Sit And Go Strategy – Part 1

Online poker is booming and many players joining the poker tables online are getting weaker by the day. Poker tournaments are played around the clock online as well as sit and go’s. Sit and Go’s are the next big thing to hit online poker and it is a guaranteed way to make some money. What a sit and go basically is, is a online poker tournament consisting of 9 players. The top 3 player’s make it to the money. The break down for winning the sit n go is as follows:

3rd place = 20% of the total prize pool

2nd place = 30% of the total prize pool

1st place = 50% of the total prize pool

As you can see, 1st place is nearly triple of 3rd place so when you play sit and go’s a common mistake most players make is just trying to make it in the money. Almost every poker tournament you will be in and there is 4 players’s remaining (1 shy of the money), everyone will start playing extremely TIGHT. This is where you need to take advantage of these player’s and start playing AGGRESSIVE. Take down their blinds and make them pay for playing tight. Many ebook poker books will not share with you this strategy, but I definitely am. I have made hundred’s of thousands of dollars since 2001 playing sit and go’s online. Poker sit n go’s are played around the clock online, and you will always be able to find a game. Once you master single table sit and go’s it will be time for you to start multi-tabling them. Multi-tablling sit and go’s are playing more than one sit and go at a time. I HIGHLY recommend not starting multi-tabling poker tournament sit and go’s until you start to win them frequently by playing 1 at a time and making a profit. Once you master single table sit n go’s then I advise you to play multi-table.

Full tilt poker or Pokerstars definitely has the best interface and graphics for multi-tabling sit and go’s. When you deposit in fulltilt poker or Poker stars they equally match whatever you deposit. That’s right; they give you a 100% deposit bonus. Take advantage of this bonus especially to build your bankroll. Playing sit and go’s online will definitely give you lots of poker practice for cheap. You can deposit 50 bucks and get 100% deposit bonus which will give you 100 bucks. If you play 2 dollar sit n go’s, not only will you get lots of practice but you can make some serious cash if you learn poker and the proper sit n go strategy. There are many weak players’ out there waiting for you to take their money. The faster you get up to speed on winning sit and go’s, the faster you will be earning a stable income. Sit n go’s have let me quit my day job, all I do now is multi-table sit and go’s all day. It beats working 9-5.

How to play tournament poker

Tournament poker is different from regular poker. Say it with me, “Tournament poker is different from regular poker.”

I have played a good bit of tournament poker – mostly online, twice making the final two tables of the biggest regular online tournament, the Poker Stars Sunday Million. You may have even seen me on television – I was skilled and lucky enough to win a round on Fox Sports’s Poker Dome Challenge.

In other words, though I have yet to take home a World Series of Poker bracelet, I know a thing or two about tournament poker.

To play winning tournament poker, get your hands on two books – Kill Phil, by Blair Rodman and Lee Nelson, and The Poker Tournament Formula, by Arnold Snyder. These books focus on strategies for playing fast-paced no limit Texas Hold ‘em tournaments – and they will teach you that tournament poker is different from regular poker.

Tournament poker is a kill-or-be-killed reality that exists on an ever-changing landscape, so the key to using these books’ excellent advice is to learn from them and evolve your own style.

If I were starting out playing tournaments today, I would:

*Read books,

*Observe live tournaments,

*Play tournaments as a serious hobby,

*Never go pro (it is just too hard to make a living),

*Develop my own, unpredictable style of play.

Only the best of the best and the extremely lucky make an elite living in poker tournaments. Even some of the star poker players spend much of their time broke. Poker tournaments are quite fun, but my advice is only play them in your leisure time – and for the fun of the experience.

I hope to see you on the felt!