The Final Table is the Place to Kick it Up a Notch With Aggression
People that have never been here before or have rarely been in this position and that do not practice with SNG's poker are going to sit back and wait on monster hands. The blinds will be very significant at this point of the game and you need to protect yours and take some of the other ones when you are in position. Mark your players and then get ready to make the top 3.
One of the best places to get aggressive in this situation is from the small blind when it has been folded to you. Your choice of hands is very wide here and as long as 38 is not looking up at you, there is a good chance that you can steal the blind bet quite often, especially against an inexperienced player. Timing is key on this one as you can eventually set up a nice trap.
Some people will end up calling you a one trick pony, but when you have a stack and the BB is looking at a medium sized stack, they are ripe for the picking. Their blinds can be in your stack as long as cards are being dealt unless you run into an absolute monster of a hand. While they are waiting for big hands to double up, you are merely chopping away at their stack and trying to make them an insignificant factor on the table.
When chips are in your favor, don't limp and don't fold to the big blind. The move here is to push in each and every time and force the big blind to make a decision. They either play for all of their chips or they get out of the hand. This is a very prominent move by Erick Lindgren and he uses it both online poker and at live tournaments very successfully.
The reason it is so effective is because it frustrates the BB. While the threats are "Wait until I have a hand," that hand may never come. In the meantime, they start taking more chances in different positions because they know when the BB comes back around, they are going to be forced to play for their stack again. Even if you are not the one to take them out, you are eliminating their stack and frustrating the entire table.
People that have never been here before or have rarely been in this position and that do not practice with SNG's poker are going to sit back and wait on monster hands. The blinds will be very significant at this point of the game and you need to protect yours and take some of the other ones when you are in position. Mark your players and then get ready to make the top 3.
One of the best places to get aggressive in this situation is from the small blind when it has been folded to you. Your choice of hands is very wide here and as long as 38 is not looking up at you, there is a good chance that you can steal the blind bet quite often, especially against an inexperienced player. Timing is key on this one as you can eventually set up a nice trap.
Some people will end up calling you a one trick pony, but when you have a stack and the BB is looking at a medium sized stack, they are ripe for the picking. Their blinds can be in your stack as long as cards are being dealt unless you run into an absolute monster of a hand. While they are waiting for big hands to double up, you are merely chopping away at their stack and trying to make them an insignificant factor on the table.
When chips are in your favor, don't limp and don't fold to the big blind. The move here is to push in each and every time and force the big blind to make a decision. They either play for all of their chips or they get out of the hand. This is a very prominent move by Erick Lindgren and he uses it both online poker and at live tournaments very successfully.
The reason it is so effective is because it frustrates the BB. While the threats are "Wait until I have a hand," that hand may never come. In the meantime, they start taking more chances in different positions because they know when the BB comes back around, they are going to be forced to play for their stack again. Even if you are not the one to take them out, you are eliminating their stack and frustrating the entire table.
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