There is certainly an interesting dynamic in Sit down and go Tournaments that happens to me approximately one out each and every 5 times I place in the money. The scenario occurs when I am the chip leader and can take any of the other 3 remaining gamblers out of the tournament in any given hand. In reality, I’ve them all protected and there is fairly maybe a shorter stack facing elimination on the bubble with no cash. When this happens, there is a method I engage that confirms me as the odds on favorite to win 1st place.
Let me offer you a scenario for instance. I am at a 9 seated, 10 dollars plus one dollar sit and go on Full Tilt Poker – my preferred new site. All gamblers began with 1,500 chips and there are 4 gamblers left. I take place to be the chip chief with six thousand eight hundred and fifty even though a quick stack who has just 525 chips is to my immediate left. Another two gamblers are each around three thousand one hundred in chips and have stiffened up for an anticipated in-the-money finish. The blinds are one hundred / two hundred and I am the smaller blind even though the quick stack awaits my next move as one other two players folded and I am holding Ace, nines.
Certainly I’m the favored here, and under typical conditions would put the small stack to an all in decision. Rather – I fold and hand over my small blind to the brief stack who now sits at a somewhat relieved six hundred and twenty five chips. Why would I do that, you may perhaps ask? Having another 2 tight players, set on making the money is an advantage to a major stack in this predicament, because having that 4th player nevertheless alive means that I can nonetheless threaten them with bubble play. Meaning, I can take far more blinds, out of position when the two tight gamblers are the small blind and big blind.
With a good chip lead like this one, and a number of tight players, I would like to extract as numerous blinds as I can because I want my superior place even more powerful as the session changes into heads up play. This is in thinking with the initially or third philosophy, in which I know I am going to make the money, but I need to be aggressive shorter handed most of the time, so that I acquire more than my fair share of first location payoffs. Let’s say in the above scenario that one of the other gamblers collects all the chips instead of me. We obtain heads up and guess what? We are almost even in chip count. Then it might be anybody’s game. Yes, I generally do still have an advantage, except I really want the sort of benefit in which I am also a four to 1 or even five to one chip leader! This will virtually remove the opportunity of my opponent winning the tournament by drawing out. And we all know how often that takes place heads up. I have a video of this exact method in my free of cost sit down and go poker video series.
Keep this opportunity in mind as you have into a money position. Do not start wagering like you are just joyful to generate the cash, play like you’re joyful to take the cash!
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