Why people play sit and go poker tournaments

The motivations that a player might have to play in a live sit and go poker tournament are many, here are just a few.

• To have a win or loss decided: Some people have to have a decision as to weather they have won or lost a game. The sit and go gives them that answer very quickly.

• To set a limit on their investment: The amount of money that a player has to put up is limited to the buy in for the tournament.

• To compete with others: For some players the competition is the main reward for playing. These players need to know they are the best, so they play to beat others. Any monetary gain is secondary.
  

• To manage time: If a player is limited in the amount of time he has to play then the sit and go is ideal for him. In Las Vegas many tourists find they don't have the time to play in a ring game or a full tournament because of the demands of sight seeing and other activities that they have to take part in. Therefore the sit and go poker tournament can fit their schedule nicely.
  

• For self esteem: To play and win in a Vegas poker tournament is quite a boost to a tourist's ego.

• Impatience: Many players don't have the patience to sit through an entire tournament of two or three hundred people to find the outcome of a session. The sit and go is the ideal way for these players to play without losing their focus.

All of these reasons may apply to any one player at any time. All of the players may be in the game for different reasons and will play their cards in very different ways because of this. You should look at your reasons for playing and adjust your goals accordingly.

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Sit And Go Poker Tournaments-Online vs. Vegas

Sit and go poker tournaments in Las Vegas are quite different from the online sit and go games that you may be used to. These differences call for a change in strategies if you want to win.

The main differences are:

• Pay Out Structure: The pay outs online are usually for the first three places in a single table ten player tournament. In Las Vegas the pay outs are usually for first and second place only.

• Early Level Blinds: On the internet the blinds usually start out low (10/20), in Las Vegas they normally start at a much higher level (25/50).

• Starting Chip Stack: The number of chips that a player starts with online is much greater in relation to the blinds than it is in Las Vegas. Online you start with around seventy (70) times the big blind. In Las Vegas your starting stack is about twenty (20) times the big blind.
  

• The Number of Hands per Hour: On the internet there will be about sixty(60) hands dealt per hour. In a Vegas card room expect about thirty(30) hands per hour. This means that the blinds will go up just about every full circuit of the button in the early levels of the tournament.
  

All these differences mean that playing strategies have to change somewhat between online and live card rooms.

The first change has to be how you play the early levels of the tournament. Online you want to play very tight early on. In a live Las Vegas game you can't do this as the blinds are so much higher in relation to your chip stack. After the first level you will be short stacked if you haven't added some chips. This means that your starting hand requirements have to be somewhat lower than online.

The next change has to be how aggressively you play your hands. Remember the other players are in the same boat as you. When you have a good starting hand and position you have to push it to gain chips.

In short, you have to play as if you are at mid level from the start.

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Bargain Sit and Go Poker Tournaments in Las Vegas

In doing research for another post on sit and go poker tournaments in Las Vegas, I found that most of the poker rooms are offering them at a fairly high buy-in. Although this may not bother some of you, it does cause a problem for the novice who is just trying to get his feet wet in a new type of poker tournament.

There is one poker room, however, that has sit and go tournaments at a very reasonable buy-in amount. The Plaza Casino, downtown, offers sit-n-go tournaments for a $40 buy-in from 9:00AM until 12:00AM, seven days a week.

These start as soon as there are 10 (ten) players signed up for a tournament. Usually this happens about three times an hour. So there is always a game going on or just getting started. When you sign up for the tournament don't go too far away as they fill up quite fast. If you're not there when the tournament starts, you will lose your seat.

The pay outs for these tournaments are $240 for first place and $90 for second place.

See you there.

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