Short-stacked against constant raiser

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Can a good poker player tell me what strategy I need to play against a bully poker player in a tourney when they begin to always raise pre-flop in order to steal the blinds against a tight short-stacked player with poor starting hands?
 
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If you are tight and shortstacked then open up your range and shove with alot more hands
 
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^ agreed. The only real way to beat a bully is to bully right back. Maniacs on the other hand- you just need to be patient and let them hang themselves when you hit a good hand.
 
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You could try to counter steal with 3bet shove with hands like 44+A9+.
 
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try to push him a bit with your short stack, re-raising him
 
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If you are shortstack you need to loosen and shove with a bigger range of hands
 
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Just wait for a pair, an ace, or any decent hand and shove. Dont wait premium hands. With every successfully defending of your blinds, the chances are smaller that he will try to steal again. Just dont get frustrated so you call him with trash hands.
 
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so u can dubble up...a constant raiser allways will pay a short stack ..so u must wait a good hand and dubble up
 
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you can pull up the nash chart and shove
 
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He is actually providing you with a good opportunity. Being able to re shove over an initial raise from someone who is raising light is more profitable than just open shoving yourself, trying to pick up blinds and antes. It also appears as a stronger move to the other players who should be less likely to call you with hands like QJ, 10 9 suited etc than they would if u shove a short stack without another player opening the pot. Just hope yr hand holds up.
 
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if you are shortstacked, i must have been the bully...im jk . but i like it when short stack shoves against my raises. because they play too tight, and they want the bully to believe that they have a good hand when they shove, but if hes stacked and he covers you, your gonna get called whether you got aces or not. Usually short stack tends to play the same way after they double up.. take notice on players next time your playing the table. Think what it does mentally when your the big stack or if your short stack. Question how do you react to the action you place or put against. because short stack and big stack gives off 2 different mentality for players. its very important to be aware on knowing when you can push back or when you believe big stack is lying. Because if they are consistently doing it to you, they know that you know that they can do it, there fore doing it won't harm em as much, and since they know they got the advantage theyll usually price it in good with a small pair when you shove on the flop after calling their re raise preflop . usually middle pair flops are good, you gotta open up more, and you can't trap yourself by raising out with a shove all in after getting re raised,. you wanna slow it down and just shove when they raise you. They don't want you to win a pot that has about 4-5 bbs, so usually it will always get raised, just make sure to call it or fight back . If your near the bubble, you have to avoid this situation ahead of time and shoving when you got 15bbs to take blinds is suggested along with staying patient and picking out the right opponent to do it on.
 
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I would in your place waiting for premium hands and immediately pushed his chips all
 
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I usually play the situation like this:
Shove on him pretty wide. I'll shove any A, any pair and also connectors, 1-2 gappers, esp if suited.

You can only do this a few times before everyone picks up on what your doing and you get called light. Best case senario is when you shove light a couple times and then pick up a premium hand and get called. And you will get called.

Vary it up by flatting and then open shoving the flop if you're out of position and you feel good about your read on the bully. Remember to make this work you have to have enough chips left after your pre flop call to have some fold equity. IN fact, note that this whole strategy assumes you have any fold equity for the open shove. If you have no chips to make the bully fold go with the wait for a premium hand and shove. It doesn't even have to be that premium because you range is so much further ahead of his. KQ, QJ is probably good.
 
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Everybodylovesdeuces' response was superb, and exactly what I try to do in the given situation.
 
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Yeah, go for the re-steal provided that you have fold equity.

I find that a stack size of between 14-22 bbs is the best size for re-stealing.

The beauty of the re-steal is that all you have to do is have an idea of his opening range, and his calling range. If you suspect his opening range is wide and his calling range is narrow then re-stealing with a 14-22bb stack is a +EV play regardless of whether or not he called this time.
 
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Jam really wide on him. Get in earlier rather than later as later you get it in with usually similar equity but with far less chips. Also making a stand earlier has the added benefit of letting the bully know he cant fk with you as much.
 
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