If you fancy having a crack at SNG’s or STT’s as they are also known then you will need to have a good default strategy in place. However an STT isn’t strictly speaking an SNG even though both can mean a tournament played over one table and no more. STT’s basically stand for “single table tournaments” while SNG’s stand for sit ad go’s”. The latter can be played over more than table and some are played with many players in them but not too many. One common SNG is the 55 man tournament and some players specialise in these events.
There is a common misconception that you should play very tightly during the early stages of SNG’s. Do not get me wrong here because this is a good theory to stick to. But you do deny yourself the chances to pick up chips early. One common phrase is that you shouldn’t bother stealing blinds when they are insignificant. If the stacks are 10-20 and your stack is 1500 then it makes no sense to risk your tournament life for T30 in chips. A stack of 1500 will play just as well as a stack of 1530.
However what we are looking at here are the further chips that your opponents contribute to the pot and then fold and this will almost certainly mean more than 30 in chips. If you force your opponent from a hand for a further 300 post flop when the blinds are 10-20 then that is like steal raising and not getting called when the blinds are 100-200…….it is the same 300 in chips and those extra 300 could make the difference between winning and losing.
