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Explanation of Sit and Go

Unlike in cash games, players are not free to cash out or rebuy at any time. 🧬 Sit and go entrants continue playing until they run out of chips. Prizes are awarded based on the position a 🧬 player finishes the event. While the last man standing wins the entire sit and go, prizes are often awarded to 🧬 players who outlast the rest of field: 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place etc.

Sit and goes come in a variety 🧬 of different styles with different rules and structures. Here is a short list of common structures -

Heads Up, 9-man, 180-man 🧬 etc etc – Describes the number of entrants required before the sit and go begins.

Hyper, Turbo, Hyper-Turbo, regular, Deep – 🧬 The exact meaning depends on the poker room, but these are references to the tournament structure. Turbo tournaments typically involve 🧬 starting with relatively shallow stacks along with fast increases in the blind levels. Deep tournaments are the opposite; deep starting 🧬 stacks and relatively slow increases in blind levels.

Double or Nothing – Half of the registrants double their buy-in amount while 🧬 the other half walk away with nothing.

Satellite – A tournament where winners compete for entries into a bigger tournament. In 🧬 events where more than one ticket is up for grabs, most (if not all) of the winners receive the same 🧬 prize (i.e. a ticket).

Winner Takes All – The first place finisher takes down the entire prize pool. Second place gets 🧬 nothing.

Like cash games, sit and goes can be 9-handed, 6-handed or heads-up (and any other amount of players per table).

Example 🧬 of Sit and Go used in a sentence -> The classic sit and go format runs with 10 players and 🧬 awards prizes to the top 3 finishers.

How to Use Sit and Go as Part of Your Poker Strategy

Strategy approach to 🧬 tournaments (i.e. sit and goes) are notably different than strategy approach to cash games.

For a start, not all chips are 🧬 equal in sit and goes. A technique known as ICM (independent chip model) needs to be employed in order to 🧬 correctly assign chips a monetary value. Depending on the exact sit and go situation it may even be correct to 🧬 fold pocket Aces (in Hold’em) preflop as a result of ICM considerations. See the glossary entry under ICM and Bubble 🧬 for more information on this topic.

Sit and go players spend a larger amount of time playing with shallow stacks than 🧬 cash game players do. Cash game players routinely rebuy to keep their stack at 100bb while sit and go players 🧬 will frequently find themselves playing at stack depths of 20bb or lower. Understanding the maths behind short-stack scenarios is hence 🧬 extremely important for sit and go players.