When The Big Blind Is Too Tight

[David Sklansky]

Someone posted that Chris Bell said I was playing way too tight in the Borgata 10K tournament where I took third. He supposedly went on to say that because of that he was doing a lot more blind stealing when I was in the Big Blind and he was in the cutoff.

Forgetting about the fact that he didn't see my folded hands and his sample size was too small to be sure I was prepared to fold as many hands as he thought I would, the question arises as to his supposed counter strategy. To wit:

If all have a deepish stack, you are in the cutoff seat, the big blind calls your raises once in four, and you thus raise first in with x per cent of your hands, how does x change if a new player, at least as tough as the previous one postflop, takes over in the big blind calling your preflop raises one in six?