MTT - The Resteal

[Defendant]

The biggest factor for the re-resteal is the amount of chips you need to commit to this play. Think about it, the original raise, then the resteal with ~pot+1/2, and then the pot+1/2 AGAIN on top of that. Even if your stack is SUPER deep, this is gonna hurt, and you seem to be running a great chance of finding yourself WAY up shit creek.

[ChipFish]

This is not meant as a shot but,
This is a very good point if you just want to 'make the money'.

[Defendant]

Well, I figure that a lot of times when making the re-resteal, youre looking at pushing over half of your stack into the middle. If I do that, I better be pretty sure I get some return on my investment.

[ChipFish]

How many times do you have to squeeze into the money to equal top 1-4 money?

[Windbreaker]

When you're making the resteal, you're also doing the play with a high probability of taking the hand down uncontested. If you're targetting a player who has a loose raising standard, and you have the table image of a tight aggressive player... there's a high probability you're taking this pot down.

Think about it...if you're at a table and you raise 3x the BB and someone plays back at you for a large portion of their chips. What types of hands are you willing to gamble with in this spot? AA, KK, QQ, AK.....maybe jacks....other than that....you're probably folding this hand.

That's the whole point of the resteal....it's more likely you hold a mediocre to weak hand and will lay the hand down to someone showing strong agression.