loafes
Legend
Silver Level
It really irritates me when you are getting to the later stages of a MTT and its at the point where you need to start making plays to steal blinds only you have a big problem... The fish keep stealing all your fold equity. These brain dead zombies limp into lots of pots for big portions of their stack or they feel they can call with any two cards simply because they have some chips left. I mean you get some players who are happy to limp in for 20-25% of their stack and sometimes even limp fold but usually they wont, you need a read to work out which they are.
Normally I have no problem with this, I mean bad layers are good for the bankroll however in this stage of an MTT I find that if you have a bad table position I miss out on lots of chances to make steals because these oblivious fish are stealing all my fold equity. This puts me in a position where instead of being able to find good spots I need to find good cards, I feel like this lowers my skill edge and makes it harder to do well in tournaments. I like it when I am actually able to win some chips without a hand.
I was wondering on how other people deal with it when fish steal all your fold equity, should I be stealing lighter and play bigger pots with more risk or should I be taking chances earlier to build a stack so that missing out on blind stealing situations is going to be less inconvenient to my stack or do I just need to accept that in these situations there are times I will just need to hope to pick up some hands in good spots in order to chip up?
Normally I have no problem with this, I mean bad layers are good for the bankroll however in this stage of an MTT I find that if you have a bad table position I miss out on lots of chances to make steals because these oblivious fish are stealing all my fold equity. This puts me in a position where instead of being able to find good spots I need to find good cards, I feel like this lowers my skill edge and makes it harder to do well in tournaments. I like it when I am actually able to win some chips without a hand.
I was wondering on how other people deal with it when fish steal all your fold equity, should I be stealing lighter and play bigger pots with more risk or should I be taking chances earlier to build a stack so that missing out on blind stealing situations is going to be less inconvenient to my stack or do I just need to accept that in these situations there are times I will just need to hope to pick up some hands in good spots in order to chip up?