Use aggression and fear to dominate sit n go satellites

Well today is Sunday and I have to say it is definitely the day of the poker player. Pokerstars will have over 150,000 players online tonight. With massive prize pools. The big tournament everyone wants to play is the Sunday million, which really is now the Sunday million and half. The guarantee for it is $1.5 Million with over $200,000 going to first place now on a regular basis. The buy-in is $215. That is not easily afford by the masses, there are however thousands of ways to satellite into the tournament.

You can pick from scheduled satellites or the Sit n Go style satellites. My personal favourite is the $10.70+$1 double shoot out. It has 2 seats guaranteed to the Sunday Million and when full has 4 seats to Sunday million and if you make it to the final table your guarantee at least a cash of $35. It is in the format of ten Sit'n'Goes each has up to ten players. The goal is to win your first table to go through to the final “money” table. This really suits Sit'n'go players. You play a double shoot out exactly the same as Sit'n'go. The first table your are aiming to accumulate all the chips only the first place counts. You have to be more aggressive and build chips in this.

Now being aggressive does not mean you put your chips your whole stack at risk. Your aiming to takes lots of little uncontested pots. If you find yourself in a pot take a stab at it once you know no one is interested in it. Bet between 1/2 and 2/3 of the pot. This gives you between to 2-1 1.5-1 odds on your money. If you think you can win the pot more than 50-75% of the time it becomes profitable on its own. You will eventually build up a nice stack and because of your aggressiveness you will have built up a nice chip margin over the other players. The bigger the stack you have the more people will fear your aggression.

You will find having controlled aggression will have your opponents running scared. It is psychological difficult for most players to play you when you have them out chipped and short stacked. They become weaker and weaker. They start calling more with hands they shouldn't and then they will fold once the miss on the flop. You start to pick up more and more chips like a magnet.

Once you win the first table you should have $35 in the bank assuming the tournament was full. You now need to play a different game. You want accumulate chips still but people will play a lot looser having won $35. You want that $215 ticket! You will have to pick your spots more carefully here. At least until you get to 6-5 left this is usually the guys who are desperate to get the ticket. Can you smell their fear again? They do not want to go out now. What was once someone with balls of steal in there first round is now a nervous wreck. It is time for you punish this weakness.

Weakness in your opponents will allow you to build a stack with relative ease while putting the other players into survival mindset. Raise and steal from the weakest ones first to build your stack. But do not become a pig and knock them out they are useful. Once you have got the weak players chipped down enough you want to go after the guys with chips. Are you thinking why? Well if you are not you should be. The guys with chips have become relaxed and tight. They do not need to fight and are not looking for a fight. You are doing the work for them. They will concede their blinds and ante's to you. They are guaranteed a ticket almost they want the little guy to go out. So they will constantly fold to you. This is how you build your stack so that you can then push all the players around. Once you are chipped up if they fight back against you it is too late. They cant hurt you. But you can cause them a whole world of pain.

So remember this the next time you play a double shoot-out.

Baca85
Pokerstaking.com – Play Online Poker
PS: If you want to take your game to the next level you should checkout PokerPwnage