single table SNgo

[szcott]

Would you slow play the table until a ig hand or go right away and try for big wins.

[wicked663]

I think everyone has a different way of playing. I personally like to play 10 man sit n gos with 10 to 12 min blinds because it gives me the time I need to get to know the players at the table and vise versa. I play fairly tight and don't make any major moves until I feel the table image I want to progect is established.

[kingmotan]

It;s simple. Play tight in the beginning (20-30min)
I like to start playing after 1st one is out and the table isn;t balanced anymore.
But for no good reason I and up being the 2nd one out or winning it

[Ripclawph]

i only played a few single table sngs and im not good at it.
i get sucked out most of the times especially on turbos!
but i do think being tight on the early part gives you a lot of
advantages you have to switch you pace on the mids of the game
or you'll get eaten by the blinds!

[GypsyTea]

i only played a few single table sngs and im not good at it.
i get sucked out most of the times especially on turbos!
but i do think being tight on the early part gives you a lot of
advantages you have to switch you pace on the mids of the game
or you'll get eaten by the blinds!

You are better off in a deep stack if you can find one. It's to manic with only 1000 to 1500 chips.

Better off in Poker Stars they give you 2000 chips and longer on the blinds.

The other way is to play loose with any ace rag or doubbled paint starting hand,
min raise every thing.
but place a micro sit&go it can silly if you play over $50+ games You have to play REAL poker in them ag stars or maybe Carbon for a good sit&go

Regards

G

[Poker Orifice]

You are better off in a deep stack if you can find one. It's to manic with only 1000 to 1500 chips.

Better off in Poker Stars they give you 2000 chips and longer on the blinds.

The other way is to play loose with any ace rag or doubbled paint starting hand,
min raise every thing.
but place a micro sit&go it can silly if you play over $50+ games You have to play REAL poker in them ag stars or maybe Carbon for a good sit&go

Regards

G

Not to be controversial, but I have to say I strongly 'disagree' here. For one, what sngs on Stars have 2,000 starting chipstacks? (I've never seen any over 1500 on that site).
Also, the player traffic on sngs on Stars & Fulltilt is far greater than Carbon at any buyin levels above the super micros, so unless you want to sit there drinking coffee, waiting for one game to open up, my advice would be to play on the sites (for those specific buyins) that have high volume of player traffic.

I also disagree with this 'suggested sng strategy'. To be playing any weak Ace in early levels is just plain bad. If you can limp in behind a couple of other limpers in later position with a decent speculative hand, then sure.. go for it. But generally speaking, there isn't a whole lot of time for playing like this in a sng (the more you do this, you will just be spewing off chips,.. better to hang onto them and get them in good on a big hand and then play it aggressively).

A very brief overview of typcial 'winning' sng strategy, is to avoid confrontation in early levels. Play tight in early going (tight not to be confused with passive,.. play tight but Agressive).
As blinds begin to escalate and stealing the blinds becomes necessary for survival, make sure you're getting your share of the blinds pretty much every orbit. If you're on a particularly aggressive table and can't find spots to get your chips into the pot first, then try to look for 're-steal' oppurtunities (ie. if a particularly aggress. BTN or CO is raising on your blinds regularly, then fire out a re-steal raise).

key strategy in sng is to try to maintain a decent stack and to stick around till the game approaches the bubble. Winning hands in early going isn't going to win the game for you (if you can win a hand.. great... what I mean is.. your object isn't to try to win a bunch of pots like it would be in a cash game,.. risking chips from your stack is way more detrimental than the ones you'd gain.... your tournament equity doesn't increase proportionally to how much it would decrease if you lost those hands). You need to maintain a decent enough stack size so that you'll have Fold Equity once the blinds increase and the game becomes more of a shove/fold deal.

Also, in later stages of game (in most circumstances) don't let your stack fall below 10bb's (unless blinds have gotten so huge that all the players are well below this mark). And once you are below 10bbs, you preflop move is now limited to fold or shove.

To get decent at sng's I'd advise getting educated on I.C.M. (Independent Chip Model) and to know how & why this affects the game. Even if you choose to not play by this principle, it's good to get yourself educated about it because most of the players on your table will be.

A great SNG book is Collin Moshmann's SNG Strategy book. Well worth reading it for sure!!!
GL on the tables!

[GypsyTea]

Not to be controversial, but I have to say I strongly 'disagree' here. For one, what sngs on Stars have 2,000 starting chipstacks? (I've never seen any over 1500 on that site).
!

25cent sit and go Poker Stars , starting chips 2000. 90 seat ( or may be you calling this a mini tourny ?) apparantley it pays $6 + change to the winner Very Good EV.

Regards

Gypsy

Now if you got a BR of over 100 bucks and you are going to be playing this, 1st set of 4 blind levels SMASH IT IN, dont sit there for hours waiting for a hand for 6 bucks. I would also try playing 6 to 10 of them at the same time. 10 x 25cents = $2.50 There's some guy on Ytube videoing 10 table micro buy in multi tabling and giving you tips how to win money at it, Can not think of his name off hand, think he is a German ( if that helps)



Add-On:-

If you want to stick to 1 Table Think you will find it "more productive" playing 7CS or 4O macro, on CARBON Poker. or 4O on PKR ( no 7CS at the moment at PKR)

Add=On 2 email:

OK if you Indulge in a little of what I call "Smash and Grab" Tactics ( ie smash your stack in with any 5 to 1 shot or lower, you sort of SCREW Up folks who like

"Independent Chip Modeling " <wink>

[tahoeden]

Play tight early....then let the chips fly......

[willie beaman]

Start off tight to see how the other players are playing. Try to pick up any tells or betting patterns by your opponents and see if anyone is controlling the action. Base your play off these factors and anything else that you may pick up. Ultimately, you want to win the sng, but no one can win it on the first hand, but most definately lose on the first hand.

[derringer007]

Play tight early....then let the chips fly......

I knew it, ive been doing to much. If was as easy as this post says we would all be poker millionaires.