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 SnG No Limit advice, Dr_Monkey, 2. Sep 2003 07:50 | ||
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| When I play at party's SnG $10 games, I do pretty well when the other players are loose and dare I say careless. It's not uncommon for 3 people to disappear before the 2nd level is done, sometimes the 1st. I get preplexed when you have 7 players left and the limits are growing. I played a SnG on Monday and the table was tight. One caller per hand was common, two was odd, three was rare. Short hand / higher blinds strategy says that you should get agressive to win. If I have another game where it appears people are scared to play, should I get agressive? Late position with Kx, with 1 or 2 limpers, should I raise 3x to 4x BB? | ||
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| Re: SnG No Limit advice, Jav, 2. Sep 2003 10:16 | ||
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| The PartyPoker SnG's blind structures raise so fast (and you start with only T800 chips) that if there are many good players then it's going to be a crapshoot. Within 15 minutes anyone who hasn't doubled up is shortstacked. Fortunately that's not usually the case, and you can generally let the other players knock eachother out. Then you only have to outplay whoever is left. | ||
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| Re: SnG No Limit advice, SmellsLikeVictory, 3. Sep 2003 12:31 | ||
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| This is addressed to Party's 800 starting chip SNGs. Generally, the way I play the first several rounds I might as well just post & fold. There's no point in getting involved in the first two rounds at all except with Group 1 hands and some others from the button and the blinds. Let everyone else mix it up and have some knocked out before level III. Typically it's down to 5-6 once the blinds are 50/25 and approaching 100/50. Now you have to start playing. Generally, if you've been real tight, you have 650-700 chips left. The leader will have 2500 or so. When the blinds are 100/50, blind stealing is all important. With only 650 in chips a small 150 raise can easily be called by one of the big stacks who can then outdraw you/outplay you post-flop. So I say go all-in at this stage with the hands you're going to play. This is effective because even the chip leader will be hesitant to call 650 without a premium hand as it still will represent a large portion of his stack. Obviously, you risk getting called by AA/KK/AK if you only have 88, but what are you going to do anyway when you raise 150 with 88 and get reraised. Or get called and the flop comes 52J and he bets? Often, you're going to go allin anyway post flop, so do it preflop where you'll get more hands to lay down. The don't-play-a-hand-until-100/50-then-go-all-in-everytime strategy is very effective and basically impossible to defend against. The only defense is if everyone else is doing it, too. You need to survive to the later stages with enough chips so that when you do go all-in, you're threatening to put a big dent in anyone's stack who calls you. So don't squander them in early rounds unless you have the near nuts. After that, you go all-in every time until you build a stack where you can put in "regular" 3-4X BB raise and still lay down to a reraise/flop bet. Often you'll steal enough or get a call from someone and either bust out right there or double through. Doubling through usually puts you right with the leaders and ready to compete with the final four for the first money spot. Then you have to use real short handed poker skills to get into the money. | ||
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