Online Poker Sit 'n' Go Strategy
Strategy:
- Find a 5 player table sit 'n' go, that pays up to 3rd place
- Sit down at 4 of these tables at the same time
- Play TIGHT .. and we mean tight till until 2 people are knocked out
(Only play AA, KK, AK, AQ suited)
- Now loosen up start away, play good agressive poker..
( Worst that can happen is you dont win anything but with four games going
at a time, your odds are very good )
- We found game times averaged at about 30 min each.
- Thats 8 games every hour - at $2.50 or $5 buy-in
( Anything above $5 buy-in we found the competition to strong and tight. )
- We make on average in an hr:
3rd in 3 games - $0
2nd in 3 games - $7.50
1st in 2 games - $15.00
- On average, a profit (including deduction of rakes) of $22.50 an hour easily..
- Its a very easy and solid way to make a lot of money playing online and from
home.
Note :
To win this money consistently, wihtout lossing any of it, please note:
-
Sit down at the first table for 3 min, then the next table and 3 min later the
next table etc.
(Reason behind this is so that you dont end up head to head on all 4 tables
at the same time and it gives you a better chance)
- Take a brake every hour - set an alarm and take a brake for 15 min ..IT WILL
SAVE YOU MONEY (Tiredness is the biggest enemy to playing online poker)
- Never ever, play when your drunk or the morning after the night before .. YOU
WILL LOSE YOUR WHOLE BANKROLL .. Believe us its the worst thing you
could do.
- Try to play around peak hours (6-11 in the evening and no later then 12) ..
the competition is to strong after this time and you will find it hard to stay in
till 3rd place.
- DISIPLINE - if you have this you will make a fortune online .. but only if you
have DISIPLINE!
Now go and make some easy money, courtesy of POKERSlibrary.com
Background to Sit 'n' Go Strategy
The Sit N Go (SNG) is online poker's great gift to the aspiring tournament player.
Prior to the SNG, final table experience was hard to come by. You could enter a
dozen multi-table tournaments and never find yourself at a final table. Or you could
make one or two, only to get knocked out in 8th or 9th place. Adapting to an ever-
diminishing number of players at a single table is a crucial skill in tournament
poker, and it's a hard experience to find offline without investing a lot of time and
money. Online, this experience is a mouse-click away. The SNG's advantages are
many. For starters, it's low-cost, or even free. It's also fun, and convenient: You don't
need to schedule it -- a SNG starts every time the table fills up -- and it's usually over
in less than an hour. It is the flight simulator of Final Table play, and mastering it
should be considered mandatory homework for the serious student.
Now that you know why you should play, let's look at how:
The most obvious difference between a SNG and a multi-table tournament is that
when someone goes broke in a SNG, there isn't someone waiting to fill their spot.
Multi-table play consists mostly of full-table, ring game poker. But as players get
eliminated from a SNG, the table gets shorter- and shorter-handed. This reduction
in players basically serves to artificially raise the antes. For instance, say you are
playing five-handed and the blinds are 100-200: You are paying 300 in blinds for
every five hands, or 60 per hand. As soon as someone gets knocked out, you're
four-handed. Now you're paying 75 per hand -- a 25% increase -- despite the fact
that the blinds have remained the same. Accordingly, you're forced to gamble more,
or risk getting blinded out.
Since the size of the blinds relative to your stack size should always play a major
role in you hand selection, we recommend starting out with pretty conservative
starting hand requirements. This serves two functions: First, the blinds dictate that
you play fairly tight early; the blinds are small and you are nine-handed, so they don't
come around as often. Second, this helps you establish a tight image, which you
hope will pay off later when the blinds are high and you might really need a timely
ante steal.
But there is another not-so-obvious reason to play tighter earlier and looser later:
The payout structure rewards tight play. Most SNG's pay 50% to first, 30% to
second, and 20% to third. This payout structure dictates that you play for third. Why?
Looking at the payout structure another way might help. Basically, the payout means
that 60% gets awarded once you are down to three players, 20% gets awarded
when you get down to two players, and the final 20% gets awarded to the winner. If
you can just get to third, you get at least one-third of 60% of the prize pool, or 20%.
You've locked up a profit, and you have a chance to win up to 30% more. It's only
now that you're in the top three that your strategy should take an abrupt turn. Now it
pays to gamble for the win. Let's look at the numbers again: 60% of the prize pool is
off the table, and moving up one spot is worth only another 10%. But move up just
one more spot and it's worth a whopping 30% extra -- that's three times more for
first than it is for second. And with the blinds going up, gambling for the win is even
more clearly the correct play.
WeI see many players employ a nearly opposite strategy. They figure they have
nothing to lose, so they go for the quick double-up early. They take chances too
soon when, in their view, there's "nothing on the line". Then, once they're in the
money, they tighten up, thinking about that extra payout for moving up a spot. If you
start to rethink your SNG approach and adopt a "slow early, fast late" strategy, you
will see an almost immediate improvement in your results.
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