Re: James 'KrazyKanuck' Worth and SNG Strategy

On Sep 30 2005 7:54 PM, Ron Dworkin wrote:

> 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

in that case its a load of bull***. The info you get for later cant ever
be worth more then losing 1/3 of your stack.

If he is talking about live sngs where you get mucho chips, i mite agree

re-re-bluffing with J6 rocks

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