[AZK]

Blind stealing in NL is sort of pointless unless you have a really short stack, 50xBB or less I'd say. If you are playing in a deep game with 150xBB+ why bother to steal 1.5xBB? Most raises from late position are more to build pots than flat out steal, the goal being to play bigger pots everytime you have a positional advantage. Natedogg talks about this in the archives, that post is well worth the read. Bottom line is basically that in NL you are trying to keep a healthy stack and don't mind slowly adding to it with mediocre hands, i.e. TPTK/2 pair etc, but ultimately you are looking for a hand to double through with, so there isn't really a point in risking a medium sized portion of your stack over one bet...make any sense?

This is assuming you are playing in a full ring game and everyone is pretty deep, it is obviously completely different in a shorthanded game or short stacked game.