Re: tourney first: whats the longest you\'ve NOT played a hand
Exactly. You must start stealing every so often so as not to get blinded down. The beauty of the blind steal attempt is that you can do it with any two cards. If you get called and the flop misses you, and there is a bet you fold. If a miracle flop comes, you win more. If you get reraised preflop, you fold.
This is very hard for some people to do, because it involves raising with hands you would not normally play. I have even gone so far as to put index cards over my cards on the screen, so that I can't even see them when I am in the blind stealing mode to help get me through the mental block of worrying about my cards.
Vary your stealing so as to not do it every round, unless you have a hand you don't mind a reraise with. The beauty is when you get AA and raise your steal amount and someone comes way over the top to "defend their blind".
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