Deep stack games - making them play YOUR game

[Fly]

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let's face it, stealing the blinds is important (if and only if you play limit), and you're all of a sudden spending double the money to steal the same blinds..

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[sh58]

no need to raise double the normal amount, just don't give people implied odds by not paying them off when they hit.

a worse player trying to stack you for 200BB by calling your raises with any 2 cos if implied is gonna get into alot of trouble as you can outplay him postflop

[pineapple888]

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let's face it, stealing the blinds is important (if and only if you play limit), and you're all of a sudden spending double the money to steal the same blinds..

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Dude, it's important in NL as well.

It's just that you are trying to balance several goals, and a pot-sized raise is a good practical way to do that in many/most situations.

[Fly]

plz explain

[Danibusman]

this has been said essentially, but... u dont want to turn it into 100bb poker by opening double pot etc. b.c then you arent able to utilize ur huge postflop edge v. bad players w. a ton of monies behind.

on the other hand, if you know a particular fish is gonna call any size 3bet pf b.c he cant fold onces he has put money in until he sees what comes, it is cool that u make it really expensive.

[pineapple888]

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plz explain

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Um, I think I did, if you look at my posts above. If you are wondering why blind stealing is important, I can't really give a convincing explanation without going into a bunch of pokertracker stats and such that I don't really feel like doing now.

[Unknown Soldier]

blinds = money?

[Keyser.]

I don't know if these need to be updated for today's games or if they apply less in deep stack games... but here are the seminal blind stealing 2p2 posts:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...Number=5348855
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...Number=6073737

[Shizzle12345]

blind stealing is even more effective in deep games cos its harder to resteal because of implied odds.

[carrotsnake]

this sounds like an awful idea online where people have a clue what your doing. And fly, seriously, wtf, poker REVOLVES around the blinds.

Also, wtf, danibusman = same name on FT ? if so, you challenged me to a HU at .75/1.5, ever wanna do that [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]