Always steal in this situation?
 

So I've been bullying a lot with my big stack, and evidently stopped getting respect after a while. Is this an autosteal given the stack sizes? If you were villain and knew the big stack was stealing a lot, what hands do you call this with?

Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 3
Seat 2: Villain (1855)
Seat 3: Shortstack (1290)
Seat 8: Hero (6855)
Hero posts small blind (200)
Villain posts big blind (400)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ 8d, 5c ]
ShortStack folds.
Hero raises (3800) to 4000
Villain calls (1455)

Re: Always steal in this situation?
 

This type of hand always gets me into trouble when I'm the big stack. The blinds are big and villian's stack looks tiny in comparison. However, villian is short-stacked and knows you are loose. If I were villian, I would call with any two broadway cards, any ace, and maybe K8+.

Given all that and the fact that your hand is weak (132 out of 169 on the hand ranking chart that is floating around here), I would fold this here. If you double up villian here, he becomes the big stack and your back in a cat fight.

Aggression=goot. Selective aggression=better.

Re: Always steal in this situation?
 

When I've been bullying a lot with a big stack, I will use a hand like this to put the thought in my opponents mind that I CAN fold a hand, and I'm NOT just pushing with any two.

Fold here, push any two on the button next hand.

Re: Always steal in this situation?
 

I wouldn't always steal here. SB won't play that tight since hes not that far ahead of the BB. The BB has 1/3 of his chips in the pot and thus is likely to call if the SB folds. I think its just a bad steal.