Sit-N-Go's

IF your a tight player and got a good hand to take the chip lead in just the first round. Lets say your chip stack is double everybody else. Do you stay tight for a round maybe two or do you get aggressive?

No. Not necessarily... 'it depends'

I remain fairly tight early on, even if I've been been so lucky as to double or triple up. I may be a bit more inclined to speculate (e.g. call a pre-flop raise with a low pocket pair or a suited connector when the implied odds are marginal, and which with a normal stack size I might throw away), but nothing too loose.

During low blind play, it's more important to preserve my chips and my table image than to personally try and take out everyone. As chip leader, you have more to lose by losing chips than you do to gain by gaining more chips (as the way tournament equity works is that the more chips you have, the less valuable each individual chip is). Each time you eliminate a player, you do your remaining opponents a greater favor than you do yourself, as you increase their tournament equity by a greater amount than you do your own. So there's just no need to donk around in the early stages, even if you can afford to do it. Then bubble time comes around, and so does the inner chip bully.

sywtwaf thanks for the info. Got to go to work now. At least its friday.

These days I only play KO SnGs and I have found that being super tight early (even until blinds are 100/200) will help you make it to the money. Others want to double up and knock each other out and will do so with very weak hands. If I double up early so be it, my strategy stays the same.

Note: I play NLO8

It can depend on various factors and how much weight you put on each of them. As noted, the value of each additional chip gained is less than each chip lost. This is because at the end, having all the chips doesn't mean you get all the money, whereas being reduced to 0 chips any time before making the payouts does mean you get $0. Thus playing on the tight side early generally tends to produce better results than playing loose.

This is, however, a generalization, not a commandment. Playing too nitty isn't a winning strategy because in most games, the deck won't hit you hard enough, and also because opponents who are aware of your play will become less likely to pay you off when you do get big hands. So it's important to balance trying to get reasonable value when you're in advantageous situations while not trying to push too hard with small edges.

I generally still play my game usual game for the first couple levels but I like to take more cheap flops from late if there are limpers. I think its also a good idea to rely on fold equity a little but more. If you have a marginal hand or a draw its usually worth it to make a large bet or raise to force the opponent to a decision for all his chips. Unless they have a real good hand they generally arent going to call you if its still early. Worst case scenario though, they call and you still have a decent chance to win, but if you miss you are still at the chips average. If you win though you get a monstrous stack to bully with.

Well in the first levels just be tight.

Generally there's no reason to change your game plan - hanging onto the chips you've won is more important than risking a big chunk of them for a payoff that may not even be that big.

That doesn't mean you need to become a super nit and start open folding JJ or anything either though. Just stay solid and don't take silly risks just because you can "afford to lose".

Of course, there's always a million factors. But, in early stages i let the donkeys kill each other unless i pick up a monster, Then in middle i loosen up, and then in heads up/late stages i dominate. Tha's how u do it. Little variance, a beaut.