Exploiting holes, Meta game theory

You identify a player (player 1)who does not defend his blind correctly. You proceed to raise his blind and take it down.

The whole table is weak, except for one player he is quite good, and seated a few seats to your right.

Question: Should you always steal player 1's blinds?

Bill

I think you need to be careful about how you do it. You want him to remain passive and keep him on the back foot. If you keep on doing it eventually he'll play back at you. If you do it with nothing and he pushes back at you and you fold he will see that aggression works, prompting him to play more aggressively. I think doing it on and off is good, frustrating him. Then when you get a big hand and raise he might re-raise out of frustration and you can trap him nicely.

The other player at the table will notice his weakness too and he may raise before you to take the stealing opportunity away from you. The two of you will most likely rule the table.

Ok so your only opponent at the table would also have spotted this 'weakness' from player one. If he acts before you i would have to say not to attempt the steal, even though the likelyhood is that he is at the same. He is most likely out of position, and using this as implied strength.

I would attempt a steal every time your good player is not in the hand. Ok eventually he may play back at you, but in the long run this wont matter because you will have so many of his blinds you are basically freerolling.