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Carbon SNG Leaderboard offers $10,000

Posted By : CarbonPoker March 19th, 2010

sngleaderboard_sml Sit and go’s are already an extremely popular poker tournament format because they’re quick and lots of fun to play. But sit and go’s only become more fun when you throw a monthly leaderboard race into the mix that rewards a total of $10,000.

To get a piece of the $10,000 that’s awarded every month, all you have to do is place somewhere within the top 25 players on the SNG Leaderboard. The amount of money you earn will of course depend on where you finish in the top 25, but as long as you’re in one of these spots you will be getting paid.

The great thing is that the $10,000 isn’t the only money given out through the SNG Leaderboard since another $2,000 will be given away based on your streak bonus. If you’re able to string together several sit and go wins, your leaderboard prize money will be multiplied based on your best win streak of the month.

Obviously, not all SNG’s are going to be equal when deciding who lands in the top 25 so allow me to explain how the points system works. Every time you finish in the money in a sit and go, you will earn points towards the leaderboard. The higher your placing and the higher the buy-in of the tournament, the more points you’ll receive. For instance, a $20 + $2 SNG is going to award a lot more points than a $5 + $0.50 SNG considering the places are the same.

So the basic formula for figuring your SNG points is: √buy-in X your final placing bonus. To illustrate this formula at work, let’s say you finished first in a $10 + $1 sit and go (√100 X 12). Using this formula, you would earn 120 points on the SNG Leaderboard and be that much closer to grabbing a share of the $10,000. Simply put: you need to play in sit and go’s and place well to win major cash.

Choosing Sit and Go Limits

Posted By : CarbonPoker February 11th, 2010

carbon-poker-cards As a poker player, it’s important to choose the stakes you play every carefully – especially in sit and go’s. Failure to find the proper limits will either cut into your profit margins or leave you losing money against superior players. That being said, let’s take a quick look at how you can find the right stakes for the sit and go tournaments you play.

Expected Winnings

Expected winnings is as simple as it sounds: how often do you expect to win or place in the money? If you expect to finish in the money in nearly every sit and go you play, then you should move up a limit. If you only place in the money in 2 out of every 10 sit and go’s you play, then this is probably too high of a limit. A good goal to shoot for with expected winnings is to be paid in 4 out of every 10 SNG’s you play.

Payouts

In addition to looking at expected winnings, you also need to determine what your average payout will be. For instance, if you’re placing in the top three in 40% of the $5 + $0.50 sit and go’s you play, you would probably be winning between $60 and $70 for every 10 SNG’s. Since the total cost of ten sit and go’s would be $55, you would easily be beating the stakes you are playing. Make sure that your profit is exceeding the amount of money you’re paying in buy-ins before moving up.

Bankroll

Tournaments offer inconsistent results so it’s hard to predict when your next payout is coming. You get your average from a range of tourneys so even a player who cashes in 40% or more of their SNG’s will go for 10 tournaments without cashing. That’s why your bankroll needs to be big enough to allow for 50 or more buy-ins at the limit you’re playing. So for the $5 + $0.50 sit and go player, your bankroll needs to be at least $225.

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Short-handed Sit and Go Strategy

Posted By : CarbonPoker December 2nd, 2009

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.

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Sit & Go Strategy for the Beginning Stages

Posted By : CarbonPoker August 26th, 2009

Nobody likes buying into a poker tournament only to bust out a few minutes later. Yet this happens a lot in Sit & Go’s because players don’t know a whole lot of strategy for how to play the beginning stages of the tournament. That is why it’s so essential to have a plan for how you’ll navigate through the beginning parts of a Sit & Go.

The first thing you need to employ in your plan is that there is no rush to double up in the beginning. Many players think differently as they try to go all-in ASAP in an effort to take all of somebody’s chips. But you should never try to force an all-in call just for the sake of doubling up.

Instead, you should play conservative in the beginning so that you avoid all of the maniacs who have no regard for their tournament buy-in. If you happen to land A-A and somebody wants to go all-in pre-flop, then by all means put them to the test. But other than these kinds of situations, you should be wary of jumping into the heavy action too early.

Just remember, you’ve got a whole tournament to be aggressive so don’t get stuck trying to prove something in the early going.

Another thing to be mindful of in the beginning stages of a Sit & Go is playing your position right. This should go without saying since nearly every player knows the basics of playing early, middle, and late position.

