Joined: Nov '09
Location: Poland
Age: 34 (M)
Posts: 50
Hi
I think best way is to stay very tight until the level 5 (ante is starting);
since 5th level, YOu should increase Your pre-flop range (especially on late positions to steal blinds)
You should remember, that the crucial decision You will going to make at later stages of sng; so playing risky at the beginning with average hands, especially without position with aggresive players, will make You stack short, and You will be forced to play; or blinds with eat You.
Very tight from beggining, see some cheap flops with suited connectors and low to medium pairs and try to hit a set or straight/flush draws. In the push fold phase make good profitable shoves and correct calls (see SNG wizard). Usually the calling range will be a bit looser than in DON´s, because in Fifty50 the size of your stack matters.
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 7371
I normally play it tight to start with until you can get a good read on the players at your table. The blinds are so small on the first few levels that it is possible to sit back and see what others are doing and then start loosening up after 3 or 4 levels
Joined: May '13
Location: Mauritius
Age: 32 (M)
Posts: 2688
Aggressive and loose in some spots can get you money if the table is full of nits and fold with pressure. Don't overdo it or you will have them play back at you, also sometimes they will call you with anything and you will flip and thus lead to more variance.
Advice is to play tight and then go all in with QQ+. And steals a lot if they are not aware!
Joined: Feb '11
Location: Germany
Age: 31 (M)
Posts: 1859
If it's microstakes,you can come along with standard early strat (very tight) and for the push/fold play you better download SNGWizard and practise example ranges,because every hand is very individual in SNGs,however you have to get an idea about certain situations and what your ranges roughly should be. For higher stakes you'll have to get more advanced stuff anyways. I wouldn't recommend these games when wanting to build a bankroll though. Only low winrates possible and thus relativly large swings can really kill the motivation. You'll need a lot of time and ability to grind many tables at once continously to really make your time worth there @ the micros.
Joined: May '13
Location: Mauritius
Age: 32 (M)
Posts: 2688
yeah sngwizard a really good software. I used some others one, I learn the push fold range for sngs mainly. Not too sure about the 50/50. It changes because you have to take into account the stack size and the antes etc.
I bet to disagree fitfys get you a bankroll and you can achieve a big roi rather than standard sngs. But more volume needed.
SNG wizard can calculate Fifty50 tournaments as well. Achievable ROI is extremely low though, because of the payout structure you can´t get a big edge over your opponents. So the way to go is do a big volume, try to be +- breakeven and get a good VIP status to get a good rakeback. All serious fifty50 players have most of their profits from rakeback. (see their sharkscope profiles)
Joined: Feb '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 59 (M)
Posts: 5712
Pretty good advice above...... Starting off tight, with a strategy to get others to play when you have a monster to maximise the money making value, and then , having assessed what everyone else is playing, adapt your strategy to get the most out of them.
Alternatively, as the best advice appears to be to play tight, if you quickly assess that the Reston the tale is playing tight, loosen up and take advantage of the mice at the table.
