| This is a discussion on 9 player sit and go strategy within the online poker forums, in the Learning Poker section; I was playing one of these for a change earlier today, I always make copious player notes as my netbook is too slow to run ... |
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| 9 player sit and go strategy I was playing one of these for a change earlier today, I always make copious player notes as my netbook is too slow to run Roger's tracking software, and one player in particular interested me because he had not played any hands in the first 20 Eventually on hand 24 he went all in pre-flop from the button, and of course the blinds folded. No more hands played until hand 33, then he opened all in pre-flop and I called from the button with AQos, he had a pair of 9s I hit my ace (and my queen) and he was eliminated, having played two hands. I had built up enough of a stack in the prior hands to have still survived if he had won with his AA or KK that I had assumed that he would have had So that might be a winning strategy long term, but surely it can't be much fun? |
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| I have seen this quite a few times. And I've seen those players shove every PP as well as AK/AQ, doesn't matter if it's suited. They are just looking for the pot to be too bloated compared to blinds and stacks for people to be able to call(I'm guessing that your call was probably bad mathematically). At the same time, I've seen people playing SnG's where they don't play a single hand. They are looking to eke into 3rd place by everyone else being aggressive and taking each other out and not realizing that they haven't played a hand. Sounds boring as hell to me, but to each his own. |
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| Read Colin Moshmans book for SNGs... Yes shoving strategy with top ten percent, taking into account chip values and stack sizes, is at the core of most SNG strategy. Often a big raise is used PF with threat of shove on flop. No, it is not a lot of fun, is rather formulaic. Can be profitable if you like formulas... That being said, shoving UTG with 9s is not recommended, nor is calling a shove with AQ, unless u r low M. |
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| re: 9 player sit and go strategy poker Did you really think he'd open-shove with AA/KK on a stack deeper than 20bb? For sure take a look at some SNG strategy articles. It's often the players who folding alot in early levels who are actually the winning players in the longrun. Most newer players play wayyyy too many hands, playing each hand like they're in a cashgame & failing to take game theory into consideration (not looking at 'the big picture' of the 9plyr. sng format game)... often building up stacks early but then just as often making tons of mistakes & spewing off chips in lots of hands where they'd be far better off folding pre. Winning > fun |
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| Like others have said a TAG style, particularly at the lower levels can be a very profitable strategy. There are some poor players around and it's a +EV strategy to let these bust themselves out (or bust others out by getting lucky) and letting the carnage die down before opening up yourself. by then you can be down to 6 handed, you've built up a very solid table image and can start to get respect for your blind steals when the blinds are actually worth stealing. Not sure I like the strategy in the example used of shoving everything - this is an all or nothing approach which isn't a lot of fun nor +EV in my view. My own particular 'record' is folding the first 30 hands. And I won it! Can anyone beat that? |
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| Yeah, SnG's are fun, the strategy is kinda hard to master but anything takes time. Just make sure you're not too tight... I've gone bust before after folding every hand and then getting no respect when I eventually shoved my AKs. On the micros players are often not even paying attention about tendencies, showdowns etc so there won't be much meta game going on with them. Stick with them and try not to play too many at one time. I know it's boring playing one at a time but until you're confident you can beat the limit there's no point multitabling hope this helps |
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Whether your villain's "boring" strategy was actually a winning one we don't have enough information to tell. Folding the majority of hands at the start of the game is certainly consistent with the standard SnG strategy though and 24 hands isn't that long a period of time - it's certainly possible it was correct for villain to fold them all depending on the cards they were getting. Depending on what stack your villain had in relation to the size of the blinds when they finally got a playable hand it's also possible that open shoving was the right move. How about posting the actual hand history so we can see blinds / position / stack sizes / etc? |
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Hand33.. what are the blinds, other stacks, position, etc. Not possible to give a response without knowing. |
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| Can I just say that generally some of the comments made here give most players at the lower levels more credit for their ability than they deserve - a lot of the players at lower levels will not be looking at anything other than the board and how it effects their cards only. U could have a situation where the board reads 10c10s10h3s and if they have two spades in their hand they will call to hit a flush. As for strategy, I do think there are both ends of the scale in SNG`s - the people who sit and wait and the people who open push early in the hope they suck out - then they settle. Just my bit |
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| re: 9 player sit and go strategy poker I think they do that, not because they are necessarily overestimating player skills at this level, but more because they don't want me to fall into bad habits whilst playing microstakes which will be badly punished when I move up to a higher buy-in, once my bankroll has grown sufficiently. |
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