Advanced sit and go strategy part two

By playing aggressively in poker you should be looking to player the top 20 hands available within poker, with the top 10 of those hands warrenting an oversized bet.

Another option for you would be that playing suited connectors would come into play.
This is not advised in the early stages due to the possibility of weaker, less experience players been within the opponents, players who are looking to make their jack / seven off suit into the winning hand.

A great tip to remember is that when you play poker as an aggressive player, you are to become the better into the pot, not the caller.

Getting yourself into that situation gives you double the chances of winning the hand as you have not only got the showdown, once all of the community cards have been dealt but you also have the possibility that your opponent or opponents will fold before it gets to that stage.

Making a bet into a pot pre flop is not enough to warrent playing aggressively, regardless of if it is to be a real play or a bluff.
A called bet pre flop should be immediately followed up with a continuation bet once the flop has been revealed.

The idea of this is that your are trying to depict that your starter hand had strength and that the flop has either enhanced the hands strength or is stronger than anything possible from the flop.

Failing to place a continuation bet after making a raise pre flop shows weakness within your hand, opening you up to a bet from an opponent that will leave you as the caller in the game, therefore reducing your opportunities to win the hand.

Ok time to recap what Poker Rakeback Online has laid out for you over the last section of the article.

The middle sector or stage of a tournament refers to the part of the tournament that takes part following the inital four blind increasements.

Within this time, you are likely to see that the table looses at least one player who has entered into the tournament with the wrong sit and go poker strategy, costing them their entrance fee, but hey what do you care?
Its added to your winnings!

In the later stages of a sit and go tournament is time for you to flip your player style from the first stage, which was playing as a tight player to playing aggressively within the middle section of the game.

The final point that was outlined in the last part of the article is that bluffing large pots, when you feel that you have information that your opponent has a weak hand, has to come into play.
This means that you will have the opportunity to take down larger pots so that you can build a chip stack for the later rounds of the sit and go tournament.

Remember that the huge tip for all players who are reading this poker strategy article is that to be the aggressive player that players fear, you have to be the better into the pot, not the caller.

Ok so thats the early and the middle sectors of a sit and go tournament strategy covered its time to bring home the winnings in the later stages.

I refer to the later stages as the games that follow the seventh blind increase.

The reason that i can this the later stages is because by this point the only players who are left within the sit and go tournament are the players who have either read this article just like you are at the moment or they have already tried to master the art of playing these types of sit and go tournaments.

Ok well now that the number of players at the table is beginning to decrease its time for you to change your style of play again, this time gearing up for you to play for the win and the prize money.

By the later stages of the tournament, blinds are now beginning to make a huge difference on the chip stacks of all players other than the leaders of the chip count.
Players who are short stacked are now going to have to make some desperate moves in a bid to solidify their place within the sit and go poker tournament.

Although the sit and go players who are short stacked at the table having to make desperate moves in a bid to gain enough chips to see them into the paid positions, playing aggressively within this stage has just become a whole lot more important!

Forcing poker players who are looking to scrape into the paid places in the tournament into an all in situation will mean that they have to seriously consider their need to remain in the tournament.

As the blinds fall on to them they will be thinking about the possibility of the chip leader taking out the other remaining poker players if they just let their blind go, looking down at their seven / two off suit.

In that situation, only a player that is going to be placed all in by the small blind would be winning to place their tournament life on the line with what is seen as the worst hand in poker.

Your aim in this situation is that you are going to force the weaker players into surrendering their large blinds in a desperate plea to get into the paid positions of the tournament.

With the later stages of a tournament providing only the better players who entered the sit and go the opportunity to win the prize money, you have to now think what can you do to make your poker playing better than that of the remaining opponents?

I’m sure that i could ask this to a room of players, getting a very blank look on their faces looking right back at me….

So let me tell you, the key to making your playing different from all the other players still seated at the table is to mix your play up.

By mixing your play, you are throwing the information that the players have gathered on you over the previous sections of the game out of the window, leaving them feeling like they are going to have to re-analyse all of your calls and moves all over again.

Believe me when i say this, seeing a place break their trend is one of the hardest things that a poker player has to understand. Right when you think that you have someone in your pocket they throw out an unexpected raise, leaving you checking that pocket over and over again, questioning how they have escaped your grasp.

I was recently playing in a $100 buy in sit and go and thought that i had my final two opponents firmly within my grasp, believing that all i had to do was wait for them to make their somewhat predictable moves and then i could place my counter attack on then, taking their chips.

Suddenly out of no where the lowest chip stack player opens the betting pre flop with a bet that was two times the big blind, looking at his chip stack i thought that he was possibly holding a low pocket pair.

With a pair of jacks in the pocket i make a re-raise only to see that he throws his remaining chips into the pot.

Knowing that all game i have had this guy nailed to the ground, i make my call happily thinking that I’m entering into the flop as a favourite to win the pot, leaving me heads up with my rival that i have been battling out for the chip leader position with all game.

As the cards are revealed i was amazed to see that the short stack at the table had just played me a fool, making a small sized bet into the potpre flop with a hand of pocket aces.

Watching as my time ran out within the hand, seeing cards pass me by, been placed onto the board i get the sick feeling that this time, his style and change of aggression has finally beat me.

The river hits the board…. Ace.

Man that hurt!

Ok time to get my head back together, taking the position of short stack within the tournament for the first time in the whole tournament.

With the players switching their styles from bluffs to serious over sized bets, I’m not ashamed to admit that i was out played within the later stages, misreading bets and folding hands that usually i would have taken further.

Time runs out for me, seeing me exit the game in 3rd place.

It just goes to show that the minute that you begin to switch your play, your opening yourself up to a totally new card game, with the better performing players of the earlier stages becoming the target of a painful overturn.