Stealing the blinds in poker tournaments
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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 Time: 10:28 PM
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Strategy poker tournaments – Confirmed
Theft of blinds in poker tournaments is must to reach the final table. Phil Gordon, author of poker books and double-champion of the World Poker Tour adopts the following strategy. This strategy is very important in all casinos as well as poker sites to win the game.
He tries to steal the blinds on average 1.3 times per turn. This ensures the survival of his stack while allowing it to grow to anticipate the next stage of the tournament. However, the training period in a tournament may vary. Thus, in tournaments you steal the blinds more often.
This strategy is particularly appropriate when your opponents are playing tight.
When you play against players larger, you'll sometimes face difficulty to steal the blinds because too many opponents will see the flop and you reraise.
Cons of this style tables, it should adopt a slightly different strategy. These reraise preflop loose players who tend to over fly the blinds. Thus, if your flight is running, instead of winning a small blind + big blind one, you win more the amount of recovery opponent (usually 3 big blinds). The advantage of this technique is that you can just use it less often than the classic blind stealing (as you win 3 times).
Phil Gordon, use this technique once every 1.5 laps just to live his stake. The drawback of this robbery of armored special is that you often need to move a significant portion of your chips (3 to 4 times the amount of recovery opponent). The ideal situation is to have a large rug (forty big blinds) on pain to build your entire stake.
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