Let's Look At Some Skills For Sit N Go Tournaments

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Let's Look At Some Skills For Sit N Go Tournaments

Sit N Go poker tournaments are a unique animal. When the blinds are small you want try to avoid a big pot unless you have a big hand and are willing to risk your tourney. An example is a hand like 99. If you don't hit a set you have to be ready to get away. These are dangerous hands to raise (or even get involved in) from early position early in a SNG.

In other poker games, you might do very well by raising with weak pocket pairs (22-88). This can create some deception to set yourself up with a huge win. It's safer with these hands to limp or call small raises. You will only hit your set one in eight times, so it's better to be careful.

With the blinds are getting big you need to get your share of steals. Taking down the blinds is essential. It becomes a battle of nerves as you play weaker hands to keep winning the blinds. If you just keep folding, your stack will dwindle down to a few useless chips.

At some point, the blinds get so big in relation to your stack size, that an all in bet is your only option. You can do this in part for variation, but once you bet, you shouldn't be folding. This is when you need to risk losing so you can have a chance to win.

When players are folding, you can go all in with more hands expecting to get no callers. How many chips you're up against is important also. The big (has enough chips to risk) and small (desperate and looking for a spot) stacks will call more often. The middle sized stack folds more, protecting their chips.

When you're on the bubble, your play is determined a lot by stack sizes. For example, you might push all in to try to knock out a short stack. You could fold the same hand pre-flop to the big stack to save chips also. Naturally, you would have to fold to a big raise.

Now is when you look to go all in, but don't think only about your cards when deciding. Anything is playable sometimes, especially if your stack will damage the others enough to scare them. When betting at a big stack you need better cards as you will get called more frequently.

When you have a big stack late in the tournament, you should be stealing the blinds often. This is best done against the medium stacks. They will feel it's too expensive to play against you and risk getting knocked out.

The problem here is you want to get to the money before losing your stack. The monster stack will knock you out, while the shorties will gamble with anything to survive. This is not an easy place to be in.

This involves learning which move is better in different situations. Do you go all in or forld? One part of the formula is predicting what your opponents will call you with. When that decision is made, it's push or wait.

These ideas cover the basic thinking that goes into SNG play. All of these ideas can be analyzed in great detail. Creating an approach to the SNG games using these ideas can lead you to becoming a winning player. Good luck.

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