Posted by Reese | Posted in Poker | Posted on 17-07-2012
There may be an fascinating powerful in Sit and go Tournaments that happens to me approximately one out every single 5 times I location in the money. The predicament happens when I’m the chip chief and can take any of the other 3 remaining players out of the tournament in any given hand. In reality, I have them all covered and there is very probably a brief stack facing elimination on the bubble with no money. When this happens, there may be a method I engage that solidifies me as the odds on favourite to succeed very first place.
Let me give you a situation for instance. I am at a nine seated, 10 dollars plus $1 sit down and go on Full Tilt Poker – my preferred new site. All players started with one thousand five hundred chips and there are four gamblers left. I happen to be the chip chief with six thousand eight hundred and fifty although a quick stack who has just 525 chips would be to my immediate left. The opposite two players are each around 3100 in chips and have stiffened up for an expected in-the-money finish. The blinds are one hundred / two hundred and I’m the tiny blind while the shorter stack awaits my next move as one other two players folded and I am holding Ace, nines.
Certainly I am the favourite here, and under normal circumstances would put the quick stack to an all in decision. Rather – I fold and hand over my modest blind to the shorter stack who now sits at a somewhat relieved 625 chips. Why would I do that, you may perhaps ask? Having the other two tight players, set on making the cash is an benefit to a major stack in this scenario, because having that fourth gambler even now alive means that I can even now threaten them with bubble play. Meaning, I can take extra blinds, out of position when the two tight players are the small blind and large blind.
With a great chip lead like this one, and a number of tight gamblers, I need to extract as quite a few blinds as I can because I want my superior position even more powerful as the session changes into heads up play. This is in thinking with the initial or third philosophy, wherever I know I’m going to produce the cash, but I need to be ruthless brief handed most of the time, so that I acquire a lot more than my fair share of 1st spot payoffs. Let’s say in the above situation that 1 of the other players gathers all the chips as opposed to me. We acquire heads up and guess what? We are virtually even in chip count. Then it may be anybody’s game. Yes, I normally do still have an benefit, but I actually want the kind of advantage wherever I am also a four to 1 or even 5 to one chip chief! This will virtually eliminate the opportunity of my opponent winning the tournament by drawing out. And we all understand how frequently that happens heads up. I have a video of this exact system in my absolutely free sit and go poker video series.
Maintain this chance in mind as you acquire into a cash position. Don’t start betting like you will be just joyful to produce the money, play like that you are pleased to take the cash!