One
of the areas of my poker game that is lacking is
my sit and go abilities. I have tried many different
strategies, and continually attempt to improve,
but continue to struggle. A friend of mine, who
happens to be a very good poker player, suggested
one of the most interesting strategies that I have
found.
It
consists of either folding or moving all in pre flop
until you reach the final three spots, which are the
money positions. Once you get into the top three, you
revert to what would be considered more normal play.
This system has a pretty solid set of guidelines, which
we will cover shortly, but in my limited experience,
it only works with any degree of success at the lower
level buy-in sit and go's. I tested it at the 10 plus
1 buy-in level, with some success. The reason it works
better at the lower levels is that there are many more
players willing to gamble, by calling all ins with hands
as poor as A9 or even KQs at times. As you advance to
higher buy-ins, the numbers of players who do things
like this are greatly reduced.
The
list of hands that you will move all in with during
the early rounds includes AA KK QQ JJ AKs and AK.
As you move further into the tournament, you will
either have been able to increase your chip stack
or the blinds will start eating away at your stack.
In the event you have been fortunate enough to improve
your stack, you can continue playing the same way.
However, if you start getting short stacked, you
expand your hands to include TT 99 88 AQs AQ and
AJs, and if you get severely short, you add all
other pairs and possibly ATs and A9s.
This style of play offers many positives. If any
of your opponents is paying attention, they will
realize that you are playing tight and that when
you do play you have a good hand. This can help
you steal a few blinds late in the tournament, when
they get big enough to fight for. It also gives
you a great chance to double up in the early rounds.
Lastly, because you are only playing a few hands,
you can easily play more than one sit and go at
a time.
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