This is the third segment of a four-part series, the average poker player provides the necessary knowledge to a beginner to a Shark to be from. In Part 3 we talk about the short-handed game.
In the second part of this series we talked about the game at medium blinds there and how you should switch from standard tag game to a looser, more aggressive style of play.
It is now time to bring this style and also switch to hyper-aggressive. Now the fun really begins. Meanwhile, the game short-handed, meaning that only four or five players at the table, and you are one of them.
Probably all the players are now short. The average stack is only about 12 BBs. That means for everyone: Shortly applies only push or fold.
Now you can make a profit. The average player plays in this phase of the tournament so bad that it is sometimes laugh. Once you have mastered this phase better than average, you will have the long term positive expectation.
Post-flop play will now lose important because you will only see a few flops. You said as two options: push or fold. For heaven's sake, push!
You want to win the SnG. You can not limp into the money. If you try, you lose the positive expectation. So you need to develop the killer instinct and eliminate the players who are happy to come into money somehow.
A scary poker player is vulnerable. Everyone wants to make the money, and no one plays to resign. You are no exception.
Their goal however is the first place. Therefore, you have to think long term. Focus on play, correct and ignore the results.
If you play correctly, the success will stop by itself.
Go full speed
As you know, the first three places are paid a SnG. So if only four or five players at the table, you reach the bubble. Will almost certainly be several players sitting at the table with small stacks, who believe that now ultra-tight playing somehow sneak into the money can be.
In spite of such a style can be short-stacked are you are wrong. It is now and it time to play more aggressively not tighter. Short-handed means to play, to play high blinds. With an average stack of 12 BBs, you lose 10% of your stack with each lap.
When the table is short-handed, the blinds come rapidly back to you and decimate your stack. It is better to go with any hand in all-than to see the ausblinden. Ausblinden never leave you!
The action is now reaching its climax. Steal, as often as possible. If you can identify a player who is trying to limp into the money, you take his blind - he will not defend it. If someone is not impressed by raises, can you take this player back against something.
I will not explain in detail here, which are suitable for pushing hands. I prefer to describe the situations in which one is All-in installed.
My advice is this: Put your stack is not on a coin flip. If you believe that it amounts to a coin flip, fold and slide better the next hand blind all-in.
Rely on the fold equity to increase your stack. Your hand value is only interesting if you are called. To put it more time to say very clearly: fold equity is more important than hand value!
Some examples:
There are four players at the table and the blinds are at $ 150 / $ 300 Your stack is $ 2900th The UTG player goes all-in with $ 3,200. The button folds. Hold 6 
6 
in SB.
6 in SB.What do you do? Fold. You can hope at best a coin flip. In the worst case of divorce. There is no reason, your entire chip stack on a coin flip set. It is better to wait and then seize the initiative.
Another example:
Four players at the table, blinds $ 150 / $ 300 Your stack is $ 2900th They sit and go UTG with A
8 all-in. The button calls and the blinds fold. The button shows 5 5 .
8 all-in. The button calls and the blinds fold. The button shows 5 5 .OK. If you are caught in a coin flip. If you have played so wrong?
No. You have a good BBs As with less than 10 pushed. Of course, you have hoped for a fold. The button, however, opted for the duel. This is perfectly in order.
Since the two blinds have folded, are now $ 450 additional chips in the pot. Thus, the odds are better than the 1:1 one coin flips.
Does not this mean that the call with pocket fives was right? In a way, yes, but so that we only look at that hand in detail, not the game as a whole. They will show in this situation is not always A-7. Often you have a better pocket pair that hits the opponent.
The crucial point here is that your opponent has no fold equity. He can win the hand in only one way: in the showdown. If you push with A-7, you can win the pot without a showdown, if all players fold.
A final example
Only four players at the table, the blinds are at $ 150 / $ 300 They have the smallest stack with $ 1,800. Go all-in UTG with 8 
9 . The button quickly called with A K . The blinds fold.
9 . The button quickly called with A K . The blinds fold.Oh, you were called by a monster. Terrible is not it?
Wrong. You are only 40-60 underdog to AK, and this disadvantage is the additional blinds in the pot outweighed by.
So you are not in any bad situation. Two unpaired cards are never clear favorite against two other unpaired cards. So do not be angry if it goes wrong. They have played correctly with respect to the Fold Equitsy your moves.
Herein lies the key to SnGs in the late phase. Be the aggressor. The aggressor can always win in two ways, the caller on just one. Have you never ausgeblindet to. That would be the same as you would give up.
Do not try to limp into the money, but put you through and win.
Well, sometimes you have to call
The aggressor to be, indeed is the key to a good ending, but you can not fold every hand, if they are not the original raiser. Sometimes a call is correct. However, there are some things you need to think about before you allow yourself a passive call.
If you have a monster to understand the call by itself push your chips into the middle and hope for the best. I speak here about the borderline cases.
Look at your stack. If you are chip leader with more than 20 BBs, you can of course be more generous than if you have only seven BBs. If you have not put any money, you will not frivolous riskeiren a big part of it.
As a rule, never cold call you should do if you do not think clearly and to be ahead to get the right odds.
And another example:
Three players at the table, the blinds are at $ 200 / $ 400 They sit in the BB with $ 6500 (after you have set the BB). The button folds and the SB is a total of $ 1,200 all.in. They hold 8 9 .
9 .What do you do? Call! You have already invested $ 400th With the $ 1200 of your opponents are $ 1800 in the pot, and you have to pay only $ 800. You get 2:1 on your call.
The SB has in this situation with almost every hand go all-in. Your hand looks good against his range and you get 2:1 pot odds. Your hand looks bad only against a higher pocket pair than 2:1, but such a hand is very unlikely.
More likely, you are ahead 60:40. As you can not eliminate risk, you will earn with 60:40 and 2:1 odds situations in the long run money.
Another example:
Three players, blind is $ 200/400. They sit in the BB with $ 2400th The button folds and the SB goes for $ 3,000 all-in. You have A T .
T .What do you do? Call! Here you have to risk all their chips. Her hand is much stronger than most of the range of your opponent. Even tight players will be pushing in this situation with almost any ace, and they have a well above average hand.
A weak As you can fold here, but AT is the call justified.
Although I speak generally against simple calls, this situation must mention yet. Sometimes I'm amazed about how players fold hands with incredible odds. As a rule of thumb: If the odds are better than 2:1, you need a pretty good reason not to call.
