Hidden Harrington Thought!
December 5, 2007
Finished up HOH2 again (must be the 3rd time by now). While going through I found an interesting couple of lines. Just a small footnote to one of the many ‘problems’ which feature throughout the book.
Funnily enough - it got me thinking!
Here it is, the problem centered on having a reasonably big stack approaching the paying places and a medium-strength hand in late position. The idea was to try and steal the blinds… skip the details… the footnote said this:
“Remember this, You have to steal in a way that allows your opponents a face-saving out, even if they sort-of know what you are doing…” (bolding mine)
As a big stack you’ll be stealing a lot of blinds right, the idea then is to not ‘force’ those smaller stacked opponents to play back at you by ‘embarrasing’ them by stealing in exactly the same way from the same position each time.
This struck a chord, especially with the ‘egos’ you’ll meet online who don’t like to be pushed around. Something as simple as varying the raise size, making a delayed continuation bet instead of a standard one - or even folding once in a while could prevent those tricky ’should 1 call a resteal’ problems that spring up from time to time.
Will certainly think this one through and try and adpt my game a little.
GL at the tables, Mark
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