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When you play No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em online, you can do so in either cash game or tournament format. One of the most popular No Limit Hold ‘Em tournaments out there is the single table sit and go tournament. This tournament features a single table of 9 or 10 players. Each player buys in for a certain amount and the top three players get paid progressively smaller shares of the total prize pool.
It is possible to make a living playing poker online just by playing sit n go tournaments, although if you do play them you need to realize that the keyword is survival. If you are able to survive to the final three, you have just reached your primary goal of cashing in the tournament. Therefore, your strategy should initially be one of survival.
In the early stages of the tournament, survival is definitely what you want to do. Early on a sit and go tournament will be full of all ins on total cheese, but cheese can still break you and send you home with nothing if you get unlucky. Fold everything but your top hands and play those hands very aggressively to mimic the play of the looser players. If you do this, you might get lucky enough to catch players off guard and take all their chips. Even without the second part of that strategy, you can probably fold your way to the 6 or 7 player mark because of how aggressive some of the earlier players will be.
Once you are down to those players and the all in bets have become far less frequent, it is time to switch to mid-game strategy. You have likely built up some good tight reputations at the table, so put them to good use now by stealing blinds and raising when your opponents seem week. You can certainly recoup the blinds you folded earlier and place yourself in a decent position as far as getting to the final three are concerned.
Once you have gone to the final three, start getting really aggressive as a late game strategy. You should finish a tournament in either third or first. Finishing in second means that you should have been more aggressive.
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