Final Table Blues!!!

[maxie08]

I have the final table blues! Why? First of all I am not a big time player, but do enjoy that occasional win, how ever small it may be.

I seem to be able to get to the final table, but can't seem to win as many times as I get there I should be winning more.

I have also noticed that if I try to up my stakes and go to a say $3.20 or even a $1.20 I don't get far at all.

I don't know if I am over playing on these games therefore causing the early finish.

It almost seems like I am psyching myself out.

Thanks for letting me vent!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Poker Orifice]

If you're going out early, it sounds like you're playing too many hands. I've cashed in many a sng without even playing a single hand in the first 35 hands dealt. Winning a sng is not about winning a few hands (or more pots you win.. more likely to win sng). On the contrary, if you are observing your opponents, it's often the guys who you see playing almost no hands at all in the early going, are more often than not, the same guys who are cashing with much greater frequency.
SNG strategy is different from playing poker on a cash table or an mtt.