adjusting play in 2 table sngs

[tcpj4]

I've been playing 5.50 SnGs almost exclusively in my few days of playing on Poker Stars.

My question is how do you all adjust your play when the tables combine and there is another force at the table, along with many players who you don't have reads on? Stealing the blinds seems a lot less appealing when there is a n unknown player behind you. Should I aggro up a bit more and keep these new players in check, or play a bit more tight and try to get a read on them? The latter option seems bitter sweet, as if I don't exploit my chip lead, I am giving these short stacks time to get their hands.

any input would be appreciated.

huggles. <3
edit: i guess this could have gone in beginner's circle as well, whatever.

[AvatarKava]

Most players believe you until you give them a reason to do otherwise. Aggro will work better for stealing blinds at a new table (in the short run, on average) than it will at a table where players have seen you doing the same thing for 45 minutes.

[Hubris1]

Most players believe you until you give them a reason to do otherwise.

5.50 SnGs

[vqc]

hubris has a point, at the 5.5 you cant make anyone believe anything, they only play their own cards.

[AvatarKava]

Sorry. Late and I wasn't thinking straight.

I'll say it in a way that will hold true for 5.50 SNGs:

Most players will still play their own cards, but there's a definite contingent of players in small-stakes (resident pros as I call them) that believe it is THEIR job to expose your "obvious bluffs" and call you down with middle pair, TP no kicker, etc. They're less likely to do this to the new guy at the table for the first hand than the guy who has been raising into them for half the tournament.

The moral of the story is that you don't need to alter your play THAT much for a 2-table - early play is a little different but once it condenses it plays strikingly similar to the single tables.