Blind steal gone good…slow play or take it down?

[EnderIII]

Thanks for the responses everyone, just wanted to check my line, I bet 12000 and he folded, just wanted to make sure I wasn't leaking too much value all over the place. I guess I was just hoping for a raise, but most of the time in that spot i'm really hoping not to be raised, so its probably just as well.

[Melchiades]

About the steal. Dunno how the table was playing, but would you really expect a 25BB stack to fold to a minraise with all that dead money in there?

[EnderIII]

This is a good point and one I tend to struggle with late in tournaments. There seems to be a point in a tournament at which typical preflop raises are reduced from 3x to 2.5x and then very late from 2.5x to 2x. Normal raises at the table were just min-raises and the blinds in general were not defending, so it seemed unnecessary to risk more chips since minraises seemed to have so much folding equity. Should i just buck the trend and continue raising 3x the bb? If so i might be pricing myself in to call a push in some cases that i really don't want to call with 86s, but i do want to make this steal often enough.

So to answer your question, yes, i thought he might fold to a minraise, but this was based largely on the table dynamics and I probably should have taken into account his stack size as being more likely to defend, thanks for pointing that out...quite helpful.

[schwza]

i pretty much always raise 2.5 once we get to 75/150 and beyond. not a lot of great reasoning for why, but i do.