Poker Sit and Go Announcement: Displaying Care for the Small Stack
by Bo on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
There’s an fascinating dynamic in Sit and go Tournaments that takes place to me approximately one out every single five times I location in the cash. The situation occurs when I am the chip leader and can take any of the other 3 outstanding players out of the tournament in any given hand. In fact, I’ve them all protected and there is fairly perhaps a short stack facing elimination on the bubble with no cash. When this occurs, there is a system I engage that solidifies me as the odds on preferred to win very first place.
Let me offer you a situation for example. I am at a 9 seated, ten dollars plus $1 sit and go on Full Tilt Poker – my favourite new site. All players started with 1,500 chips and there are 4 gamblers left. I take place to be the chip leader with six thousand eight hundred and fifty whilst a small stack who has just 525 chips would be to my immediate left. Another 2 gamblers are both around 3100 in chips and have stiffened up for an anticipated in-the-money finish. The blinds are 100/200 and I am the little blind whilst the small stack awaits my next move as another two players folded and I’m holding Ace, nines.
Surely I am the favourite here, and under regular circumstances would put the small stack to an all in decision. Instead – I fold and hand over my modest blind to the brief stack who now sits at a fairly relieved six hundred and twenty five chips. Why would I do that, you may perhaps ask? Having one other 2 tight gamblers, set on making the cash is an advantage to a huge stack in this situation, because having that 4th gambler still alive means that I can nevertheless threaten them with bubble play. Meaning, I can take a lot more blinds, out of position when the 2 tight gamblers are the small blind and massive blind.
With a excellent chip lead like this one, and numerous tight gamblers, I desire to extract as many blinds as I can because I want my superior place even stronger as the session changes into heads up play. This is in thinking with the 1st or 3rd philosophy, where I know I am going to make the cash, but I wish to be ambitious short handed most of the time, so that I acquire extra than my fair share of initial place payoffs. Let’s say in the above circumstances that one of the other players collects all the chips instead of me. We obtain heads up and guess what? We are practically even in chip count. Then it may perhaps be anybody’s game. Yes, I generally do still have an benefit, except I really want the sort of benefit where I’m also a 4 to 1 or even five to one chip chief! This will virtually eliminate the opportunity of my challenger winning the tournament by drawing out. And we all understand how frequently that takes place heads up. I’ve a video of this exact strategy in my absolutely free sit and go poker video slot machines series.
Maintain this opportunity in mind as you obtain into a cash position. Do not start playing like you might be just joyful to produce the cash, bet on like that you are content to take the money!
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