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There’s an interesting dynamic in Sit down and go Tournaments that takes place to me approximately one out every single five times I place in the money. The circumstance occurs when I am the chip leader and can take any of the other three remaining players out of the tournament in any given hand. In fact, I’ve them all covered and there is fairly probably a brief stack facing eradication on the bubble with no money. When this happens, there is a system I engage that solidifies me as the odds on favored to succeed initially place.

Let me give you a situation for example. I am at a nine seated, $10 plus $1 sit and go on Full Tilt Poker – my favourite new site. All gamblers began with one thousand five hundred chips and there are four players left. I occur to be the chip leader with six thousand eight hundred and fifty even though a brief stack who has just 525 chips is to my immediate left. Another 2 gamblers are each around three thousand one hundred in chips and have tightened up for an expected in-the-money finish. The blinds are one hundred / two hundred and I am the tiny blind although the brief stack awaits my next move as another 2 gamblers folded and I’m holding A9s.

Certainly I’m the favourite here, and under typical circumstances would put the shorter stack to an all in decision. Instead – 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 opposite two tight gamblers, set on making the cash is an advantage to a major stack in this circumstances, because having that fourth gambler nevertheless alive means that I can still threaten them with bubble play. Meaning, I can take a lot more blinds, out of position when the 2 tight players are the small blind and major blind.

With a great chip lead like this one, and various tight gamblers, I need to extract as many blinds as I can because I want my superior place even more powerful as the session alterations into heads up play. This is in thinking with the very first or third philosophy, in which I know I’m going to generate the money, but I need to be ruthless brief handed most of the time, so that I receive much more than my fair share of first site payoffs. Let’s say in the above scenario that one of the other gamblers gathers all the chips instead of me. We get heads up and guess what? We are nearly even in chip count. Then it may be anybody’s game. Yes, I normally do nonetheless have an benefit, but I genuinely want the type of advantage wherever I’m also a four to 1 or even 5 to 1 chip leader! This will virtually eliminate the opportunity of my challenger winning the tournament by drawing out. And we all understand how frequently that takes place heads up. I’ve a video of this exact system in my absolutely free sit and go poker video series.

Maintain this opportunity in mind as you acquire into a money position. Don’t begin playing like you are just pleased to make the cash, play like that you are happy to take the money!