Sit and go tournaments begin when enough players have filled the table. So in order to get into the short-handed portion of a sit and go, you have to be able to survive several eliminations. But once you’re there, the short-handed part of a sit and go (5 players or less) plays out much differently. That’s why you need to keep a couple of things in mind when you survive this far into a sit and go.
Push or Fold
The early blinds in sit and go’s allow players to see the flop quite often. However, once you get into the later stages, you’ll rarely be seeing the flop so your main options are either going to be push or fold. By going all-in, you’ll be able to take advantage of the limpers, and gain an advantage over everyone who is playing scared.
Now some players might think it’s a better idea to try and sneak into the money. But the problem with this is that there’s no guarantee you’ll sneak into anything due to the increasing blinds. Plus there’s a good chance you will be short-stacked by this point, and pushing is much more favorable than being blinded out. Stealing blinds and small pots is a must at this point!
When to Call
As mentioned before, it’s mainly push or fold in short-handed sit and go play. However, this all or nothing approach doesn’t always fly, and there will be situations when you need to call. Most of these situations arise when you are the big stack because you’re already in the driver’s seat at this point.
With the big stack, you have a lot more freedom than the other players left so you don’t need to blow a bunch of chips on one hand. If you’re in this fortunate position, only get involved in huge pots when you know you’re a favorite and are getting correct odds.
I would not listen to this at all. Its a set up folks. The more games the system creates, the more money the system makes. It will set you up to push all in and you will get suckedout…GUARENTEED. I have been for quite a while. It helps the game to finish quicker and cause more to get created quicker. The system cheats and will set you up. Why else would they be saying something like this. Listeners beware
Lots of times you’ll make it to the final table and find yourself with a chipstack of ten big blinds or less. It’s really not that big of a deal. Hopefully you’ve made some observations about the other players by now and have a pretty good idea who’s tight, who’s aggressive, who will defend their blinds, and what kind of hands they play. Use your postion to steal the blinds, and use your understanding of the other players tendancies to push them off the pot when you think they’re weak. Will you get busted? Yes, it will happen, there’s always that risk even if you shove with AA, but you will also outlast the other players and/or double up more times than not. As far as “the system setting you up” – go read Dan Harrington’s books on tournament play. If you’re shoving from early position with pocket 3’s, you’re asking to get busted. Timing and positon are key.
that is stupid and generalistic. There are whole books on sit and go strategy. you can’t distill it to 3 paragraphs.