when do you make a move?

[fasin8ing]

Where- Single table SNG
Blinds- 50 /100
Stack- Medium 1400-1700
Game play up until this point- TIGHT
Players left at the table- 5
Player A Large stack 2000+ , tight quality player
Player B Medium Stack 1400+, keeps limping, plays anything suited or face card, has showed down some nice hands.
Player C Medium Stack 1400+ , guards blinds, raises button or in late position with anything
Player D low -medium stack 800 , wishing for quality cards to double up.

Based on the table information, and me coming in 5th place a number of times... What style is the best approach for play at this table?

[ZenOffsuit]

It depends on your postion in each hand. Who is to your left, how do they play, chips stacks. Your table image etc...

A hand history for the table would be better because each time the button moves, the situation changes and your 'style' is dictated by the situation at hand based on the factors above. A quick and easy answer is Selective aggression. If you are in the SB and that limper comes in and it folds to you, make a big raise put him to the test. Of course you need to know what the BB is like as a player, his stack in relation to yours etc.

But you need to find spots to be aggressive, put players to the test. Find weakness and prey on it.

[drmcboy]

SNG forum probabably would be better.


you aren't in push fold, especially at a tight table. Raise 2.5x-3x with almost anything if it isn't getting called when you can open. Be OK with folding once. Either you'll get raised with a hand too good to fold and play a big pot, or you'll pick up a bunch of blinds, or you'll lose one raise. If you get down to 900-1k, you stop raising and you have a couple orbits you can push fold. If you double up with a good hand or steals, hooray, now go win.

[Warpe]

I play a lot of these and don't change things up much until about half the field is gone and I can expand my range. For the most part I play uber-tight, camp for monsters and don't really gambool unless my stack is less than 10BB. Overall, getting ITM is more a matter of letting the LAggs kill each other off and getting paid for your quality hands. I'm very careful on the bubble and will fold a good hand pre-flop if it looks like there'll be a multi-way all-in just to avoid collateral damage. I avoid races like the plague unless I have a near nut hand, a stack advantage or I'm short-stacked and pushing.

Yeah, post some bubble play hh.