Sit N Go Power Tool

Sit-N-Go Power Tools (SNGPT) is a fantastic poker tool. It is designed to assist SNG players in analyzing situations for mathematically correct decisions. This is invaluable, and sometimes very surprising information to have.

When you play single table tournaments (SNG’s) situations start to form a pattern. The fact is that once the blinds get big, many of the decisions become a combination of math and player knowledge. The only reason player knowledge is even a factor is that your opponents calling range is part of the equation.

How the software works, in application, is quite simple. You supply the appropriate information, and ask the program what you should do. The situations to analyze are when you have 10 big blinds or less. You are always asking whether you should push all in or fold, or call when another player pushes all in.

It should be noted that when you have more chips than 10 big blinds, the game is much more complex. You can afford to raise and fold. You can bet after the flop and still fold a hand. These situations are too complex to analyze in this mathematical way.

Once your stack, or your opponents, is 10 big blinds or less, adopting a push fold strategy is appropriate. At this point it becomes a mathematical situation with one variable. You need to decide what range of hands that you believe your opponents might call you with. Once that decision is made, you plug in the numbers, and are given the best play for profits in the long run.

The software calculates your chip equity in the tournament. Considering the payouts, and number of players left, it completes the data needed. The only subjective part of this equation is what hands will your opponents call you with.

You choose this range to complete the program set up. Let’s say you are in a 10 player SNG. There are 4 left. You all have 2,500 chips left with 200/400 blinds. Only 3 players cash, so it’s bubble time. You are first to act and have AJ. Should you go all in?

Let’s say you feel your opponents will call with only the top hands AQ, AK, and 10 10 to AA. The answer will blow your mind. If you expect your opponents to be this tight, you certainly should go all in with AJ. Incredible as it seems, with this set of circumstances you should go all in with ANY TWO CARDS!

If these same players would call your all in bet with hands like 66 and AJ, or better, things are very different. At that point you should play the top 24% hands. This includes A2 suited, 55, K6 suited, even 10 8 suited, and 98 suited. Still, it is pretty amazing to think that this is correct play.

Without a software program to analyze situations like this, it is very difficult to come to the correct conclusions. If you fold these weaker hands all the time in these conditions, you are giving up equity each time you do this. Although not recognizable in the short run, in the long run this will be costing you money. It might make you a losing player, when you would be winning with just this one adjustment in your game.

Better than just going on and on about this, go and check it out for yourself. It is well worth the price ($79) if you are a serious poker player. If you play lots of heads up and SNG tournaments, it is a virtual must. You can download the software and check it out before you buy it.