Select Page
Poker Forum
Over 1,292,000 Posts!
Poker ForumTournament Poker

bubble blind stealing w/ big stack help

Results 1 to 6 of 6
  1. #1

    Default bubble blind stealing w/ big stack help

    I'm a SnG newb, but was playing a 45 person $6 SnG mostly for fun and got to this point with 9 left where top 8 get paid. I was stealing blinds lots so far, and everyone else was pretty tight, trying to avoid busting I think. I think my blind stealing range was too reckless, especially as people notice how often I was doing it.

    PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t2000 (7 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

    CO (t3534)
    Button (t2102)
    Hero (t25279)
    BB (t8995)
    UTG (t4801)
    MP1 (t9820)
    MP2 (t12969)

    antes are 100, so the pot starts with 3700.

    I'm just looking for some guidelines on what to do in this kind of spot since I figure it's push or fold. Can you give some advice/comments about how I played these situations:

    1 - folded to in the SB - I was pushing almost any 2
    2 - UTG - I was pushing like 66+, AJo+, KQ, occasionally even 54s+ or 89o+
    3- folded to in the CO - Pushed 22+, ATo+, KJo+, and maybe 50% of the time almost any 2 sooted or connected.
  2. #2
    Sounds like good big stack play to me. If they've all tightened up their calling ranges that much (which they should on the bubble) then you can steal with a very wide range.

    Perhaps be a little more selective when MP2 is in the BB as he's the only stack that can really hurt you (but he will also have the tightest range).
  3. #3
    And he did..I pushed 72s after folding a few times, he called with pocket jacks

    I think that was at best a marginal play and probably not worth it.

    But at least my logic seems ok about taking advantage of how tight they were playing and that most of them would not harm me much even when called.
  4. #4

    Default Re: bubble blind stealing w/ big stack help

    Quote Originally Posted by benny999
    I'm a SnG newb, but was playing a 45 person $6 SnG mostly for fun
    For fun ... Then who cares.. Push any two ..
  5. #5
    haha well I might as well learn a little while I'm at it
  6. #6
    Go single table a few.. .At that level .. You will learn a ton .. I used to love little 4-5 tables ... The payout and the amount of time sucks...

    IMO . .

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •