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By no mean am I claiming to have been the original discoverer of this I am simply revealing it to the community as I have seen many players become frustrated at losing their gas and even pro-players who would appear to not know about this
The technique is simple and I use it in all of my TvZ matchs in which zerg gets a drone in my main before the wall is complete. It allows me to kill the drone early and forget about trying to take it out while it repeatedly builds the geyser which frees up my early marines. This leaves zerg woundering if you took the gas or not and denies scouting with the drone potentially, and relieves alot of frustration.
The Technique
Once you think the player is going to attempt to steal your gas (in my case usually as first marine is popping)
-grab worker near unused geyser
-right click on geyser and your worker will go right next to it
-press hold position
-done
![[image loading]](http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y132/epikstyles/beforegassteal.jpg)
the enemy can now not take your gas
![[image loading]](http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y132/epikstyles/aftergassteal.jpg)
simple and effective.
UPDATE
as covetousrat pointed out you can counter this by moving your worker out of vision of the geyser then ordering the worker to build on the geyser in the fog your worker will then push the hold position worker out of the way and build it.
tested and confirmed
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I have heard day9 talking about that little 'trick' at last MLG. Thank you for clarifying it with those pictures.
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Well this is sweet, naturally.
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Yeah i first released this while watching SaSe's stream.
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On October 31 2011 17:45 ReachTheSky wrote:
Yeah i first released this while watching SaSe's stream.
Lol same as me, I saw it on SaSe's stream, I always do it now, even to just delay an opponent's gas.
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lovedoctor, yea its not new by any means I first saw it a couple months ago in 1v1 obs metalopolis where people would be annoying with their critters and deny players gas for a little. Didn't realise day 9 already said it but oh well its easy access for anyone who doesn't know, that search's gas steal now  .
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37065 Posts
Oo........ now here's something BW failed to do..... :D
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Yea its pretty awesome, like denying a drone getting to that refinery spot as terran, is a victory similar to a drone getting the hatch down on a probe.
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Someone posted this for the first time on TL with the release of 1.4 (I think) although some people have confirmed it has been around since beta. I personally didn't know about it until 1.4.
Still, a lot of people should find this useful.
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Great trick. Especially important in PvZ as protoss is pretty much forced to take an early gas in that matchup, there simply isn't anything good you can do without two early gas. In PvP gas steal can be annoying too but because of the 4 gating and 1 gate FEing there are still good options when you do get gas stolen.
In any other matchups you shouldn't bother about a gas steal, you'll have a unit out to simply kill the refinery before you even want to take it.
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You should know this by now if you play the game every now and thenγ
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To counter this trick the drone can move out of sight from the gas and Build the Extractor. Move your Drone so you can't see the gas and proceed to build it. I head read this somewhere on TL from someone explained in the Hero vs MC game at MLG where Hero tries to double gas steal.
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Well shit i thought i was the one who discovered this a year ago 
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On October 31 2011 22:21 covetousrat wrote:
To counter this trick the drone can move out of sight from the gas and Build the Extractor. Move your Drone so you can't see the gas and proceed to build it. I head read this somewhere on TL from someone explained in the Hero vs MC game at MLG where Hero tries to double gas steal.
And to counter that would be to have an scv on the drone non stop till it leaves the base or is killed.
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On October 31 2011 22:21 covetousrat wrote:
To counter this trick the drone can move out of sight from the gas and Build the Extractor. Move your Drone so you can't see the gas and proceed to build it. I head read this somewhere on TL from someone explained in the Hero vs MC game at MLG where Hero tries to double gas steal.
sigh back to square 1 lol
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WHAT THE FUCK
I am so happy 11/10
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i dont see why gas stealing is even good in tvz. I dont entirely mind letting them waste a drone and wasting free minerals because there isnt really any point to get 2 gas before the very first fac created. And even if the zerg gas steals, u can do a early 1 rax CC build as a variation in response. Taking out one gas ONLY denies possibility of certain unit compo of 1-1-1, but thats honestly it.
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wow thank you for sharing! :D
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Do this all the time, it's great if a Zerg wants to try to build an extractor to save his drone from your marine, then you put an scv near the geyser and are like "NAAAHH UHHH!!!!"
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EPT
