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lost2qandisa

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So, you are sitting at a table near the bubble. You have a mid to high stack. You keep getting hands like 3 7 unsuited. Yet there is a short stack that is pushing and raising all the time. You know that they are trying to steal blinds. Everyone at the table just sits and folds over and over. You know somebody had to get a hand. They just will not play them because the bubble is so close. Does this frustrate you? It does me. Especially, when the chip leader who has double or triple the next closest person will not make a play to pop the bubble.

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DrazaFFT

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That shouldn't bother you at all, eventually someone will have a hand an will counter, or someone will lost the concentration an shove with speculative hand to re steal or something, getting frustrated because things like that will only force you to made a mistake and get yourself bubbled or small stacked, just be patient wait for a good hand or a good position to re steal with little wider range, but of course doing so, dont get to crazy or shove to re steal like some beginners do because the guy who constantly raise might have a hand sometimes and if you shove you don't have a chance to get away from a hand so steal with 2 or 3 times of his steal or even less if blinds are big and effective stacks are relatively small in compare to the blinds
 
MTCashman

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It is frustrating when everyone is terrified to bubble, the guys who aim for the top spot instead of a min cash will be the ones laughing to the bank
 
MediaBLITZ

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They are doing what they should do and need to do to get back in it - you are doing what you need to do to continue on - Why frustrated? It's a normal stage of tournaments. You need to be encouraged that you have enough chips to manage your risk better than they are backed into a corner to have to do.
 
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Suppose the chip leader does what you are hoping and calls the short stack's shoves or re-raises - and the short stack has a hand or sucks out. Now the short stack has doubled up and his strategy is paying off. If the pot ends up multi-way he may more than double up. It seems like you should prefer that this strategy only earns the short stack a few blinds until someone has a hand that will knock him out. Instead of frustration, I would be encouraged that nobody is willing to allow an easy resurrection.
 
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