There is an interesting dynamic in Sit down and go Tournaments that takes place to me approximately one out every 5 times I spot in the money. The scenario occurs when I am the chip chief and can take any of the other three remaining players out of the tournament in any given hand. In reality, I have them all covered and there is very maybe a small stack facing elimination on the bubble with no money. When this occurs, there may be a method I engage that solidifies me as the odds on favorite to win first place.
Let me offer you a scenario for instance. I am at a 9 seated, ten dollars plus $1 sit down and go on Full Tilt Poker – my favorite new site. All gamblers began with 1,500 chips and there are four gamblers left. I take place to be the chip leader with six thousand eight hundred and fifty even though a short stack who has just 525 chips is to my immediate left. The other 2 players are both around three thousand one hundred in chips and have tightened up for an expected in-the-money finish. The blinds are 100/200 and I’m the tiny blind even though the brief stack awaits my next move as one other two players folded and I am holding Ace, nines.
Certainly I’m the favored here, and under normal conditions would put the brief stack to an all in decision. Rather – I fold and hand over my tiny blind to the quick stack who now sits at a fairly relieved six hundred and twenty five chips. Why would I do that, you might ask? Having the other two tight gamblers, set on making the money is an advantage to a big stack in this circumstances, because having that fourth gambler still alive means that I can still threaten them with bubble play. Meaning, I can take much more blinds, out of position when the 2 tight gamblers are the smaller blind and big blind.
With a beneficial chip lead like this one, and many tight players, I need to extract as a lot of blinds as I can because I want my dominant place even stronger as the session alterations into heads up play. This is in thinking with the very first or 3rd philosophy, where I know I’m going to generate the money, except I would like to be ruthless shorter handed most of the time, so that I have more than my fair share of first location payoffs. Let’s say in the above scenario that 1 of the other gamblers collects all the chips instead of me. We receive heads up and guess what? We are virtually even in chip count. Then it might be anybody’s game. Yes, I usually do even now have an benefit, except I seriously want the kind of advantage exactly where I’m also a 4 to one or even five to one chip chief! This will virtually remove the likelihood of my challenger succeeding the tournament by drawing out. And we all understand how typically that happens heads up. I’ve a video of this exact system in my free of cost sit down and go poker video series.
Maintain this chance in mind as you obtain into a cash position. Don’t begin betting like you will be just happy to make the cash, play like that you are pleased to take the cash!