Alright the much requested post of Stealing

Blind steals, pot steals, and Stone cold bluffs, re-raising the stealer. *Note the stuff in this thread can and will at time cost you your chips*

All very instrumental plays, especially late in a poker tournament. Will start with the basics, blind stealing. Blind stealing is talked about like it’s a religion among poker players. There comes a point in a tournament where a good 70% of the hands are taken down on the blinds, via steals and people tightening up to make it down the stretch. So when do you blind steal? The answer is simply, when you have the opportunity. That doesn't mean every time a hand is folded to you, but generally you want to try and maintain a blind steal every orbit if possible (simply because this will keep your stack steady). Blind stealing will never improve your position too much in a tourney (yes when the blinds are 20k 40k with a 2k ante the blinds can be profitable ). With that.

Pot Steals. Stone Cold Bluffs, and re-raises. This is where the money is, but requires a good read for the player and what hand they are holding. A for Instance: I'm holding J10o I decide I am going to play some poker. Pot raised to 12k from 3k blinds. I call. Flop comes 2 6 9. The guys bets another 12k I raise to 24 (representing my overpair/toppair depending on his read), he hesitates and calls. Turn is a Q. He checks, I raise all in. Why did I raise all in here? I was playing poker. The guy raises PF, then bets after the flop, but doesn't put a re-raise onto my raise (and I only had about 12k chips left, him about 24k) instantly at that point I put him chasing a hand or on a PP, Turn missed him (at this point if he had a hand he would bet into me). I put it all in, and take down a solid 70k ish pot.

A Re-raise is a powerful tool, Use it! Have you noticed a guy stealing blinds often? Put him to the test, and re-raise him. DON'T min re-raise him, that’s asking for trouble, raise like you mean it!

A good thing to remember about all of this is that these are just tools, and as any tool it has its situation use. Identifying these situations comes with experience, a solid read, and luck. Sometimes you will make a mistake and run into a lucky flopped hand (How I got eliminated from the big 350k on Sunday). Also plays like these will not work as well against bad players, which is why it’s generally recommended to wait till later stages in a tourney before you start playing with these tools.