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No being a jerk. This is thread for beginners so there might be a lot of questions that seem stupid to more advanced players.

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Here's one of these questions: I think I play good during low levels and pretty good late on the bubble or close to it. I'm having trouble bridging the gap between these two stages though. I know when to steal and am learning when and against who to resteal, but when technically does the mid-blind phase start and end? It's obvious on Stars it's when the BB reaches T100, but I play on FT where the blinds increase more smoothly. Where does it start at FT? Still at T100? Also does the high blind phase auto-start when either my stack or the other stacks reach 10BB?

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I'd say "high blinds" start when your effective stack is less than 10BB, either because that's where your stack is already, or if everyone left to act has less than 10BB because then your effective stack is less than 10BB.

Mid-blind is, in fact, a quite tricky and read-based segment of the game.