But you should play even more conservatively in early position during a Sit & Go since your chip stack is finite. In other words, you can’t just add more to it once the stack starts dwindling like in a cash game. The best strategy for early position is scaling back your starting hand requirements so that you aren’t playing dominated hands like A-Q.

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Sit N Go Strategy

Posted By : CarbonPoker July 31st, 2009

Sit N Go’s are the perfect practice arena for final table play. Unlike ring games and live cash games, when a player is eliminated, there isn’t one waiting to fill the emptied seat. Adapting to an ever diminishing number of players is a skill that definitely needs to be mastered for the aspiring player.

When a player gets eliminated from the table, it effectively means two things for those still seated, the blinds will come around quicker, and your paying more for each hand. Think of it this way, if there are 4 players left and the blinds are at 50 /100, your paying approx 37 in blinds each hand, or 150 every 4 hands.

If a player is eliminated then your now playing 150 every 3 hands, or 50 a hand. As a result you are forced to gamble more to counter the ever increasing blinds.

Chip stack and blind size should influence your hand selection strategy and hence how loose your play is. So naturally as a table progresses, blinds climb higher and players get eliminated, it is going to become necessary to loosen up your playing style and gamble more. Further more when there are 9 players seated at a table, there is likely to be 2 rather good hands amongst them, either AK or high pockets ect, however as there are only 3-4 players left, the chance of someone having such a good hand is diminished greatly and hence you can play a lot more aggressive with mid range cards such as pocket 8’s

The final argument for the tighter earlier, looser later strategy is the pay out structure. Most Sit n Gos and final tables will pay out the largest percentage to the top 3. Hence you should aim for 3rd. Once you have made the money, it is a lot easier to gamble up for 1st. You’ve already turned a profit, so change from the tighter strategy and gamble to make more.

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Playing Suited Connectors in Sit and Go’s

Posted By : CarbonPoker July 27th, 2009

Most Sit and Go players realize that their stacks are limited, and the tournaments go quick so certain hands lose value in this situation. Suited connectors are definitely one type of hand which loses value in a Sit and Go tournament since their main value comes from giving you a straight that can take down a major pot. And in Sit and Go’s, smaller stacks mean smaller pots which means you can’t take down as big of pots with your straights.

However, you can still use suited connectors to your advantage in Sit and Go’s as long as you remember one thing: don’t place too much value on them. Instead, you need to look for opportunities where you can get in multi-person pots as cheaply as possible. And the best opportunities for doing this present themselves in the early parts of Sit and Go’s because the blinds are lower.

With the blinds being lower, there will be a lot more limpers which means this is the perfect chance for you to limp in with them in a multi-person pot. Of course you’ll want to wait until you’re at least in early-late position when limping since you don’t want to risk getting raised by someone else at the table.

Once the blinds raise into the higher levels, suited connectors aren’t nearly as valuable if you’ve got one of the bigger stacks. That’s because there will be fewer players still alive, and the blinds will be so high that you can’t risk calls and bets for an outside shot at a straight. Of course, if you’re one of the short stacks left in a Sit and Go then suited connectors can be valuable when trying to steal blinds and small pots from other players. Plus they’re also a solid hand to push with if you’ve got no other options than to push or fold.

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$10,000 Monthly SnG Leaderboard!

Posted By : CarbonPoker November 18th, 2008

By now everyone has well settled into the new Sit’n'Go leaderboard promo and the competition has been heating up. Not only has the main leaderboard seen some stiff competition, it might even be over shadowed by the close race for the top spot on the streaker leaderboard.

When the Carbon marketing team were sitting around discussing the Sit’n'Go leaderboard before its introduction, we were expecting maybe a few people would reach streak bonuses of 5. Maybe even a 6 if they were exceptionally lucky. But now a quick glance at the leaderboard shows that we were a little off in our predictions. Several players have managed to break past the 7 streak bonus mark with 2 players reaching 7.5. This means that these players have won 5X 10 seated Sit’n'Gos in a row. Quite a respectable feat. Well done guys!

If there is any confusion still lingering about how the leaderboard points work and how the streak bonus affects your points, we have created a few tools to assist you. Simply go visit the Sit’n'Go leaderboard promo page on the Carbon website and use the calculators to work out how many points you should have!

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Posts Tagged ‘SitnGo’

Carbon SNG Leaderboard offers $10,000

Choosing Sit and Go Limits

Short-handed Sit and Go Strategy

Sit & Go Strategy for the Beginning Stages

Sit N Go Strategy

Playing Suited Connectors in Sit and Go’s

$10,000 Monthly SnG Leaderboard!

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