STT SnGs
Thursday, March 11th, 2010A basic poker strategy for just about all online poker tournament play is to play tight early and open up later when the blinds are higher. This has never been truer for single table sit-n-go games. Here’s the logic.
You’re going to get a lot of limpers early on, that limp with garbage since the blinds aren’t so valuable. Well, if they’re not valuable, why limp? Why not wait and catch a premium hand and raise.
The next tip you’ll get is that you’re going to want to limp your pocket pairs lower than TT, especially if you’re in position. You do this for set value. Since when you hit your set 1.) it’s a disguised hand and 2.) it’s bound to pay off about 70% of the time unless your facing set over set or set vs. straight or flush. Both of which are highly unlikely on the flop.
Finally, you get to the late game. SnGs are easy at the late game, your decisions, they become so simple. If you’re high stacked, you bully. If you’re low stacked, you have only two moves, push fold. If you’re calling 200 with a stack of 1000, then you’re just wasting your time. It’s push/fold all the way. Again, because all-in scares people, and two, you can’t be bluffed off an all-in.
Use these simple sit-n-go strategies and you’ll start to see your winnings jump exponentially when you play poker online.