Re-stealing on the BB

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Putting information together the strategy of e.g. the button open-raise vs. the BB defense seems to be:

Don't steal vs. people who defend their blinds too often or re-steal often.

On the BB vs. a true stealer (the button or the SB from most parts) one should re-raise at least one time in three or four (especially with mere slick hands). One needs not call on the BB much (the big stacks may just call).

If the SB limps (open-calls) the BB should consider raising 3-4 times the big blind at least two times out of three. In that case the SB's defense is to limp one time in five with a hand he can play back with, and up to fold the rest.

Re-stealing is the way to go when stealing faces re-steals. In that case (and in cases where the remaining players call too often) the stealer should limp instead, and open-raise with a hand that can often enough play vs. a re-raise.

There's good money on the pot when the stealer is there, but there's not much anything when he isn't (the ante games are an exception).

Some simple math:

- one 50c big blind. A 150c (total amount) steal. It's 200c in the pot. The re-raiser makes it 450c, putting there 400c more.

- the re-stealer breaks even (doesn't lose anything by re-raising) if the stealer folds two times out of three and the re-stealer mucks his hand every time when the stealer calls that re-raise.

- the stealer gets odds of 300/900 (1/3) to call that re-steal preflop and has implied odds of whatever the BB bets on the flop. The BB bets 600 on the flop (if he doesn't the stealer might do better if he gets aggressive after that check).

- when the stealer calls that re-steal/re-raise it costs him 300c more and that comes to daddy two times out of three, that's 600c. The daddy loses 600c on the flop when the stealer hits a hand (the BB never wins then, that's a possible way to round many opposite factors). It makes no difference if the stealer calls that re-raise preflop or not.