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especially out of position.
􀂾 Cold Calling Raises in Multi-way pots
􀂾 Post-Flop Play; Calling too much and Bluffing too much.
􀂾 Bet Size errors, Pot Control and Pot Odds.
o Playing too many hands, especially out of position…
In an average SNG your opponents will be playing a lot of hands, some as many as 40% of all hands dealt. This means that the flop will be seen by anywhere between 3 and 5 players on average. Their logic is that it is cheap to see the flop and potentially hit a monster. While this can happen the risks taken do not equal the chips gained! Let us look at a couple of examples.
Example 1; You are first to act on the very first hand of a SNG, you are dealt two black 10’s – not a bad starting hand but not a great one. You decide to raise 3 times the big blind to 60, everyone has 1500 chips to start…here is what happens.

- 3rd to act is Clive the Calling Station, he has KJ of hearts and calls because they are ‘Sooted’
- Fred the Fish in 5th Position has 44 and calls, the first 2 might be bluffing!
- Aggressive Andy is 6th and calls with 78 suited; he read in a book that suited connectors are good hands…
- The button has A6 off-suit but is getting 4/1 on his call and has position so calls too.
- The Big Blind has the mediocre Q9 off-suit, however he only has to put in 40 chips into a pot of 250 so makes the call.