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Hello All:

I was On-line today an decided to try a $5.50 Maui Sit & Go on titan an was knocked out, but after the game I replayed my action's in my head as to what I did wrong. I found myself playing just to stay alive an not get knocked out, instead of pacing myself an waiting for nice hands to crush my opponent's. I also didn't even try to steal any blinds from people playing to aggressive an bluffing. I found this site that offer info in-ref to this an from here on out I plan to in-corporate this strategy into my game. Towards the middle of the tournament, you need to switch gears. Since the blinds get bigger, stealing the blinds will help you stay alive. Here, the 'gap' concept becomes more important. It takes a much weaker hand than usual to raise to steal the blind, but a stronger hand than usual to call a raise. The middle rounds introduce the 'survival mode' concept.
Again, most of the time you will be looking just to survive and increase your stack bit by bit in the middle rounds. You want to avoid confrontation without the nuts and just take down some small pots without controversy.
However, if you are a large chip stack (or even just a medium one), you may want to take advantage of this survival mode. Take control of the game by raising and frequently putting other people at a decision for all of their chips. After all, if they go all-in, they're risking it all but you aren't because you can lose the pot and still keep on fighting. However, don't do this too much. Steal some pots, but don't be so obvious that people will call you all-in with top or even second pair. Also, don't do this against very bad players. They will call everything.

P.S. I hope this is as helpful to you as it was to me.

SHERMSTICK

Thanks for the advice Shermstick! Ill be sure to remember this the next time i play a tourny