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Stealing the blinds and hitting the flop hard

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Sunday November, 15th 2009 by fullhouse

When stealing the blinds your ideal outcome will be for the other players to fold. While many times they will fold, every once in a while they will call and you will get lucky on the flop. This is just another one of the benefits of stealing the blinds, even when it doesn’t “work”, it can still end up being incredibly profitable. When you do end up connecting with the flop, it is important that you play the hand in a way that will earn you the greatest return. Remember, when you hit the flop hard after trying to steal the blinds the other player will often give you credit for a decent hand. A raise pre flop is almost always given credit by default. Below you will see a real hand history in which this exact scenario played out.

The game is No Limit Hold’em 6-Max and we are dealt Kd 8h. It folds around to us in the SB. In an attempt to steal the blinds we make a 3x BB raise to $3. The BB elects to call and we will be forced to play the hand out of position after the flop. If we were to miss this flop it would be a difficult hand to play, with us likely making a continuation bet and then giving up if called, but the hand becomes wildly profitable when we flop trips.
No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (6-Max)
Button ($36.60)
Hero (SB) ($140.80)
BB ($100)
UTG ($100.50)

Preflop

Hero is SB with Kd, 8h
2 folds, Hero bets $3, BB calls $2

Flop

($6) Kh, 9c, Kc (2 players)
Hero bets $4, BB calls $4
The flop gives us three kings. Since we were representing a bit of strength with our pre flop raise it is a good idea to bet out on the flop. Betting out on this flop balances out our range for the times that we miss and are simply making a continuation bet. Another good reason to bet this flop is because we need to begin the process of extracting the maximum value possible from our opponent, plus if we check raise our strength will become rather apparent. We make a bet on the flop and are called.

Turn

($14) 8c (2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets $8, Hero raises to $19, BB raises to $71, Hero raises to $133.80 (All-In), BB calls $22 (All-In)
The turn gives us a full house and we have the absolute nuts, not a single hand can beat us. Now since we need to do our best to get the other player all in, we should check one time and see how our opponent reacts. If he floated the flop and has nothing we will be able to earn at least one extra bet from him, and if he is strong he will be laying the foundation for a huge pot when he makes a bet. Worst case scenario is a check from the other player, in which case we will assume relative weakness and make one moderate bet on the river.
We make the turn check raise and he comes over us, essentially committing his stack to the hand. At this point we shove the rest of our money in, he calls and we take down a large pot.

River

($200) 6h (2 players, 2 all-in)

*** SHOW DOWN ***

BB - Shows [Ks 2h] (Three of a kind, kings)
Hero- Shows [Kd 8h] (Full house, kings full of eights)
Total pot: $200