There is certainly an interesting powerful in Sit down and go Tournaments that happens to me approximately one out every single five times I place in the cash. The situation occurs when I’m the chip leader and can take any of the other 3 outstanding players out of the tournament in any given hand. In reality, I have them all covered and there is fairly probably a quick stack facing eradication on the bubble with no money. When this happens, there’s a system I engage that confirms me as the odds on favorite to succeed very first place.
Let me offer you a situation for instance. I’m at a nine seated, ten dollars plus $1 sit down and go on Full Tilt Poker – my favourite new site. All players began 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 quick stack who has just five hundred and twenty five chips is to my immediate left. One other two players are both around 3100 in chips and have tightened up for an anticipated in-the-money finish. The blinds are 100/200 and I’m the small blind even though the shorter stack awaits my next move as the other 2 gamblers folded and I’m holding Ace, nines.
Surely I am the preferred here, and under regular circumstances would put the short stack to an all in decision. Rather – I fold and hand over my small blind to the shorter stack who now sits at a somewhat relieved 625 chips. Why would I do that, you may ask? Having the other 2 tight gamblers, set on making the money is an advantage to a major stack in this circumstances, because having that 4th gambler nevertheless alive means that I can nevertheless threaten them with bubble play. Meaning, I can take extra blinds, out of place when the 2 tight players are the tiny blind and large blind.
With a beneficial chip lead like this one, and several tight gamblers, I need to extract as numerous blinds as I can because I want my dominant placement even stronger as the session changes into heads up play. This is in thinking with the initially or third philosophy, in which I know I am going to make the cash, but I would like to be ruthless brief handed most of the time, so that I receive far more than my fair share of first site payoffs. Let’s say in the above predicament that one of the other players collects all of the chips as opposed to me. We obtain heads up and guess what? We are nearly even in chip count. Then it may well be anybody’s game. Yes, I normally do nonetheless have an advantage, except I genuinely want the kind of advantage exactly where I’m also a four to one or even five to 1 chip chief! This will practically eliminate the chance of my challenger succeeding the tournament by drawing out. And we all know how frequently that occurs heads up. I have a video of this exact technique in my free sit and go poker video series.
Keep this opportunity in mind as you obtain into a money position. Don’t start playing like you might be just pleased to make the money, play like you might be content to take the money!
