[TwistedEcho]

The short answer, It depends.

For me, i generally begin stealing when antes kick in on pstars, and about 100-200/150-300 on party. Obv stacksize also depends, but there is less point raising A6o from the CO when blinds are 15-30 because A) they are more likely to call you, and B) you barely win anything when you do get the to fold.

Position does matter to an extent, as the earlier you raise, the more likely someone will have a hand thats worth reraising/calling. When you raise A3 on the button, its not just to steal the blinds, but also because A3 is often better than 2 random hands. I tend to make my looser steals from 1/2 off the button, as people give you more respect, and generally i am tigher on the button if the blinds are thinking players, mainly because people assume button raises = steal so often now, and i hate being played back at.

Hand selection depends on the table and my image. If its bubble time and the table is tight, and i have a good image i'll raise lots more things from LP than i would if the blinds were aggressive or my image was horrible. I prefer the blinds to have 10-20bb, a nice medium stack.

A tight bigstack is often good to steal vs too, as sometimes they see their bigstack as something to protect, and dont want to risk losing chunks of it, so will continually fold their blinds to your steals, as will medium stacks who are waiting for hands, and don't want to bust out.

If im reraised, it all depends. The other day in party 40k, i had 28k and blinds were 400-800. It was folded to me on the CO, and i raised JTo to 2000, my standard raise at this point. The sb make it 4200 total, and he had 15k behind. I called, and pushed the QKx flop. Obviously there is no shame in folding, as people expect you to steal, but if you are both fairly deep, i often will call with most holdings (altho if im raising Arag, i generally let it go).

I'm probably on the tigher end of stealing, and often will pass hands i probably shouldn't, but im working on it. Hope thats helpful