10 man SNG's R 2 EZ

[PoppiesBluff]

SNG’s are 2 EZ …

The title is very true to an extent! Yeah if they’re so easy then why aren’t more of us getting rich with them more often? Well, that’s another story about are greed and I’ll have to get to that another time. But the fact remains is that SNG’s (Sit and Goes) are so easy to make the money that you’d be a fool not to try them.

Well, let’s compare them for a moment and see with just the structure of a SNG as to why I state such a fact. First of all let’s state the obvious; SNG’s are easy because they’re made up of one table. Only ten players are in a SNG. Seven players get knocked out and you’re in the money. That’s it! The top three spots get paid off and double your entry fee. So we all must agree that 7 players are easier to beat than say 70 or 170 or …. Well you get the picture right?
Next thought with SNG’s are easy because there is always someone who will ‘mix it’ up too early to simply steal the blinds at a point when they’re not worth stealing. Let’s just say for sake of argument the blinds begin at $25/$50. Is $75 worth risking half your stack on any marginal hand simply to steal? No way! So why do it? Good answer you don’t but players will and do much more than you think. Next question; why would you call or try to steal back with less than a marginal hand or better yet why call with less than the nuts? So the first rule of SNG’s are easy is the obvious only play early on with the nuts and nothing less. Yes, you heard me nothing less! Until three players are knocked out don’t play anything other than AA, KK or QQ only! Watch what the first three players hole cards are when they win or get knocked out. If they hold one of these three starting hands and get beat so be it. But more than not you’ll see they have way less than these, so if you’re only playing these 3 starting hands, it doesn’t take any rocket scientist to see how will win more than not.
Okay, next thought! SNG’s are easy because they take approximately less than an hour to finish. Not 3, 4 or more hours like any MTT (Multi Table Tournament) you might play. Thus you can see the light at the end of the tunnel (judging by chip stacks and players left), in about 35 minutes or so and as you get better at doing this, begin your next SNG at this time. Yes, I’m advocating playing at least two SNG’s at the same time! Why because SNG’s are easy! Unlike a MTT’s with many different factors to entertain you’re only playing AA, KK or QQ for your start of SNG’s so you’ll be folding quite a lot more than playing. This way you can pay more attention to your game you’ve been playing as you fold out of the new game watching the early mixer uppers fall out the new game!

Now we’re down to four maybe five players or less to contend with and your starting hands no doubt open up and become more marginal as the table gets shorter and the blinds become higher, even A/rag (ace / anything under 9) come into play. At this point in the game we’ve eliminated the ‘loose’ players and what should be left is those better, more worthy of playing players and thus more predictable players. Making your SNG, yes, you guessed it easy! SNG’s are easy because players are predictable! The better players play tight early on and loosen up as the game progresses and the looser player play loose and don’t make it to the later on. (Unless they’re very lucky; and if that’s the case well SNG’s are easy why because loose lucky players are predictable!) So now we’ve played 30, 35 minutes or so, we’re down to 4 maybe 5 players (more than likely better players) and are starting hands open up to AA, KK, QQ, any A, any two painted cards. When you hold these cards, play them strong, but not too strong (not risking a third of your stack) pre flop and if you hit the flop push very hard (say better than half of your opponents stack and not to the point you’re pot committed (the rest of your stack being less than the raise). If they come back over the top, be prepared to release the hand and take the loss knowing that you’re beat (better players here now). But most likely if you’ve hit your opponents have missed and you’ll take down the pot with your strong bet.

Last thought is SNG’s are easy because once you’ve made the money aggression and a good card wins the game. Ok, you’ve made the money and now it’s time to take first place and thus win more money! Three players are left now, you and two others and now I say see every flop as cheaply as you can and then decide to continue or not. (Only exception here is total garbage cards and you have the dealer button). If you are the dealer this is the only time to be choosy. If you’re not the dealer, you already have monies in the pot and in an unraised pot it’s a small thing to complete the small blind or check your option in the big blind. And the thought here is to do neither, why because SNG’s are easy if you’re aggressive at this point. So don’t simply call! If you’re going to play any hand at this point you must raise! Thus, pressure poker! Put the pressure on your opponent to decide is this pot really worth playing for or are their cards really worth your strong raise? So yes bet and bet big if you decide to play the hand. Make it hard for your opponent to call your raise. So no, a min raise does nothing here. Make them pay to play and pay dearly to the point where they must play premium cards only to call. Aggression aggression aggression wins SNG’s!


Here we have it folk’s! SNG’s are easy because,
1) The field is small, not a lot of players to beat
2) There’s always some loose players trying to get lucky too early on
3) It doesn’t take a long time to see a profit and thus more than one game can be played simultaneously
4) Players are predictable
5) Aggression always prevails provided you choosing wise hands to mix it up in and you’re willing to release your hand when your gut says you’re beat

Hope this has been as much of a joy for you to read as it was for me to write! See you all at the tables and remember SNG’s are easy if you play them right! No need for any fancy moves as in trapping or bluffs. Play tight aggressive poker and you’ll be surprised at how many times you’ll cash in a SNG!

[slowpoke]

I agree...and they provide a decent return...

[mollila]

Quite difficult to read as one block, could you please edit it to paragraphs?

[tony]

Thats what I call a huge piece of text...

[PoppiesBluff]

Originally Posted by mollila Quite difficult to read as one block, could you please edit it to paragraphs?

sry it just wont allow you to indent

[PoppiesBluff]

Originally Posted by mollila Quite difficult to read as one block, could you please edit it to paragraphs?

There! Hope that's better....

Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated

[mollila]

Originally Posted by PoppiesBluff sry it just wont allow you to indent

If you click the Go Advanced button in the message window, you'll get more edit buttons. Including indenting, list, font styles, colors, sizes etc. The BB code list also has the BB codes that can be written instead of using buttons. For example: [indent]indent this[/indent]

But this is getting off topic

Although I only play SNG and multitable tournaments occasionally for fun, many players do methodically multi table them for profit.