Nine Player Sit and Go Strategy

The most popular sit and go tournament played currently in poker online rooms is the simple nine player single table tournament. In these tournaments the top three players get paid money so you have a 33% chance of making money playing in these, but you need to remain consistent over the long run to make any serious money.

Depending on the blind structure you play at, and if there are any absolute poker cheats, will deeply reflect how you play the tournament. If you’re playing with 15 minute blind intervals then you’ll be able to sit back and wait for some good hands to come to you. If you decide to play in turbo tournaments with 5 minute blind intervals then you need to be more prepared to play marginal hands and be willing to commit your chips early on. I personally would recommend playing regular blind tournaments with 15 minute intervals if you’re new to playing sit and go tournaments because it gives you more playing time.

The one thing you need to do in these tournaments is to limit the amount of hands you play past the flop, but play a lot of hands preflop especially when the blinds are low. When the blinds are low it’s worth playing to the flop so you can see if you can hit a straight or flush. When you do have a hand you feel is the best hand you need to make sure you bet it big and take full advantage of the hand. The goal you should aim for when playing in these tournaments is to play as little hands as possible, but when you do play hands you win a lot chips.

When you have a good hand preflop on Full Tilt Poker, and you have made sure there are no poker cheat players at the table, I would suggest raising the pot preflop so that you can get the marginal hands out of the pot. Nothing is worse then having a monster hand and losing to a horrible hand because you didn’t raise the pot preflop so make sure you always do. Winning a small pot is always better then losing a big pot. You also need to be willing to raise your opponents throughout hands when you think you can steal the pot from them. A lot of players will bluff fairly often so you need to be willing to find out sometimes whether or not they have a hand. Once you do this once the player will be careful about bluffing you again.

You also need to be willing to bluff in these Club WPT tournaments so that you aren’t losing blinds every time around the table. If you’re able to steal a small pot every time you go around the table then you’ll be able to wait for a big hand where you can try and double up. As the tournament progresses you should start limiting the amount of hands you play even more and aim to make it to the top three. Once you make it to the top three you can open up your game again and try things out, but don’t be to risky when you’re playing with 4-5 players left in the tournament.