Re: James 'KrazyKanuck' Worth and SNG Strategy

This relates to your post a few days (a week+?) ago about taking edges
early in SNGs. Certainly in the SNGs I play ($20-$50) there is no need
to do so, basic tight early and aggressive late SNG strategy is
optimal. I will risk chips early in the right spot - chips are chips
after all (a weak player limping in will get raised by me on the button
for examle), but generally it is tight play through the first few
rounds. I didn't respond to you post since I have no experience
playing $100+ SNGs, but it certainly does seem reasonable to try to
accumulate chips early if you can be sure that everyone will playing
tight waiting for push or fold time - you will need those chips that
you get now to secure an advantage later (which you would often have
anyway in a lowe buy-in event just by playing basic correct strategy).
Anyway, while your analysis of the situation makes sense, Worth pretty
clearly states that he is playing with a lot of small raises early not
to build his stack, but to get info for later - he goes so far as to
say that if he burns a few hundred chips that is made up for by the
information that he gets. Weird.

Ron

Ron

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