Stealing Blinds Poker Strategy in Texas Holdem

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You know there comes a time in a poker tournament when it's to your advantage to loosen things up and start stealing the blinds and the antes. You can just start during the blind levels when no antes are out there and start stealing, but when it is of real value to you is when the antes are also involved. And most players will actually start to tighten up. It's inexplicable. Their chip stacks are starting to dwindle so they start thinking tighter. When your chip stacks dwindle, that is actually when you need to start thinking looser. Because you're trying to make the final table. You're trying to win this thing. You want that mythical, that bracelet, that everybody wants, that all powerful item that will enable you to say that I'm a world champion poker player. Well, you know what, it's time to loosen up. The antes are out there, the blinds are out there, and you need to decide whether you should raise, just raise or if you should go all in, but it's definitely time to steal some blinds. So, if I've got this stack, look at this, I've actually got thirty times the big blind, I can raise. I can say raise. I go up to four times the big blind. A lot of times I'm gonna take down the pot. What if I've just got this stack? What if no one else is involved but the blinds and this is all I've got? I've got, look at that, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine times the big blind. Well, you know what, I'm gonna hold out for a hand like that and I'm gonna say all in. So you're at a point in the tournament where antes are involved, where it's a good idea to start stealing and you need to know whether you're gonna bet part of your stack or all of it, one thing I don't want to ever hear of any of you doing is having a stack of nine chips and betting four. When you've only got five left, and there's more than that out in the pot, cause you're pot committed, there's no reason at all for you to fold this hand. You're better off giving yourself a chance at your opponent's folding by saying I'm all in.

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