Super Turbo Poker Sit and Go’s Tuesday, Nov 25 2008
Games Playing and The Funny Farm and Wheel Of Luck 11:47 am
On some online poker sites they have these ridiculous tournaments that are hard not to take advantage of. They start you with only 300 in chips, and the blinds increase every 3 minutes. It basically cuts to the chase of a sit and go. You are forced to play aggressively from a short stack and make profitable all-ins. But what’s key, is that everybody is a short stack. Because of this, your raises are more meaningful. By making any raise preflop, aside from perhaps a min-raise, you are forcing your opponent to make a decision for all of his online poker chips. If he calls and misses, you’re betting 100% of the time, so he loses. Your opponent has to decide if any hand he calls with will be worth it to play until the end. This brings down the value of suited connectors and speculative hands, and jumps the value of any ace and perhaps any king high hand. A massive hand like AA or KK is basically a paycheck. You can limp with these and someone will probably move all in behind you with a hand you have dominated (AK, AQ, AJ, A,10, KQ).
If nothing else, the blinds fold preflop, you win, adding 10-15% to your stack size, which is super important. If you can chip up to 400 or 500 chips, or perhaps double early by taking out a player, you can coast and wait for premiums. Also, don’t forget that when you have a double stack, you can always put the pressure on short stacks that follow you. If everyone else left to call behind you only has 200 or fewer chips, you can bet their stack size with a huge range of hands and they will; often fold, due to the gap concept (that you need a stronger hand to call a bet than to make one). And if they call, you’re not risking too much of your stack, and your cards are often live.
Of course you can push early into a monster and you’re out, but a smart aggressive poker player can walk away with a lot of money in a very short period of time by multitabling these events.
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