There is certainly an interesting dynamic in Sit down and go Tournaments that occurs to me approximately one out every five times I site in the cash. The situation occurs when I’m the chip chief and can take any of the other 3 outstanding gamblers out of the tournament in any given hand. In reality, I have them all protected and there is really possibly a shorter stack facing elimination on the bubble with no money. When this happens, there’s a strategy I engage that solidifies me as the odds on favorite to succeed initial place.
Let me offer you a scenario for example. I’m at a 9 seated, 10 dollars plus 1 dollar sit down and go on Full Tilt Poker – my favourite new site. All players started with 1,500 chips and there are four gamblers left. I occur to be the chip chief with six thousand eight hundred and fifty though a short stack who has just five hundred and twenty five chips would be to my immediate left. One other 2 gamblers are both around 3100 in chips and have stiffened up for an anticipated in-the-money finish. The blinds are 100/200 and I am the small blind although the small stack awaits my next move as the opposite 2 gamblers folded and I am holding A9s.
Certainly I’m the preferred here, and under normal conditions would put the shorter stack to an all in decision. As an alternative – I fold and hand over my tiny blind to the short stack who now sits at a somewhat relieved six hundred and twenty five chips. Why would I do that, you may perhaps ask? Having the opposite 2 tight gamblers, set on making the cash is an benefit to a major stack in this situation, because having that fourth gambler even now alive means that I can nevertheless threaten them with bubble play. Meaning, I can take far more blinds, out of place when the two tight players are the modest blind and major blind.
With a good chip lead like this one, and numerous tight gamblers, I want to extract as several blinds as I can because I want my superior place even stronger as the session changes into heads up play. This is in thinking with the first or third philosophy, in which I know I’m going to generate the money, but I want to be ruthless shorter handed most of the time, so that I acquire far more than my fair share of initial site payoffs. Let us say in the above predicament that 1 of the other gamblers gathers all of the chips as opposed to me. We receive heads up and guess what? We are virtually even in chip count. Then it may possibly be anybody’s game. Yes, I usually do nonetheless have an benefit, except I really want the kind of advantage wherever I am also a four to 1 or even five to one chip leader! This will virtually get rid of the opportunity of my opponent succeeding the tournament by drawing out. And we all know how typically that takes place heads up. I’ve a video of this exact technique in my free of cost sit down and go poker video series.
Keep this chance in mind as you acquire into a cash position. Do not begin playing like that you are just happy to generate the cash, bet on like you might be pleased to take the cash!