9 handed sit n goes

Hey all. Can anyone give me advice on 9 handed sit n goes. I've been trying to find a basic gameplan for it. I've done quite poorly at them so I need some help. Any advice would be appericated oh and i'm looking to play 5$ sit n goes

Buy Collin Moshman's SNG strategy book. Make sure your well rolled for them. And join this thread and post hands and ask questions.

https://www.cardschat.com/forum/learning-poker-57/january-sng-thread-167606/

This is a big question, maybe too much to be answered in one post.

As a general guideline I suggest the following points:

1. We play to win, so we aim at the first place!
2. In the early stage, play very tight. I play only TT+ and AQ+ and fold many of these to 3/4bets. Additionally I call with small PP, but play them very passive postflop unless I hit a set.
3. I become a little bit looser as the blinds get higher. I stop calling with small PP but try to steal he blinds more often.
4. If I end up having less than 12or13 BB, the only option is the all-inn move. I don't see any reason to rise the standard 3-4BB as it commits you almost anyway. So the only decision is whether to push or fold.I think you can find many articles on the internet that cover those pushing-ranges

1) My strategy is to play to place, then play for 1st.
2) In the early stages, you play tight. Don't call PF raises with marginal or speculative hands. If you enter a pot with a marginal or speculative hand, then limp and fold to any raise (unless pot odds are too great to fold). Approach with caution post flop to any aggressive raises to your bets. Avoid trying to exploit positional advantages in regular blind stealing spots in early stages, it's simply not worth it for the minimal gain.
3) In the middle stages, open up your starting hand RAISING range. Generally speaking, you should open the pot with a raise against the blinds. You should also re-raise a raise if you opt to enter the pot. This is largely read dependent, and should be done against 1 opponent (2 at the most). You don't want to make more advanced plays against multiple opponents, the payoff is never good enough for the risk.
4) In the late stages, get it all in when you think you have the best of it.

play ur postion and time when its folded around to u come in with a raise also try not to tuirn into call machine lead out with bets

poker_stu said:

This is a big question, maybe too much to be answered in one post.

As a general guideline I suggest the following points:

1. We play to win, so we aim at the first place!
2. In the early stage, play very tight. I play only TT+ and AQ+ and fold many of these to 3/4bets. Additionally I call with small PP, but play them very passive postflop unless I hit a set.
3. I become a little bit looser as the blinds get higher. I stop calling with small PP but try to steal he blinds more often.
4. If I end up having less than 12or13 BB, the only option is the all-inn move. I don't see any reason to rise the standard 3-4BB as it commits you almost anyway. So the only decision is whether to push or fold.I think you can find many articles on the internet that cover those pushing-ranges

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this ^.... good post imo.

Basically in a SNG (STT) you want to maintain a decent stack and one of the more common errors you will see from newer players is that they get involved in WAY too many pots (ie. they might win a pot in the beginning & then they keep playing a bunch of pots, thinking that winning hands = winning the game... this is not the case & you'll often see these same players spew off their stacks). You want to maintain a decent stack so that you will have fold equity when the blinds go up and the game becomes basically a shove/fold game (preflop). To become a consistent winner in SNG's it is key to have a solid shove/fold game.
Another common error you'll see from newer players is that they sit & wait for a monster hand with high blinds. You absolutely cannot let yourself get blinded down!!! (on a reg. table, 8-12bb's and you should be open-shoving.... on a turbo table you'll often see stacks much shallower than this as the blinds will often hit the 200/400 pt. during bubble play). You need to become accustomed/aquainted with proper (+EV) shoving ranges and 'know' that the regs. will tend to be shoving light (unless they know they're shoving into a random... then they might tighten up a bit). Your calling ranges need to stay tight on the bubble (except for in cases when the blinds are so high that you'll often be priced in to make the call... & then depending on player reads you might have to call down a bit lighter than you might prefer.... esp. if you have a reg. who's shoving into you frequently... as they will 'generally' be shoving wider than a random... whereas the random will often be making the mistake of calling down too light and shoving too tight).
Hope some of this made sense to ya???
There are many decent articles online for learning how to play SNG's. They are definitely beatable but for sure need to be played much different than your typical ring game (a mistake you'll see alot of players making).

As mentioned above, Collin Moshmann's book SNG Strategy is well worth buying. It'll pay for itself in your first session imo.

Snowmobiler taught me that these games are really the first ones you need to master. It closely mimics the final table of a MTT and you need the skills you learn at the 9 man to do well at the final table.

IMO the previous posts are right on track. Play tight in the beginning, loosen up, then when there are only six or so left do some stak building, playing your stak rather than your cards (to some extent).

Most important for doing well late is to PAY ATTENTION TO THE OTHER PLAYERS! See who is playing too much, check to see who is playing multi tables (give them more respect) and keep good notes. Watch the other guys M (blinds+ante/stak) and see who is just playing not to lose (in desperation) and take advantage of them.

I challenged myself to play ten of the $3.40 9 man sit-n-goes at PS to try to learn a good strategy. I'm down 50 cents after six games but I am learning a LOT and even though I am disapointed that I haven't done better, it has been fun learning.

GL

strategy

get into good situations and look to capitalise on them building your stack, try and steal some blinds when they get higher towards the end, and again the bubble look to be more aggressive on the bubble because players tighten up and easy chips are available.
adsthepro

1 supertight early, you can limp in with any pair to setmine or limp AQ, riase or reriaseQQ+ and AK

2 middle stages open up slightly and try to accumulate a few more chips, but still generally fairly tight trying to maintain your stack of chips for fold equity in late stages..

3. as the blinds get high 150/300 with an ante....
shove/fold, quit limping in.. and if you raise generally you want to be able to go with the hand, you dont want to be raise/folding very often..

4. make your decisions of your stack size, and the stack size of villains to act after you..

5. abuse the bubble situtation, people are generally much tighter on the bubble so take advantage..

much more but im drunk, so hope it helps and doesnt hinder..