you're confident everyone will fold or, at worst, you can force it heads up.

Otherwise you're asking for trouble.

PokerNome · Guest

Blind Stealing is as artful of a technique as bluff and slowplaying hands. Your cards should not come into play when you want to steal the blinds. When thinking about stealing the blinds (and forcing limpers out of the pot), you have to think about what the blinds have do in the past in responce to blind steals. If they are loose/agressive players, then you should probably reconsider stealing. On the other hand, if the players in the blinds are tight/conservative players, you and pretty much take the blinds at will (at least untell they catch on).

In the same category of blind stealing is taking a pot in which many people have limped in. In a "family pot" where 4+ people have limped in, you can usually take the pot with a significant raise. Most players in the pot will have small pairs, bad aces, and suited connects, all of which are flopping hands and have no strong value before the flop. Even if you look down at 7-2 off, a strong 7-10x BB raise will usually take the pot. The thing to look out for are short and big stacks. A shortstack could feal pot commit, or be ready to gamle with "two live cards", and a bigstack could call such a raise thinking that it is such a small persentage of his chipstack. As a general rule, a pot-stealing raise should be around/above 10% of your oposition's stacks, but not within the range of 50% of a shortstack in the hand, because if re-raised, you may feal pot commited and call as an undog hoping to catch.

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