SNG Strategy - 10 Early Game Tells
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1-table tournaments are hugely popular on line, and possess some significant strategy adjustments when comparing to a standard poker money game. With the later stages, and specially the 'bubble' (when only 1 more player needs to bust ahead of the paying places) so essential, it is key that you predict how different players will react during this stage of the game.
Below is a list of 10 vital things to look out for through the early stages, when chips are plentiful and the pressure low - along with what these signs can tell you about a particular players late game and bubble strategy.
- Early Game: Take note of any hands which players call raises with, this is an enormous clue as to the kind of hand they will show up with later on at the bubble.
- Check-Raises: Look for permainan capsa susun check-raisers, some players use this typically when out of position and others check and then fold. Exploiting a serial check-raiser is very easy, you get to take free cards in some situations and these players will often help you build a big pot too! Check-raisers are used to playing backwards, so expect more late game bluffs too.
- Unusual Bet Sizes Early / Mid Game: Note players who make 4x or bigger open raises, this is the mark of an inexperienced on line player or can be a hint that they have a hand they cannot really want to view a flop with, such as a mid-pair. Inexperienced opponents tend to call 'light' at the bubble.
- Open Limpers: Again, inexperience often leads to a lot of limping into the pot. These players are unlikely to be carrying out a tight-early / push late strategy and certainly will make classic bubble errors. Watch for players who often raise then suddenly limp-in, this is often a big hand.
- Super-Tight Players: Make a note of those that play extremely little hands for the first few levels, they can easily be good players employing a 'Pushbot' form of strategy.
- Shows: Whenever a player gets a walk in the big blind and shows his trash hand, bets and then shows a bluff or shows a strong hand after every one folds the turn - you should absolutely make a note. Again there's a high likelihood that this player is inexperienced, especially showing rags in the blind and revealing bluffs. Experienced grinders understand that SNGs are too short for such nonsense and have seen enough of pokers variations that they do not need to show you their cards.
- Bluffing Dry Side Pots: Most players in SNGs will check a hand down whenever a player is all-in. Those who bet when there is no second pot to win (only the one that the all-in player can win) and then show a weak holding usually are inexperienced... provisionally assign them the 'Push too tight, call too light' bubble ranges.
- Bubble Calls, Hopefully this one is obvious, when you see a call at the bubble which looks 'light' immediately take a note that will help you put this player on a better range of hands next time around.
- Bubble Raise / Folds: When you see a player with 12 blinds or less raise 3x after which fold to a re-raise you can be pretty certain they do not understand the facts of prize-pool equity (based on the very fact that they do not really understand pot-odds! ).
- Push-Bots: This term refers to players who are pushing all-in at nearly every opportunity, frequently good players! You can assign these types a massive range, however, you know you still can't call with no premium hand, right!
