Allen Cunningham has a new article on the Full Tilt Poker website in regards to stealing blinds during the midpoint of tournaments. It’s pretty standard advice, but I like the way Cunningham makes specific references to hands and how he plays them in certain spots. A good overview on position stealing in tournaments for those who haven’t read a lot.
It really can be amazing how many chips you can accumulate without ever picking up a hand, and just using your position and the fact that most of the time your opponents will not have large holdings against them. The last …read more

In the few books I’ve read on late tournament play (and coming off a conversation with my buddy Durden in regards to the subject), the subject of how to play a short stack late in a tournament to stay alive and/or steal blinds has come up several times in the past few days for me. The logic on what kind of hand is good to try to take control with surprises a lot of people in that it doesn’t quite go along with the logic of normal play.
For instance, would you rather push all in in the cut-off with 6 …read more