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Assesses The Changing Poker Environment Which Might Contribute To Observations That Sit N Goes Are Becoming Tougher And Suggests Some Common Sense Remedies! It’s a question that has been asked many times – and will undoubtedly continue to be asked for many years to come: Are Online SNG Tournaments Becoming Tougher?
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Poker is a game which has risen in popularity over the years. This means that more and more players are taking up the game for various reasons. Some play it for fun while others think about making this their career. The rise in the number of poker players leads to one question from almost everyone. Will poker games continue to get tougher? There are many points of views and reasons to.

INTRODUCTION TO JONATHAN LITTLE’S EXCELLING AT TOUGH NO-LIMIT HOLD’EM GAMES

Excelling at Tough No-Limit Hold’em Games is a must-have if you have ambitions to move up the stakes. Renowned poker player and leading coach Jonathan Little brings together ten No-Limit experts to provide cutting-edge information for the keen student.

All the authors are established coaches for pocarr.com, the prominent backing company that features an immense private training site for backees. Pocarr has helped numerous players climb the poker ladder and succeed at the highest levels in events such as the WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) and SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker).

Success beyond the lower stakes demands a highly specific skill set. Excelling at Tough No-Limit Hold’em Games will show you how to develop this so you can rise to the top of the game.

Topics include:

Quick tips for beating the low stakes games
Adjusting your preflop strategy
When to c-bet (continuation bet)
How to defend against c-bets
Navigating multi-way pots
Basic ICM (Independent Chip Model) and advanced ICM
Medium stacked final table strategies
Strategies to crush live poker

Tougher Poker Games

Excelling at Tough No-Limit Hold’em Games is the essential guide for anyone who is serious about wanting to succeed at the high stakes and make a significant income from poker.

AUTHORS:

Jonathan Little

Alex ‘msusyr24’ Carr

Alexandre ‘Cavalito’ Mantovani

Ben ‘BennyBills’ Shuster

Bert ‘girafganger7’ Stevens

Jon ‘apestyles’ Van Fleet

Luiz ‘AcePheres’ Feres

Mat ‘AussieStar’ Brown

Richard ‘ChipsFool’ Hoadley

Rob Tinnion

Vlada ‘Vlada2108’ Stojanović

Assesses The Changing Poker Environment Which Might Contribute To Observations
That Sit N Goes Are Becoming Tougher… And Suggests Some Common Sense Remedies!

It’s a question that has been asked many times – and will undoubtedly continue to be asked for many years to come: Are Online SNG Tournaments Becoming Tougher?

There are several factors which are usually brought up in these discussions which might contribute to the toughening of the games. Here I'll go through them one by one assessing them as objectively as possible. While I'll agree that the games are not as easy as they once were, they are still very much beatable in 2020 (especially at the $22 and under level). The second half of this article looks at ways in which you can fine tune your games, and maybe you profit expectations, and get on with building that big poker bankroll.

Are Sit N Go Tournaments Harder? Contributing Factors Assessed

Here are the factors put forward by people on forums / blogs as to why the games are getting harder.

1. Training Sites: There are an increasing number of training sites catering for SNG Players. While these vary hugely in quality, what they will do is quickly plug the main leaks of losing / breakeven players and turn them into ‘super-tight early, push-late’ players. There is little doubt that a certain percentage of fish are becoming small winners, what I can not say is how long these trained players last at the tables. One thing I feel this contributes to is the amount of players who 'partially' understand strategy, but get lost when anything non-standard apprears. For example, people who know they should be raising the button when folded to, but still manage to make major errors when one of the blinds 3-bets. As sub-niche of this category are the staked players in stables who receieve training in how to grind and share their winnings with their coach / backers. At the lower buy-in levels you will find a lot of players with a very 'robotic' strategy in the 9, 18 and 180 SNGs particularly - along with some better players who have 'graduated' from the real grind.

2. Popularity Of ‘Grinding’: Go back a few years and the players with 12 or 16 tables were the exceptions. With improved computers and bigger monitors, learning to grind SNGs for a small profit from many tables is within the reach of more players. While the ‘burn out’ from this form of the game is higher, it only takes a few grinders to soak up the value from a lot of SNG tournaments. This is the key reason for me that the games are less profitable, there the same number of winning and losing players - only the winners are playing 12 games at once and the losers 1 or 2. This means the proportion of winners is higher, and the dead money in the prize pool smaller. One counter argument is that grinders play a fairly robotic strategy in order to get their volume high, if you are observant and take notes you will be able to exploit many of them. Of course, the obvious way to counteract the growth in grinding is to accept that the profit per game is smaller than it used to be, and learn to play more games yourself to make up for it.

Key to Big Profits: Finding the Softest Games: If you are playing at sites full of Eastern Euro nits, or recognise the same players grinding the games just like you - then you have problem!

Key to profitable poker is finding the softest opponents. Some sites (Stars for example), are 'regular heavy'. Sure, you can win, though with multiple profitable opponents in the same games, your hourly rate is always going to suffer.

I have two recommendations for where to find the softest Sit N Goes in 2020. One is for US players, and the other an international site. Don't take my word for it, check out the standard of play, and decide for yourself how much money you are leaving on the table by not jumping right in.

International Players: Party Poker are crushing it when it comes to soft games in all formats. I love their SNGs. This is the only site where more than half the field have yet to discover ICM or basic positional strategy. Party now offer up to 40% cashback (based on your volume, paid automatically every Monday). This makes Monday the ideal time to check out the games, since the fish get some cash back too! Use bonus code SNGPLANET, grab $40 in tokens (varies by country) and a 100% bonus, and start profiting from those soft games right now. See www.partypoker.com for yourself!

US Based Players: Bovada have grown into the giant of offshore action. They have a unique 'recreational player model', which keeps the balance between grinders and fish. Once you see the SNGs, you'll wonder why you have been playing anywhere else. What I like about Bovada is that the bad players can be found right up to the mid-stakes ($20+ games). You'll play anonymously and with a solid game, your bankroll will move up fast. Check out the softest US SNGs by far for yourself now at www.bovada.lv

3. Books, Forums and Websites: The sheer amount of information aimed at varying experience levels is huge. Again, quality varies and is consumed at the reader’ risk. H

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Tougher Poker Games

Assesses The Changing Poker Environment Which Might Contribute To ObservationsThat Sit N Goes Are Becoming Tougher… And Suggests Some Common Sense Remedies!

Are Sit N Go Tournaments Harder? Contributing Factors Assessed

Assesses The Changing Poker Environment Which Might Contribute To Observations
That Sit N Goes Are Becoming Tougher… And Suggests Some Common Sense Remedies!