Bubble time lesson(Lagtard and Turte)

Situation, you are approaching the money bubble of a good sized tournament. Table is a mix of stack sizes. You are above average in chipstack but there are a few bigger at the table. Changes at your table are, on of the larger stacks is now in chip up mode(I will call him LAGtard), the other big stack is playing his normal game, and two of the medium short stacks have gone into Turtle mode. They just won’t peak the heads out of the shell until the bubble has past, these two are the most common victims of the LAGtards aggress. You have position on the LAGtard on his steals against the Turtles. His steals are like clockwork on these two, 2.5x bb raise-3x bb raise, each and every time they are on the blind. Has folded twice to reraises from other players during these steals.

He is stealing from you buddies. These should be your steals. So, every third or forth steal attempt from him, you should reraise. Doesn’t matter the cards, his don’t, but it is a matter of pressure and chipping up. If you resteal every third or fourth time, you are still chipping up every cycle on average. If your steal fails and at times it might, you are still in the hunt and can steal again later. Now, you only need to succeed on these steals about 40% of the time to keep chipping up. Also, this might get the LAGtard to tighten his requirements as well, which is great. Then our steals become ours again. Win, win.

Having nothing on these steals is actually a bit favorable then having a medium hand as well. Why? If you get reraised, it is such an easy dump after Hollywooding for a bit. Another thing is if you just get smoothcalled and hit the flop hard, he will never know what the fraq hit him. Most important on this whole resteal is position and pressure.

Now, you will need an M high enough to do this successfully or you might get stuck if one of your steals goes foul. This also can not be done against a total donk that can not lay down after he puts money in the pot. This situation is very specific. You need a LAGtard that can lay down, enough stack size to put pressure on him, and enough sense to get away when you don’t have anything(don’t get attached to your chips).

GL and see you at the FT.