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Double or Nothing SNGs
DIR By: Mudsill
Date: January 29, 2013, 10:25 am
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For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Double or Nothing
(or Double Up) format, here's how it works. Once 10 players have
registered, the game begins just like a normal single-table SNG.
Players are eliminated as they run out of chips. Once 5 players
have been eliminated, the tournament ends and the remaining 5
players each receive a cash prize equivalent to 2x their buy-in
(minus entry fees).
And just like that, you've doubled your money!
Double-Up games run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at Aced Poker
HTML http://www.aced.com/_VXI8dnY2nN4Gu8t3BXHzdWNd7ZgqdRLk/1/,
and
can be found in Sit N Go > 1-Table. These games' buy-ins
currently range from $1 to $100. Entry fees are $0.08 cents on
the dollar.
Find out how easy it is to double your money. Click here to play
a Double-Up SNG now at Aced Poker
HTML http://www.aced.com/_VXI8dnY2nN4Gu8t3BXHzdWNd7ZgqdRLk/1/
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Re: Double or Nothing SNGs
DIR By: Mudsill
Date: January 29, 2013, 11:12 am
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Played one of the $1 Aced Poker
HTML http://www.aced.com/_VXI8dnY2nN4Gu8t3BXHzdWNd7ZgqdRLk/1/<br
/>Double-Up SNGs this morning and did quite well. I typically
like
to play a wide variety of hands in the first couple of levels of
any tournament while the blinds are cheap, and my strategy going
into this game was no different. I didn't manage to hit any big
flops early on, and easily mucked and got out of the way when I
missed.
With the blinds at 25/50, the player to my left had taken a bad
hit and was down to about 300 chips. The chip-leader had over
3K, and I was still over 1,200 (from an original 1,500 starting
stack). I raised from early position with Td8d to 150. 2 players
called, and the short-stack shoved all in. We all called and saw
the flop, 4d Qd 7d. I insta-checked. I wasn't trying to be
tricky. I simply wanted to check it down to the river and make
sure one of the players in the hand could KO the shortstack. The
other 2 players checked. 5h fell on the turn, and I
insta-checked again. Next player checked. Then the big stack
thought for a few moments before betting 600.
Normally I check down in these types of tourneys if a player is
all-in. In this game, it's not about how many chips you have at
the end. It's a simple matter of eliminating 5 players. But once
some jackass dry-humps the pot, I'm ready to play some ball for
the side pot. I shoved all in. Next player folded, and the
bettor called my all-in. He turned over AsQh (can't even
remember what the shortstack had, but it didn't beat my flush).
And I scooped the main and side pots.
I was now big stack at the table with about 3K, and the former
chipleader was down under 1,500.
I went on an absolute tear in the tourney, stealing blinds and
pots, hitting hands, and knocking players out. By the time we
had got down to the money bubble, I had amassed over 7,000 in
chips. The player who had been the tourney's first chip leader
(the guy who dry-fucked the all-in pot), was now the short-stack
in the tournament. Had he simply checked down to eliminate the
all-in player, I would have checked down as well, and he would
have only lost about 300 into that pot.
Here's the irony. Had he played every hand the same after that,
he would have been comfortably in 2nd place with over 2,000 in
chips at the end of that game. Instead, he was down in last
place and sitting in the Big Blind. Everyone folded to the
blinds. The SB mini-raised with ace-rag. And the BB, being so
desperately short, shoved all in with 8h5h. He could have easily
coasted into the money (had he made a better decision on the
"all-in hand"), and instead got KOd on the bubble to put us
remaining 5 players into the money.
We each won a $2 prize, further boosting my bankroll by another
$0.92 (after the $1 buy-in + $0.08 entry fee) to a total of
$22.43. 1 step closer to my goal.
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