Blind stealing is not exclusive to late position play. You can steal blinds from any position, and you should!
“Blind stealing is not exclusive to late position play. You can steal blinds from any position, and you should!”
— Daniel Negreanu · Blind
The World Motivation
Blind stealing is not exclusive to late position play. You can steal blinds from any position, and you should!
“Blind stealing is not exclusive to late position play. You can steal blinds from any position, and you should!”
— Daniel Negreanu · Blind
Blind stealing is not exclusive to late position play. You can steal blinds from any position, and you should!
As a general rule, the more precious the chips you'd consider betting, the more you should lean toward playing it safe. Check it down; cautious play is usually the recipe for long-term success in poker.
Deep-stack games like High Stakes Poker are the favorites among both poker pros and avid fans of televised poker. In these games, the most talented players shine and the most exciting action takes place.
Check-raising with a drawing hand on the turn is simply a kamikaze gamble. It might work once in a while, but if you consistently attempt it, too often you'll find yourself watching the rest of the tournament from behind the rail.
What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
A successful entrepreneur is one who recognizes her blind spots. You may be the world's best engineer, but you probably have never run a 10-person sales force. You may be a brilliant marketer, but how do you structure a cap table?
Internet players have successfully addressed the all-in play from a mathematical perspective. For example, it's fairly common to see a net player move all-in over the top from the big blind with a hand like K-Q when they have less than twenty big blinds remaining. And for good reason - it works!
You can't just put a bubble over the Westside of L.A. and pretend like there aren't other problems. The way that we are failing the kids in this city through our education system has a profound effect on everybody in the city, and I'm not prepared just to turn a blind eye to that.