Sit 'n Go Strategy by Collin Moshman
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Book Reviews of Sit 'n Go Strategy
Book Review: Great book for SNG strategy
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great book for SNG strategy if you are new to the concept.
But one could save themselves a lot of trouble by breaking it down to these three points:
1) there is going to be some variance in your wins, so make sure you have a large enough bankroll for the level you are playing (what "large enough" means varies by the player's skill and playing style)
2) play very tight early in the game, loosen up and be more aggressive later in the game
3) use SNG Wizard to review all of your games to learn where there are non-intuitive spots to get your money in when the blinds are high
Note that while this book is about NLHE, the basic concept will apply to nearly any SNG strategy, keeping in mind that for limit and PL games, it is slightly harder as your bet sizing is not always going to be much of a threat, therefore your fold equity does not count for much, which much of this strategy is built around.
Otherwise, this is essentially the mathematical model for beating the games.
I personally I have had less success (or perhaps just way more variance) in the turbo games, but crush the regular ones. The better you are, your skill is going to come from you making fewer mistakes, and you exploiting your opponents mistakes - that means in a turbo, there is going to be less time for your opponents to make mistake and so in theory the variance should be higher.
Book Review: Best SNG strategy book I have read
Summary: 5 Stars
I think this is a pretty awesome book. It is to the point, and if you follow the strategies in this book to the letter, you should have absolutely NO problems crushing the $5 or $10 SNGs. It may even be useful at the higher levels, but currently, I have no way of telling ;). Ofcourse, every now and then some donk will draw out on you, but in the long run you will make money. The text is for intermediate to advanced players, so its better if you've read Harrington's books prior to this one. It is for players who understand the basic math in poker, probabilities, pot odds and that sort of stuff. Moshman's advice, then, for a particular hand, after taking into consideration all the math involved, is based on player tendencies. He does not devote a lot of text on how to determine whether a player is loose or tight, or passive or aggressive, but if you can figure that out, then his strategies and advice are spot on. For that aspect of the game, I would recommend a poker psychology book, such as "Psychology of Poker".
All in all, I think this book is great, especially if used in conjunction with Harrington's series, a poker psychology book and perhaps another book like "Theory of Poker" (Sklansky/Malmuth)
There is also value in re-reading the books perhaps with a gap of a few months to revise the concepts.
Book Review: A pretty important read
Summary: 5 Stars
I agree with the first reviewer: really good poker books need lots of examples. It doesn't matter how good the rest of the writing is ... I want lots of specific examples and lots of actual hands, and this book is bursting with them.
Doyle's chapter on no-limit in Super System 2 has solid advice, e.g., but there just aren't enough hands and details for me to feel confident implementing a lot of it into my game. Well that isn't a problem with this book.
Favorite chapters of mine in Sit & Go Strategy are primarily the high-blind stuff
(Lower blind chapters are good too, but we all know S&Gs are decided at high blinds):
Bubble Play (and the awesome ICM-justified queens fold to an all-in there)
Heads Up
Ante Adjusting (I hadn't realized how important antes were in S&Gs...)
Fund. Theory of High Blind Play - best part of the book
My only criticism is a fair number of small typos (even the back cover...), but that's well worth navigating to get this ultra-solid info on a game with huge profit potential.
Book Review: Excelent, with a word of caution
Summary: 5 Stars
If you don't read this book and want to play sit n go's you will lose money unless you are an experienced well rounded player.
The author describes an excelent strategy to make money playing (online) sit n go's. With tracking software you will without a doubt gain profitable information on players and their betting tendencies. However, the plays described in this book are correct when you are playing people who understand the game. As such, this book will help you TREMENDOUSLY if you are playing 10$ or higher games. At lower levels players are just too inexperienced to recognize your play and inevitably you will lose huge pots because those monkeys keep drawing out on you by making that idiot straight or a two pair with K6o when all they had on the flop was a measly pair of sixes. That being said, I'm not complaining or telling bad beat stories. In the long run correct play is winning play. Realize however who you are playing against and adapt your plays accordingly, rather than doing what the book dictates.
Book Review: Great book from start to finish
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm not going to go into a whole lot of deal about what the book talks about but I will give you my story with it. Before readying this book I knew the basics of poker in general. After learning from a friend that I should learn a system for sit n go poker I found this poke on amazon a decided to buy it. The teachings of this book not only gave me a solid sit n go poker strategy but gave me an understating on why I was playing the the way I was and what others we're doing as well. I highly recommend this book to people that are interested in becoming a profitable sit n go poker player. The one major piece of advice I would have when buying this book is to read it from start to finish with out skipping around. You need to really discipline yourself to not skip around and master each part before moving on. If you do that then this book will give you the skills needed to make money at sit n go poker.
Best of luck!!!
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