There is an fascinating dynamic in Sit and go Tournaments that happens to me approximately one out each and every 5 times I site in the money. The situation occurs when I’m the chip leader and can take any of the other three remaining players out of the tournament in any given hand. In reality, I’ve them all covered and there is rather possibly a small stack facing eradication on the bubble with no money. When this occurs, there may be a technique I engage that confirms me as the odds on favored to succeed very first place.
Let me give you a situation for example. I am at a 9 seated, $10 plus one dollar sit down and go on Full Tilt Poker – my favorite new site. All players began with one thousand five hundred chips and there are four players left. I occur to be the chip leader with six thousand eight hundred and fifty while a short stack who has just 525 chips would be to my immediate left. The opposite 2 players are both around 3100 in chips and have tightened up for an anticipated in-the-money finish. The blinds are 100/200 and I’m the tiny blind even though the quick stack awaits my next move as the other 2 players folded and I’m holding Ace, nines.
Surely I am the preferred here, and under normal circumstances would put the quick stack to an all in decision. As an alternative – I fold and hand over my tiny blind to the small stack who now sits at a somewhat relieved 625 chips. Why would I do that, you may ask? Having the opposite two tight players, set on making the cash is an benefit to a huge stack in this circumstance, because having that fourth gambler even now alive means that I can nevertheless threaten them with bubble play. Meaning, I can take more blinds, out of position when the 2 tight gamblers are the modest blind and large blind.
With a excellent chip lead like this one, and a number of tight players, I wish to extract as a lot of blinds as I can because I want my dominant place even more powerful as the session changes into heads up play. This is in thinking with the very first or 3rd philosophy, wherever I know I am going to produce the money, except I would like to be ruthless short handed most of the time, so that I obtain extra than my fair share of initial area payoffs. Let us say in the above circumstance that 1 of the other players gathers all of the chips as opposed to me. We get heads up and guess what? We are almost even in chip count. Then it may well be anybody’s game. Yes, I generally do still have an advantage, except I actually want the kind of advantage wherever I’m also a four to one or even 5 to 1 chip leader! This will practically remove the probability of my challenger winning the tournament by drawing out. And we all understand how usually that happens heads up. I have a video of this exact strategy in my free of cost sit and go poker video slot machines series.
Maintain this opportunity in mind as you have into a cash position. Don’t start betting like you are just joyful to produce the cash, play like you might be happy to take the money!
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