Steal blind

How to blindly steal effectively?

You want to be stealing the blinds from late position like the button or cutoff. A small raise of 2.25 - 2.5 x the big blind will be sufficient to make the blindsfold when they have bad hands. If they call and defend their blind you can follow up with a 1/3 - 1/2 pot size continuation bet to take the pot down as they will miss the flop 2 out of 3 times and you are getting a good price on your cbet.

Also you would want to have a good read on your opponents, are they extremely loose maybe you should consider not to steal blinds.

AntonEast said:

Also you would want to have a good read on your opponents, are they extremely loose maybe you should consider not to steal blinds.

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Agree with this 100%. Once you realize there is a defender present, be careful. I love to defend matter not the bet size. If I feel I can outplay you post flop. Game On!

^^
Yep, play the player. No hard fast rules, here.

ksidrew said:

You want to be stealing the blinds from late position like the button or cutoff. A small raise of 2.25 - 2.5 x the big blind will be sufficient to make the blindsfold when they have bad hands.

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-Its Okay! But dont raise with any too.

ksidrew said:

If they call and defend their blind you can follow up with a 1/3 - 1/2 pot size continuation bet to take the pot down as they will miss the flop 2 out of 3 times and you are getting a good price on your cbet.

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-But this .... XDD nice advice to lose all your money.

1. bet 1/3 of bank gives a good chance of bank to call with 2 overcards (6+outs). This size may be doing on the value or some bluffs with eqity.

2. 1/2 of bank - its a 30% chance to opp (8+outs)

You must choose a bet size thinking about the hand of opponent and seeng your hand.

PKPurple said:

How to blindly steal effectively?

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it would only work in late position. x2.5 with a half pot cbet on the flop. If you do it too frequently, they'll smell you out

I usually try and steal with hands that play good post flop suited and unsuited connectors.
Got to be sneaky about it like a thief. If you are playing load of pots the chances it will work will decrease.
Late position is the easiest position to execute from but you can steal from everywhere.
It is easier if you play a few orbits and get a feel for how persons are playing first. You don't want to try and steal blind from a calling station or you want to make sure there is no super aggressive player on your left.
Also helps if you have chips to play with in case you get a call you can rep something on the flop and win with a Cbet.

Well , I steal blinds easily when I am big stack with a lot of cards with a big raise or all in to make them fold the weak chip stacks hehe (my favourite in late stages ) . Ok , seriously , min raise 2.2 or 2.5 from button or co when you want , to nits all the time , to TAGs , but when they call , mini cbet only dry flops or if you have sth good . C bet when you have a decent card that has some post flop value so if sb calls you might have sth to play with . Don't cbet for the cbet , cbet dependingly on the cards you have , the flop texture , the opponent . On later stages it's much easier to steal BB SB blind from CO BU or BB from SB the bigger stack you have . Take into consideration your image and foe's image on the table when you steal or he steals .

To seems most important to know your opponents. Sometimes you just cant steal.
stealing blind should be calculated and targeted.

you always need to watch who sits in the big blind, guy how is short could push all in, a guy who is big says, what ever i pay, you need someone between

Steal when you read on your opponents, steal when u can go go go )))

Check out on our opponents. If they are playing tight and trying to survive the bubble, you may raise on good position. You don't need to steal blinds on early levels. Only when the risk of your raise is worth the possible blinds/antes.
Don't try to steal from early position, because the chance to hit some monster after you is pretty big. Also try to have some sort of connectors or suited cards, because they are giving you more chances to follow up and to connect something on the flop. Continuation bet on the flop is also worth the risk if the other guys in the game are not calling stations. In most cases you may read from their reaction after the flop bet if they hit something or not.

I like the advice here. makes alot of sense. Im a defender all the time..which is just dumb

You just need pay attention on stacks, u can steal from SB, Buton, Cutoff, even Hijack, if the cutoff, and buton are tighers. Better steal when they have a medium stack, but becarefull whit re-steals, they can do it bluffing, or whit really value, tribeting, or going all in, so u need to fold if u dont have a good hand.

In case u have a short stack on u lefts, like 6 - 10 big blinds, looking for shove every good equity hands, like every Ace high, or Kings suiteds, QT+, broadways, etc, if they fold, u steal the blinds, and if they pay, u almost always in front to win.

U can observe too who is stealing u blinds, if u have a agressive player, on every final poistions making raises to steal, try to make a re-steal some times. Agressive players is better u shove all in, otherwise u can took a 4bet from they, if is a tight player, u can do a 3bet light and he fold. Look to do it whit any Ace on hands, or broadways, so u will have a blocker card ( if u dont know what is blockers card search it on forum, its nice to learn too).

Finally, if u make a steal and he pays, u need look the texture board, and c-bets dry boards, whit any high cards for u represent, u can C-bet too semi bluffing, if u have some draw, or any pair, some boards u can do 2 bets, o flop and turn, if appear some high cards on turn, or something that helps u.

Hope help,
gl on tables

you should always try to steal the blinds from late position,cutoff, button or sb. ( there are some exception like a big stack stealing blinds from early position near the bubble)
it depends on many things. if you have a short stack then you might try to shove all in with a decent hand and hope that no one calls you with a better hand. also villain poker style and his stack is important. if you try to steal blinds near the bubble make sure villain is a tight player who wouldnt call unless he has a monster hand, also i dont recommend stealing blinds against loose players or big and shortstack players unless its a bubble scenario in which you can try to steal blinds from shorstack players if they are not very loose players.

I use one at reception sb. If all fall down, I do call. BB often make a check, but even if you do raise, I call.On the flop unless a miracle happened and you do not have anything on the board cards came out to play your average check raise. In 90% of cases BB put a drop on our raise.

ksidrew said:

You want to be stealing the blinds from late position like the button or cutoff. A small raise of 2.25 - 2.5 x the big blind will be sufficient to make the blindsfold when they have bad hands. If they call and defend their blind you can follow up with a 1/3 - 1/2 pot size continuation bet to take the pot down as they will miss the flop 2 out of 3 times and you are getting a good price on your cbet.

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Right, but if you are playing a tournament it is also important to try to steal only in mid/late-game when the blind levels are high, there is no point in stealing low value blinds where the dead money does not pay you off, on long term basis it would not be worth, cheers.

It is necessary to know what percentage of your opponent fold to 3bet. (For me it is the most important indicator in this respect)

the maths is: folds required to break even = what we risk/ (what we risk + pot size).

so for a steal to 4bb when its folded to u on the button, u wud need 4bb/ (4bb+1.5bb) = 0.727 or, 72.7% folds combined between sb and bb. so they can both play 13% of hands each and u still show immediate profit assuming u break even every time postflop.

even hands like 23o have equity when called however, and plus the fact you are in position, means u can steal pretty widely vs a lot of tighter opponents.

fwiw, i dont like 4x steals, i prefer 3x steals since u need less folds and it keeps the pot small. obviously u dont want to build big pots when u have trashy hands, so for your overall range its better to, imo, raise to 3x.