SNG Strategy part three

Some of the players on those leaderboards will be only temporarily up there due to having a good run of luck but avoid them anyway even if they look scary. This is why I only play 10 per week at the most, most weeks it is only half that number. The fact of the matter is that you could easily get yourself into a situation where you could be the best poker player on the table and are still only breaking even.

Luckily the vast majority of players who play in SNG’s play them incorrectly and this is especially the case in the lower buy in ones.

PLAYING FOR THIRD PLACE

You are in essence playing for third place in the poker tournament. This does not mean that you want to finish third but your goal is to get into the money and you will need a strategy that will help you do that to the fullest and the strategy that is about to be presented by me will do exactly that.

This system works simply because the tactics that are being employed by many of your opposition will be wrong. This is why you check the leaderboards because if a player has played 60 SNG’s and only cashed five times then something is seriously wrong with their approach and strategy. One of the things that you will observe your poker opponents do is to start off calling, betting and raising almost straight away. They are trying to double up quickly to get into serious contention to win.

My online poker strategy calls for the exact opposite in the early stages. What I do is this, during the early levels I am playing MEGA tight. I do not call or steal raise or even defend my blinds unless I have a premium poker hand.

The fact of the matter is that you do not have to do anything at all in order to get into contention and this is what an awful lot of players that participate in SNG’s fail to take on board. I have played in SNG’s where it has been down to five players and I had not played a hand up until that point. Two seats from the money and you have not played a hand, that should highlight a very important feature of the average sit and go.

This is that too many players get themselves knocked out needlessly and far too soon. In the SNG where this actually happened then my starting stack had eroded down to about 700 or so (started with 1000) but that is not the point. Many people read about top tournament players taking risks early on to win a big multi table tournament and then try and emulate that by doing the same thing to win a 10 player sit and go.

You do not need to get busy early to win a single table tournament in the same way that you do to get a stack big enough to take you all the way to the final table and beyond in a large tournament.

Carl “The Dean” Sampson

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