Royal Flush Poker

Going on to win a SNG or ‘Sit and Go’ tournament, is not an easy thing to do for many players. They can do all the hard work in making to the final two or three players, but have trouble converting this to a first place finish.

I am sure that different players will have different theories on this but personally, I think that you need to be very aggressive from the outset. If you start off with a chip lead when you are heads up this is easier, more so for a bigger chip lead.

Almost always come into the pot raising on the first few hands, for me this is imperitive. It immediately puts a ‘siege’ mentality into the players mind. They won’t get involved in most pots if they think you are going to force them to put everything in the middle before the hand is done. If you get away with this in the first few hands, most players will retreat into their shells and wait for a strong hand, this means they start giving you many of their small blinds because they think the moment they call they are going to be faced with a big raise.

As the aggressive player you need to be ready for the moment when they make the call or
re raise you, and give them credit for a good hand, because it’s probably the hand they have been waiting for.

But if you have managed to wear them down and pick up their blinds for several hands then it might be worth making the call as an underdog. Because if you think about it, you have already picked up a lot of chips from them just through aggression, and if they are worn down to a short stack, it’s worth the gamble. If you double them up then just resume your aggressive play and wear them down again.

If your opponent starts off fighting fire with fire, and keeps betting back at you, then for me I just find a half decent hand and go for it. If I end up being on the defensive and being pushed into a corner by my opponents aggression then I’m as good as gone. Im better off finding any marginal hand and taking a stand.