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If you’re not currently tracking your win rate in tournament Sit and Go events, you should start. Today. Seriously, if you’re here reading our Sit n Go strategy articles and you’re looking to earn a decent long-term profit you have to track your win/loss rate somehow. Whether it’s a cool looking chart, a program such as Poker Office, or just a simple spreadsheet, you must track this important metric. The benefit to knowing “where you are” in terms of total winnings and cash out percentages will become a major part of your overall strategy. Even if you’re a casual player  [ Read More ]

Yet another strategy that you will need to grasp and effectively implement if you want to want to cash in Sit and Go tournaments is the continuation bet. Put simply, this is the act of making a bet after you were the orignal raiser pre-flop even if you actually miss the flop. Here’s an example: The hero is playing at Cake Poker and gets dealt Ad Kd and with the blinds at 10/20, makes a standard 5X raise to 100. The hero is called by the villain in the BB (Big Blind) and the flop comes all rags – 5h  [ Read More ]

In some of the turbo sit and go tournaments that you play you’re going to get burned in a hand in the early stages and you’re going to be the short stack at the table. Now if you’re playing at Poker Stars everyone starts with 1500 chips, so I consider myself to be short stacked when I’m around 800 chips. Once you get to 800 chips or less you need to start sitting and not playing any cards until you get an all-in hand. The short stack isn’t where you want to be early in a tournament, but the good  [ Read More ]

Pocket pairs are dealt to a player approximately once every eighteen hands in Texas Holdem, but when you do get them you need to know how to play them to maximize their value. Not all pocket pairs are great and some of them will usually cost you money rather then making you money. You need to play certain pocket pairs differently then other pocket pairs and we’ll look at which approach you should take for each one. You’re usually going to be a favorite when you have a pocket pair, but there is a potential for being behind in the  [ Read More ]

HORSE Poker has become a lot more popular over the past couple years and lately there have been more televised HORSE events such as the $50K buy in event at the WSOP. The best poker players in the world have trouble mastering this poker game so it’s not the poker game for any beginner. There are five different variations of poker played in HORSE poker and you’ll need to know how to play all of them before heading to the HORSE table at a site like Full Tilt Poker (one of the few sites spreading this game, believe it or  [ Read More ]