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06-16-2016 , 02:52 AM
Hi everyone!

I've been playing a fair bit of Sit-N-Go tournaments recently. I found that right now I make the most profit out of those. MTTs are much more difficult for me and less likely to make money from. Cash Games also have lots of ups and downs for me, but with Sit-N-Gos I find that I've been getting a decent ROI, making the money most of the time barring some bad beat, and winning here and there.

So far my strategy has been to play very tight before making the money, basically surviving (and obviously taking chances with big to premium hands) and then trying to win once I made the money (usually last 3 players).

One thing that has been real tough on me, and has been happening a lot, is when I get to heads-up against an opponent in a game with lots of tighter players that has taken a while, and the blinds have gone up so much that neither of us is holding much more than 10-15Bb. In spots like this, I find that either I get lucky and get a few good hands in a row and hopefully get called by worse and win, or I get a string a bad hands, which I'm priced into calling and lose. With such a structure, it seems to me like the element of luck basically starts playing a bigger role ie when both players are basically priced in to call with anything, it boils down to who gets better hands.

What is your strategy in spots where the Blinds alone take a big chunk of your stack? Obviously I can't fold much, but what should I do with a trash hand from the button? Limp? I basically never do heads-up. If the blinds are low I'm basically guaranteed to raise the button, and I may occasionally fold the very bottom of my range if the blinds are low, but never limp, so should I maybe implement limping into my heads-up strategy? Any advice would be appreciated.
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06-16-2016 , 02:58 AM
When you get HU in an STT it's basically just going all in a lot
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06-16-2016 , 06:16 PM
If you google poker and the Nash equilibrium that should give you solid guidance for hands played HU in a x-max sng.
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06-18-2016 , 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by maverickf1
If you google poker and the Nash equilibrium that should give you solid guidance for hands played HU in a x-max sng.
Thanks very much!
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