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Originally Posted by Mango
That's almost exactly how it happened, except I was the middle stack and was leaving all the work to the big stack. The big stack kept betting in to me rather than take on the small stack himself.
In the end I got worn down by a combination of constant all-ins from the small stack and no cards to call with, and the big stack raising me all the time.
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Sklansky once offered an interesting strategy for 3-handed play when the blinds are big and you've not got too many chips in front of you.
It goes without saying if there's a raise in front of you
already, you need to have a markedly
better hand to call that raise than you would if there was no-one in yet, but if
you're first in you can raise with many more (and poorer quality) hands than you'd be tempted to call with.
Call with fewer hands, raise with more hands then, but because the quality calling hands you will receive are going to be few and far between (and you don't have the luxury of time), rather than trying to make strategic plays on or after the flop Sklansky advocates simply either moving all-in
or folding before the flop, i.e. before the flop you're not making
ANY small raises or calls and trying to get jiggy after the first three cards come out, you're either mucking or shovelling it all in there and putting your opponents to the decision..
His 'strategy'?
If you are
first to act,
always move in before the flop with a pair, or 17 points or higher (where non-suited cards are at face value and a Jack=11, a Queen = 12 and so on....)
Always call with a pair, or 17 points or higher (where non-suited cards are at face value and a Jack=11, a Queen = 12 and so on....)
If no-one else is in the pot before you, always move in with 13 points or higher (about 70% of hands dealt meet this criteria).
In other words you'd move in with (at worst) 6-7off but you wouldn't call with it (8-9off would be your worst calling hand).
I've never tried this strategy myself but it'd be interesting to see what sort of results it would yield when you're down to the final three...