Winning Six Handed SnGs

When most people think of Sit n Go games they normally associate them with 9 or 10man tables. Whilst these are the most popular type of SnGs, I would highly recommend everyone to try Six Handed Sit n Gos. The most noticeable difference between these two games is the speed. If your used to playing 9man SnGs you will be accustomed to the blinds changing every 6 minutes allowing you to see a lot of hands. Whereas in six handed games you will start off short handed, keeping the play much more fast paced.

Winning at Six Handed SnGs

To beat six-handed games you will have to play fairly differently to how you normally would. Considering your stacks will be much smaller in comparison with the blinds, you will need to open up your range of starting hands. Obviously you should still be throwing away your trash hands but you will need to be seeing more flops with good hands and playing them aggressively to improve your stack size. Although, don’t fall into the same mistake that a lot of other players do in these games which is playing too loose – too early on. These players will often knock each other out fairly early on, quickly leaving the table with only 4 players.

Getting Into The Money

In six handed sit and gos only the top 2 players get paid, with first place taking 3x your buy-in and second place only taking 2x your buy-in. If you’ve been lucky enough to double up already you want to stay cautious. Don’t risk losing your lead by excessively trying to steal the blinds or calling raises out of position. Instead keep playing tight – aggressive poker whilst trying to take another player’s stack when you’ve got a good hand.

If, on the other hand, your short stacked your going to want to try and double up as soon as you can. You will often have the big-stack trying to bully the rest of the table by constantly trying to steal pots (remember.. you shouldn’t be doing this). Take advantage of this by getting your stack in when you’ve got a good hand. Chances are the big stack will fold to a re-raise and if not – chances are you’ve got the better hand and you’ll double up.

Always Go For First Place

As I mentioned earlier, first place gets paid considerably more than second place, with first getting 3x the buy-in whilst second place only gets 2x the buy-in. So you should always be going for the win. As you get closer to the bubble you need to be applying more and more pressure onto your opponents. Try to target the player who is just trying to sneak into second place as they should be the easiest to exploit by being much more likely to fold under any pressure. At this time the blinds will be quickly catching up to the third place’s stack so you will soon see your opponents going all-in with much less than premium hands. Then you will be heads-up which you can read up on in a lot of detail HERE.

In summary, you can beat six handed SnGs very easily with this simple but very effective strategy. Just remember to play moderately tight from the beginning until you get to the bubble where you want to be very aggressive to allow you to go for the win.

Best Poker Sites for Sit n Go Games

• For the softest Sit n Go tables we highly recommend Full Tilt Poker . They have an extremely high amount of tables to choose from and are known to contain a lot of weak players at the low stake games.

See you at the tables!

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