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Limit S&G's
I suppose this wont spawn too many replies, but I hope somebody can share their experience.
Normally I play low limit ring games, but after a winning session I often like to spend some of my newly accumulated monies in a $6 limit holdem S&G for fun. Except now the fun factor is decreasing. Fun is winning, at least occasionally, and I keep losing (Of four attempts my results are 4th, 5th, 8th and 4th). Pathetic because I know that I'm better than probably 70% of my opponents in a ring game, so therefore I ought to be the same at a S&G. Maybe I need to change my strategy or I'll just quit limit S&G's altogether. The problem seems to be that the table plays tighter than what you'd normally get in a ring game, and with the increasing blinds we end up with 7 or 8 players left with the max chip stack about 4 times the big blind. In other words it becomes a bit of a lottery. Have others found this to be common in limit S&G's? And what strategies should one use in these games? Unless somebody can recommend something good I'm just going to stop playing them. |
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Tournament strategy
There is an excellent series of articles about the important differences between ring and tournament strategy on Steve Badger's website. Can't remember the url but a search should find him. I think it is something like playwinningpoker.com
I found it originally via a Google search for 'holdem tournament strategy.' However your opponents play there is always a way to adapt and maximise your chances. |
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Forget limit sngs, NL sngs are where the money is at. SNGs (particuarly at party poker) aren't really about playing traditional hold'em (postflop). It's all about preflop. If you get a few key concepts down and apply them effectively, profiting off the lower buyins is extremely easy. I used to SNG quite a bit (700 at the $33s with 10% ROI, 1200 at the $22s with 29% ROI, 250 at the $55s with 17% ROI). This was mostly 6tabling.
Now I play O8 3/6 and HU sngs (I like them). At my current O8 skill level I'd make more off sngs ($80+ US an hour), but I just don't enjoy them anymore. Cash games are a nice change of pace. That said, sngs can be VERY profitable and there is a wealth of info out there about how to beat them. Try 2+2 forums. |
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What do you mean by 08 skill level and what is 2+2 forums?
Thanks for the post. Very informative. |
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o8 skill level means skill level at omaha 8 (type of poker).
2+2 is a website like this but dedicated to poker, plenty of pros there. |
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