How to play resteal with 25BB and less

In the middle and late stages of the tournament, when we have less than 25BB left in the stack, we need to start playing resteals. But the question is with what stacks for each category of hands to start doing this...

P.S. And also how the resteal strategy changes against players from different positions.

Maybe there are some articles on re-stealing with charts on the CardsChat website?

I have one resteal chart, but it seems to me that there are a lot of errors...

I don't have any charts, but to me the re steal is fairly intuitive. I'm mostly looking for passive looking aggressive actions. For example a min raise on the button. Usually just looking for the bottom end of my range in terms of cards, but if I feel its a good spot, then can be almost any 2.

I think the most important thing is to pick the right opponent.

Another opportunity is when you see someone stealing from other players regularly. Very often these players are not thinking about you, they are homed in on their target. So a shove/3 bet can work well.

Sometimes I will have a 3 strikes rule, if someone is stealing my BB a lot. Let them have it, let them have, next time shove. Not very scientific, and can back fire!! haha

Having said all the above, I find a spot usually presents itself with decent cards, if you can keep the patience! So I try to ne more thoughtful in terms of when I put all or a large percentage of my stack at risk now.

By the way I'm enjoying your recent posts. They're interesting and get you thinking about different subtle aspects of the game!

If you don't play well with a 20-25bb stack, you will soon only have 10-15bb as the blinds increase. At such moments, even the tightest players often fall into despair. Be careful not to push your short stack into the pot at the first opportunity. This is a mistake that I often made in the past, and sometimes revert to now. Let's say I'm in mid-late position, I have 20-25bb and Ax 9x offsuit or Ax 6x suited. There is often an urge to go all-in with these hands rather than raise-fold or play it post-flop against a difficult opponent from the big blind. This is not worth doing, because the risk is too high, and the possible profit is very small. In these spots, if everyone folds, this move is worth only 2.5bb. It would be more common to have a short stack of 25 blinds in the last stages of tournaments…

dreamer13 said:

Let's say I'm in mid-late position, I have 20-25bb and Ax 9x offsuit or Ax 6x suited. There is often an urge to go all-in with these hands rather than raise-fold or play it post-flop against a difficult opponent from the big blind.

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Well, raising/folding is when we act first, but here we are talking about resteals, that is, how we act against opponents' raises from different positions.

(In most cases, i write questions about playing against unknown opponents).

{By the way, an interesting question, if in a minute the blinds increase, can we now play as if our stack already contains a smaller amount of big blinds...}

Here is the resteal table i have. But some moments in it are completely incomprehensible to me and seem erroneous.



At the top of the tables are the positions from which opponents are raising.

I think you need to have a tight table image for restealing. If you have shown yourself to be a loose aggressive type who bluffs a lot, it is a simple call for the raiser. Thats an interesting table you have, where is that from?

you also need to keep in mind the effective stack - this is important,

Markjduk said:

Thats an interesting table you have, where is that from?

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Table from the poker school article PokerStrategy

Igor Popadyk said:

you also need to keep in mind the effective stack - this is important,

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That's right, the numbers in the tables are the effective stacks (in BB).