Adding the Resteal to your Tournament Arsenal

#1
Always looking to improve my multitable tournament play... I've been looking at some elements to improve my game when I realized that the RESTEAL, which previously had not been in my arsenal of moves, can be used very effectively to bump up your chipstack or keep afloat when you are a medium stack... even when card dead.

I cobbled the following together from various places -- sort of my own 'cheat sheet' of the resteal. Any thoughts on the RESTEAL? Do you ever use it? Successfully?

Things to consider when restealing (in order):

1) The raiser’s image/style
Player images to look for:
a) Aggressive players
b) Predictable steal attempts
c) Has he folded to a reraise in the past?
If he calls you will he check/fold on the flop?
d) He needs to be a medium stack or smallish-big stack

2) Does he have a reason to fold (i.e. bubble, higher payout)?

3) The size of his stack

4) The size of your stack
# of BB in your stack
a) 1 – 10 BB Resteals aren’t really possible here.
You should be looking to be the original stealer.
Dan Harrington’s 1st in vigorish
b) 11-20 BB Optimum stack size to resteal.
Not good for being the original stealer though as resteals
and calls leave you with tough decisions after the flop.
c) 21-34 BB Resteals are a bad idea here,
you have too many chips to commit all in and post flop decisions
are tough in this range after you have committed a large portion
of your stack.
d) 35+ BB You have breathing room post flop and the ability to
fold to an All in reraise. (This is the best position to be in
late in a tourney as you can steal and resteal with reckless abandon.)

5) Is there a tight player in the BB?

6) What odds are you offering the initial raiser?
Size of the resteal in relation to the initial raise:
a) If you are pushing, you want the push to be 4-7x the initial raise to get fold equity.
b) If the push is for less than 4x or greater than 9x the initial raise, then you generally shouldn’t resteal.

7) Your hand’s equity if/when you are called
(the point, however, is to NOT be called)
 
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Cloud Nine

I had to open my big mouth.......
#2
The resteal is a great tool even more so nowadays in that you have a lot more players who "understand" that you're supposed to C-bet when you're the preflop aggressor. Funky flops with a J high are perfect for a resteal when youre in position. It works great for me at home tourneys in early rounds.
 
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