I play a TAG game in DON, and a somewhat looser game the rest of the time.
In the early stages I treat it much like any other game, but try to avoid riskier situations and fold more to aggression.
In the middle stages, I will tighten up more, but also will use my better hands to steal more. The rest of the table will also tighten up, so I will fold most hands if someone else has already entered the pot, and raise most of the pots when I'm first to enter. It doesn't take much of a raise to get the rest of the table to fold.
In the late stages, if I'm playing a hand, I'll raise about half the time and shove the other half. If I'm short stacked and there are no significantly weaker stacks, I'll wait until no one else has entered the pot yet, and then shove any pair or any suited face card. If I'm first to enter the hand and if I have a mid-large stack, I will usually shove any pair or high ace since the blinds are usually very compared to to stacks.
Of course all of this is dependent on the exact situation.
In the early stages I treat it much like any other game, but try to avoid riskier situations and fold more to aggression.
In the middle stages, I will tighten up more, but also will use my better hands to steal more. The rest of the table will also tighten up, so I will fold most hands if someone else has already entered the pot, and raise most of the pots when I'm first to enter. It doesn't take much of a raise to get the rest of the table to fold.
In the late stages, if I'm playing a hand, I'll raise about half the time and shove the other half. If I'm short stacked and there are no significantly weaker stacks, I'll wait until no one else has entered the pot yet, and then shove any pair or any suited face card. If I'm first to enter the hand and if I have a mid-large stack, I will usually shove any pair or high ace since the blinds are usually very compared to to stacks.
Of course all of this is dependent on the exact situation.
BearPlay said:
I like to switch it up, keep opponents confused
It also depends on their stack sizes. Say if they have 12 big blinds or more, I'd raise maybe 3BBs, if they have less I'd put more pressure on them and go for 4/5BBs or put them in an all in position.
I've also learnt to get good reads on opponents, which 8/10 works brilliantly.
Say for example they hit the check button really quick, chances are they are holding nothing, which opens the door for a bluff
Here's an old link that provides a complete DON strategy....
http://www.onlinefreeplaypoker.com/double-up-or-nothing-sng-poker-strategy/
It works pretty good.
http://www.onlinefreeplaypoker.com/double-up-or-nothing-sng-poker-strategy/
It works pretty good.
Swickster007 said:
This was a good strategy pre-BF, but now with the DON's having huge popularity and increased player errr, skill... the "fold your way to the money" doesn't work anymore, certainly not at Carbon. Most of the DON's I play have a few multi-tabling grinders at each table, whom I've learned to exploit, but almost always the table plays extremely tightly, with only a couple of people donking in with junk. As the blinds increase, steals are vital, as well as opened ranges IP. With 6 or 7 to go, nearly always it becomes a survival contest of shove or fold.
dasher said:
Good to know. I can only imagine what kind of strategy is necessary for a Bovada triple-up. Sounds tempting!
to mickmurr19 what site are u playing sng at? and latly ive been playing late at night cuase I work late and when I get on Americas card room bout 12am theres none on the site I play the on demand .50 sng and its only 15 20 playersd and top 9 to 13 places paid its easy to cash in the money but I wish they had more players on at that time
ive been on a rollercoaster ill play small 3$ sng win 1 or two then feel like upping my game so ill try a $5 or $10 game and lose then go back to $3 sng win my money back I really don't like playing small $sng but I guess that's my best chance of winning lol
MickMurrr19 said:
This game is for those players who want to get a lot of adrenaline for a minimum period of time.
Right decision in SNG tournaments will not play many hands, and only play hands monsters. You need to master the tight-aggressive style of play. It involves extremely tight game when choosing hands and extremely aggressive play in a situation where you have a good hand. SNG tournaments are good that when you have a monster, one of the opponents will always respond to your bid.
I have had the same problems running DON's and thanks to all the advice on this page I will take it with me to the tables and hope to see improvements and GOODGAMEME your post really stuck with me and it made me realize I do try to be a hero to much and I will slow it down and see what happens!
Thx to everyone
I have had the same problems running DON's and thanks to all the advice on this page I will take it with me to the tables and hope to see improvements and GOODGAMEME your post really stuck with me and it made me realize I do try to be a hero to much and I will slow it down and see what happens!
I have had the same problems running DON's and thanks to all the advice on this page I will take it with me to the tables and hope to see improvements and GOODGAMEME your post really stuck with me and it made me realize I do try to be a hero to much and I will slow it down and see what happens!
Scrover said:
pretty much agree with the above except I really, really don't think you need anywhere close to 100 buy ins to play DoNs. maybe if you're learning 40-50 is a good safe cushion, but anything where an average player is cashing 50% of the time implies very low variance compared to, basically any other type of game. I'd be comfortable playing DoNs with about 15 buy ins. Somebody said cashing more than 60-65% is unsustainable. I disagree. I'm with the guy who said shoot for 75%.
I agree with everything above....now, you're not going to be folding AA a lot preflop...but this is the 1 type of game where that situation is more likely to arise. again, still rare and highly situation dependent but it WILL come up if you're paying attention. AA is 80% to win, meaning 20% to lose. if you are 2nd in chips and the chip leader open jams into you and there are 2 micro stacks left, and you are on the bubble, just fold your AA. 20% of the time you'll lose here and by folding you're virtually guaranteed to cash.goodgameme said:
good early game strategy. try to maintain as much of your starting stack as possible until the bubble. then, by that time you'll either be jamming or folding preflop....OR you might have enough chips for min raising. usually for me, I'm at the stack size where push or fold makes more sense.Bentley540 said:
yes agree.Swickster007 said:
also, even though it's called double or nothing...if you start with a 1500 stack you often don't need 3000 to make the money. I often squeak in there with 2,200 or even less if there is a micro stack. also, some players don't seem to realize they should basically stop playing when they get like $4,000 chips and they defend their blinds with hands like KJ and 77 and end up going broke....it's crazy to watch but I've seen it happen so many times. (OK, once it was me.....)