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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 ]

As a regular player in the low-limit Turbo Sit and Go games at Full Tilt, I often see players making standard raises and getting 3-4 callers. Is this a symptom of the accelerated environment or simply bad players that don’t respect standard 3X-4X raises? The short answer is no, or yes depending on who you ask or when you play in one of these games. The full answer, like most answers to poker strategy questions, depends on many factors and without a crystal ball it’s almost impossible to discuss every situation that you may see at one of these tables.  [ Read More ]

In Texas Holdem a large part of the game is strategy and you need to know as much about the game as possible. If you know the odds of your chances of winning each hand then you’ll do a lot better then someone who has no idea about odds. Now it takes a lot of time to be able to know the odds to every hand, but it’s also important that you get a general idea about Holdem strategy before playing. We’re going to look at the ten best starting hands in poker throughout this article. The reason you’d want  [ Read More ]