[mrbaseball]

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1. At what point in an MTT do you start to steal?

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Depends on a lot of things. Stacks and oppononents mainly. Steals won't work in round one or two but become very selectively available in round 3 and neccessary by round 5.

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2. Position. How important is position?

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Position is key. Depending on the nature of the table you can make some early position plays but this is risky and you should have good reads. The double edged sword of position is often the blinds will put you on a steal when you are button or cutoff and go for a resteal so you need to learn how the blinds will react when you are in srteal position.


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3. Hand selection

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Any 2'll do! For me the cards mean very little if the situation (ie stacks, position, opponents tendancies etc) offer up the opportunity for a successful steal.

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4. Opponents stack sizes and aggression?

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You can't steal from a short stack. They will push often if they are even close to pot committed. Mega stacks will often call anything as well. This is player dependant but it's best to attack medium and average sized stacks.

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5.What do you do if re-raised? Instant fold or call based on pot odds?

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If the odds are good I'll call. If I strongly suspect a resteal I may come all the way over the top. Very player and stack dependant though.

When stealing you often have to fire a second bullet on the flop. You raise and get a caller and the flop doesn't hit your garbage hand. You fire at that pot like you have pocket AA! Although like everything else this is player and card dependant. If I steal raise with crap and the flop comes A high I will almost always "represent" that ace. If the flop comes momotone or highly coordinated I usually back off but not always. Like everything else it depends.

Play a practice stealing tourney. Those $22 180 sngs would be good for this. Try to steal every unopened pot from the button, cutoff and cutoff -1. You will be amazed and learn a lot as well for the exersize.

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I hope that the above questions lead to a lively discusssion

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So do I but around these parts it's doubtful.