Although Sit and Go tourneys are different from the multi table games, in essence it still is a typical Texas hold’em game with the stakes going up and the table loosing down or tightening up at every turn of the game. If you want to be the winner every single time, the key is to take advantage of all such situations and play it by the ear accordingly.

Any game usually kicks off with a lot of hullaballoo. Players tend to pull out all stops in the hope of walking away with the pot. Of course, everyone has a different way of doing so. While some would try to overwhelm the rest by heavy betting, tricking people into believing they are sure shot winners and so are playing the aggressive game, some just play it down. Therefore it is a common site to see a couple of player eliminated right after the first few rounds. These early big bets are at best rash and hence should be treated with the utmost caution, just like in a multi table tourney, unless of course if you know you are a sure winner and have a few good tricks up your sleeve.

Gradually, these games do tighten up after a certain point, wherein people start taking notice of their opponents’ style of play, body language and any other scrap of information they can deem by observations. When the blinds progress from the lower stages to the middle stages, people revert back to the initial aggressive stance as nobody would want to be blinded out after having come so far.

This is the time when the actual big betting opportunities are created as changes are made in the stack size, players try to cash in on the situation in different ways with big stacks trying to out the little ones and the little ones pouncing on any and every chance to double their worth. Of course not all games are going to follow a script. The most important thing to remember about game flow is to watch for changing moods and capitalize by going against the flow. Tight tables offer more opportunities for the aggressive player, aggressive tables more opportunities for the tight player.

Observation

The key to understanding and improving your skills at playing Sit and Go’s is observation which is more important in this form of the game like in no other form of Texas hold’em. Simply because you get to see all the hands dealt at the table, including your opponents till you are playing at the table. Since the number of players as well as the players themselves stay the same from the start to the end of the game, it is easier to adapt yourself to their playing styles, observe them at close quarters and also use it to your advantage.

Thankfully there are no moving tables in this form of the game and no addition of new players or subtraction of old ones during the course of the game. Therefore your bank on your observation and intuition to read players as well mask your true intentions and send out only those signals you want other players to read.