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October 15, 2008

A Sit and Go Strategy

Sit and gos can be a very profitable form of poker for a player with the right skills how also uses these sitandgotips.
Since sit and gos are always exactly the same, once you have a winning system in place the only thing holding back your profits are how many sit and gos you can play.
Sit and goes always have the early stages, middle stages, and late stages, and if you can master each stage of the tournament you will see increased profits and a steady stream of income.
This article will teach you about each stage, and how to dominate sit and goes from start to finish.

Early Stages

During the early stages your main goal in the tournament is to maintain your chip stack.
Since most players will be playing really aggressive at this stage, it is to your benefit to sit back and watch a few players knock each other out.
This will give you a better shot at making the money, and will help you avoid any bad beats early on because you wont be gambling with the maniacs.

An example of a hand where you should take it easy is if you have KQs in the big blind, and there is a raise and reraise in front of you.
Since it is almost a guarantee that this is going to be a huge pot, you may as well save your chips because if you miss the flop you will have to toss the hand away anyways.

However, even though you should be protecting your stack, there are some situations in sit n go strategy where you will need to get your money in.
If you have JJ and a maniac makes a raise in front of you, dontt be afraid to reraise him/her or even get all in if it comes down to it.
Since you have determined he/she is a crazy player, and you have a quality hand, it makes sense to get all your chips in preflop if you can do it heads up.

Middle Stages

This is where you want to start accumulating chips so you can take over during the late stages. To do this, start utilizing blind steals and continuation bets to pad your stack and eventually build it up to at least double your starting stack.

The best times to steal blinds are when you are in late position, preferably in dealer position or the cut-off, and action has folded around to you.
I like to wait until antes are in effect as well because it adds quite a bit of chips to the pot.
Once action folds to you, make a raise of 2-3x the big blind.
The reason you are making the small raise is because if the blinds have garbage, they will fold, but if they do re-raise you, you only lose 2-3 big blinds instead of 4-5 big blinds.

Continuation bets are bets that you make on the flop after you raised preflop. Whenever you raise with a big hand during the middle stages, and get called, you will want to make a continuation bet to continue showing strength.
This bet should be  a ½-a pot sized bet, and should force other players out unless they hit the flop hard.
If another player does stay in, make sure to slow down on the turn, but you still may be ahead.

Late Stages

The late stages of a sit and go are where things start to get tricky, because this is usually right around the bubble, and stack sizes are getting smaller and smaller compared to the blinds and antes. Because you have fewer chips relative to the big blind, you need to play more aggressive to accumulate enough chips to stay alive. To do this, continue blind stealing, and also add the re-steal to your repertoire.

The blind steal will be the same as what I talked about above. However, the re-steal is basically a defense against a blind steal, and should be used against aggressive players who are consistently stealing your blinds.
The best time to do this is when a very aggressive player has raised your blind at least twice in a row, and he/she does it again.
Make a re-raise of 3-4x their original raise, even if you dont have a hand. They will respect your re-raise and fold, which will add a nice boost to your stack and help to push you into the money.

Once you reach the money, continue playing aggressively to put the pressure on your opponents, and dont be afraid to get your money in if it comes down to it.

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