Posted by Hugo | Posted in Poker | Posted on 21-08-2013
There may be an interesting powerful in Sit down and go Tournaments that takes place to me approximately one out every single five times I site in the cash. The circumstances happens 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 covered and there is fairly maybe a shorter stack facing eradication on the bubble with no money. When this happens, there’s a strategy I engage that confirms me as the odds on favored to win 1st place.
Let me offer you a situation for instance. I am at a nine seated, 10 dollars plus $1 sit down and go on Full Tilt Poker – my favourite new site. All players started with 1,500 chips and there are four players left. I occur to be the chip leader with 6,850 although a brief stack who has just 525 chips would be 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 tiny blind while the small stack awaits my next move as the other 2 players folded and I am holding Ace, nines.
Certainly I’m the favorite here, and under normal conditions would put the shorter stack to an all in decision. Instead – I fold and hand over my little blind to the quick stack who now sits at a fairly relieved six hundred and twenty five chips. Why would I do that, you might ask? Having the opposite 2 tight gamblers, set on making the money is an advantage to a huge stack in this circumstance, because having that 4th gambler still alive means that I can even now threaten them with bubble play. Meaning, I can take much more blinds, out of place when the 2 tight gamblers are the little blind and large blind.
With a good chip lead like this one, and several tight players, I want to extract as many 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 3rd philosophy, exactly where I know I’m going to make the cash, but I want to be ambitious small handed most of the time, so that I receive extra than my fair share of 1st spot payoffs. Let’s say in the above circumstances that 1 of the other players gathers all of the chips rather than me. We acquire heads up and guess what? We are almost even in chip count. Then it may possibly be anybody’s game. Yes, I usually do nonetheless have an benefit, except I genuinely want the type of benefit in which I’m also a four to one or even five to 1 chip leader! This will practically eliminate the chance of my challenger winning the tournament by drawing out. And we all understand how often that occurs heads up. I have a video of this exact system in my no cost sit and go poker video series.
Keep this opportunity in mind as you have into a money position. Don’t start playing like that you are just happy to produce the cash, play like you will be pleased to take the money!