unclefester420
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stealin blindswhat would be the best hands to steal with....and the worst hands u would steal with
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PoolDemon
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Re: stealin blinds | unclefester420 wrote: | what would be the best hands to steal with
either the one they both fold to you, or holding a real hand if they call...
....and the worst hands u would steal with
obvioulsy when you bluff & they call or push...
realistically, if it gets folded around to you on the button, you have 2 players to beat, therfore, anything that is better than average is worth raising with, min 3-4 times the BB, but pay attention to stack sizes, low stacks might push back with next to nothing & suck out on your chips...
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DangerMouse
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This is a pretty big topic. As Pool has said it`s not so much about the hands you`re holding it`s more to do with position and chip stacks.
In the last 3 betting positions, button, cutofff and hijack you can attempt to steal with a big range of hands. How big that range is is up to you and the circumstances you`re in.
To illustrate what I mean I`ll give a couple of examples.
1) You`re on the button, you have 30 big blinds and both the blinds have about 20xbb. You`re dealt J5o. It folds round to you.
You could try a steal here but really you don`t need to. You have plenty of chips and your hand is not very good. Why risk getting called and losing chips with a terrible hand?
2) Again you`re on the button ad have J5o. You only have 8xbb and the blinds both have around 11-12bb. This is a better time to consider pushing to pick up the blinds. Neither of the blinds can really afford to lose the pot and they`re much less likely to call with marginal hands.
Generally speaking you`re looking at stealing from late position with small pp, suited connectors and suited gappers, weak aces and any two face cards.
A lot of it comes down to how confident you are at playing the flop if you get called. I know a player who will raise from LP with all the hands I`ve already mentioned plus he`ll throw in K-8+, Q-8+ .
I will point out though that he plays a lot of short-handed poker and he`s a very good player who has had several books published. Most of us don`t want to be taking those kinds of risks and keep our range a little narrower.
One other thing I`ll say is that you shouldn`t worry too much about stealing blinds early in a tournament. The risk far outweighs the reward. Once you`re hitting the 3rd or 4th level though you need to start looking for opportunites.
It`s when antes kick in that this tactic becomes particularly important and ideally you want to be picking up the blinds about 1.25/1.5 times per orbit.
Oh and the worst hand I`ll steal blinds with is 7-2o. Mainly for my own self amusement though. If my opponent folds I can show and type in "Hammertime!" 
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wooo
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i was resding thos topic
while playing a sng at intertops
when it was folded around to me on the button
i had Q9 off
my table only seems to play when they have hands
so i rasied and the last 2 folded
i almost let that one go
so thank you
now to win the game
any advice lol
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PoolDemon
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depends on the size/type of the SnG wooo, make a new thread for SnG stratagy with all the details of it...
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Kondai
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I think it depend on many thing.
- Is this guy really easy to steal, or he just defend his blind by called everytimes someone raise in middle or late position
- How about your chips and his chip.
- How about your card.
- How about your image now (Are you many steal attemp in recent pot).
It all effect your success and your win rate if he called the flop.
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ALLINTUIT
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AA but you have to remember if you are on an aggressive table it is going to be hard to steal blinds no mater what hand you have
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MrBadBeat
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This is an aspect of the game where I know I've got plenty of room to improve so I appreciate the advice above. Good stuff.
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DangerMouse
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I`m glad it`s been useful to at least a couple of people. It makes the time I spent writing the reply was well spent. (not that it took hours, but you know what I mean)
The thing with stealing blinds fron LP is that we all know it`s expected and we all know people are doing it to us but at times we find it hard to pull the trigger ourselves. Yet when we do find the nerve and it works it feels great. It`s as Doyle says - making the right decision at the right time is the important part of poker.
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