There exists an fascinating powerful in Sit and go Tournaments that occurs to me approximately one out each and every five times I place in the cash. The circumstance happens when I’m the chip chief and can take any of the other 3 outstanding gamblers out of the tournament in any given hand. In reality, I’ve them all protected and there is very probably a brief stack facing eradication on the bubble with no money. When this occurs, there is a technique I engage that confirms me as the odds on favorite to win initial place.
Let me give you a scenario for example. I am at a nine seated, 10 dollars plus 1 dollar sit down and go on Full Tilt Poker – my preferred new site. All gamblers started with 1,500 chips and there are 4 gamblers left. I occur to be the chip chief with six thousand eight hundred and fifty while a short stack who has just five hundred and twenty five chips would be to my immediate left. Another 2 players are each around three thousand one hundred 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 brief stack awaits my next move as the other two gamblers folded and I’m holding A9s.
Surely I am the favorite here, and under normal conditions would put the short stack to an all in decision. As an alternative – I fold and hand over my small blind to the small stack who now sits at a fairly relieved six hundred and twenty five chips. Why would I do that, you might ask? Having another 2 tight players, set on making the cash is an advantage to a major stack in this predicament, because having that fourth player even now alive means that I can even now threaten them with bubble play. Meaning, I can take a lot more blinds, out of position when the 2 tight players are the little blind and major blind.
With a beneficial chip lead like this one, and various tight players, I want to extract as a lot of blinds as I can because I want my dominant position even more powerful as the session changes into heads up play. This is in thinking with the first or third philosophy, wherever I know I am going to produce the money, except I would like to be aggressive shorter handed most of the time, so that I get far more than my fair share of 1st spot payoffs. Let’s say in the above circumstance that one of the other players collects all of the chips as opposed to me. We have heads up and guess what? We are practically even in chip count. Then it may well be anybody’s game. Yes, I generally do still have an advantage, but I actually want the sort of advantage where I am also a four to 1 or even 5 to one chip chief! This will virtually remove the chance of my challenger succeeding the tournament by drawing out. And we all understand how generally that occurs heads up. I’ve a video of this exact system in my absolutely free sit and go poker video series.
Keep this opportunity in mind as you obtain into a money position. Don’t start wagering like you are just content to produce the cash, bet on like you might be content to take the money!