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I played in a HORSE tourney on FullTilt last night. I final tabled and finished 8th. I was 3rd going into the Stud and Stud H/L levels. The blinds were rather large $600/$1200 with me having only $17k in chips. Chip leader sat on $70k. 2nd on $35k. So everyone else was pretty short stacked. These are my worst 2 games. I called too many raises when I was on the "bring-in" and never hit my draws. My stack dwindled to where I was pushing just to fight it out for the low. I know it was bad play on my part. If I had simply folded until I got to Holdem+, I think my finish would have been stronger. But hindsight is always 20/20.

With this I really have only one question. How do you handle large blinds when playing Stud games?

Tighten up...don't chase...keep the quality 'opening hand standard'...pair, 3 cards to a flush or strt. Otherwise bail out. If you dont improve on the flush or strt hand on 4th street...bail.