SNG versus regular table
I know this is a fairly broad situation/question - but this is what is happening. I am finding myself liking the SNG games a lot more then playing at just a regular table. I find myself playing the regular tables just to build my roll back up to where I can go and play SNG's. However over time after playing in SNG's I am only finishing in the $ around 40% of the time. Therefore never really getting ahead. However whenever I go back to regular tables I always seem to be able to build up my account to go back to SNG's.
Any ideas? Does your style have to change in a SNG?
Cheers,
Goms
Any ideas? Does your style have to change in a SNG?
Cheers,
Goms
Comments
Agression is the better part of valour in SnG's. In a ring game you hang around forever waiting for good hands. In the SnG the blinds (when they get to 100-200) force you to play more agressively with marginal (ring game) holdings.
To get a good idea of SnG play, watch some of Frozen's hand histories in the party re-player. Basically, he sits around for the 1st 4 levels and only plays premium cards. Then he flips a switch and turns into a blind stealing machine (against the overtight players)...
Hand histories
If you'd like more situational help, do you notice a trend that finds you busting out of the SnG? Blinding off? Busting early? Busting on the bubble? Busting in 3rd all the time? Those are the most common issues people run into with SnG's..
I only play REAL low stakes
.10-.25 ring games and $5.00 sng . . and i find i have great success in SNG's and break even at best in ring games . . . .even though I have read lee jones book
I definitely follow the strategy mentioned above . . . . tight for the first few blinds then when 4 are left at the table . . . . I turn it loose ( in my humble rookie way)
i can empathize, but i might have a different reason than you. im consistently up on the micro-levels, but once i get a bit higher it gets nerve-wracking.
sometimes i think of it this way: the problem (for me anyway, a poor student) is that for ring games whenever youre not winning youre losing money. in sngs you get a lot more 'bang for your buck', and you always feel like youve got a shot to come back and money
anyway, thats how it is for me
This is good advice. Also, good advice in multi-table tournaments where there is a rythym. Where the average stack is large compared to blinds... avoid risk. When it is small, fire all broadsides. In long tournaments it tends to shrink and expand and shrink and expand. So there will be multiple fasts and slows.