Tactics against thieves

This strategy will make sure you will not lose a lot of money in the long run. Either in the casinos or the online poker rooms. In the casino the tactic is not much applied but in the online poker scene it is dramatic. Some people get in a room, steal the blinds a couple of times leave and do that about a hundred times so that they have made some easy money. In a casino that is not possible, you cannot leave the table. So in a real casino try to steal the blinds, and if they call of raise then you know strength of his/her hand.

These are the hands which can defend you against blind robbers.
As the Big Blind you already have some money in the pot, so someone raises and then what? True that it costs you less to see the flop, but also you are getting blind robbers (people who will try to steal the blinds) and get free money like that. This manouver is called the “blind steal”. So you need a defence agains this. Next up are some examples when you should do what.

It depends when the raise comes, from what position. After that it depends on what hand you have. The later the raise the more hands you can call/raise with. So if the raise comes from the small blind  you raise with a pair of fours or better, Queen Jack suited and King Ten offsuit. We call only with a pair of two’s, Four Five suited and Five Six offsuit. Of course all the values in between are also called and the moment they overlap you raise. Anything below these values are folded. So you see that you play a lot of hands from the BB if the SB raises.

Now for the UTG (Under the Gun) position. They raise everyone folds and it is up to you. What do we do, well that of course depends on the hand we have. We raise with pair of Jacks, Ace King suited and Ace King off suit. We only call with these hands pair of sixes, Ten Nine suited and Ace Jack offsuit. Of course just as with the last one, here all the values in between are called and the overlapping ones are raised. Anything below this you fold, how hard this sometimes can be. If you have Ace Ten offsuit and a raise comes from UTG, you fold. In the long run you win, because you do not want to think everytime you fold a hand; If I had still betted I would have walked away with the pot. That one time you won will not weigh against the hundred or even ten times you will lose.