Sit & Go $20, 10 seats. Starting chipcount: 1500. Blinds increases every 7 minutes.

Calling 87s (suited) in wrong position (two after BB), BB raises to 100 (5x BB) so I fold. Lucky for him two 8s show up on the flop and a 7 on the river .

Same thing, folds AQ in a late position and QQ4 shows up on the flop. The stakes where at 10x the BB preflop…

Open straight draw try, no luck on the turn and a 270 bet after that card so I folded. Chipcount 1370.

7 players left, blinds at 20/30. Chipcount 1130.

Just missed flush-draw, up and down straight draw plus a pairs. Unfortunately a queen of spades showed up on river… Down to 800 now. Screenshot below:

Yea. Won an all-in. BB with 85 and hit my 5 with a 25Q flop. The big stacks bets the pott, 200, but I can feel the bluff so I go all-in. He calls with just 8k and I win after flop/river. Chipcount 1700.

6 players left, blinds at 100/200. Quite even game with two big stacks and four around 1500 chips.

Calls with the position after SB with J10, manage to bet out the BB on flop with an inside straight draw. The Buyin tactic succeds

4 Players left. Chipcount 1700. Now the hard stage begins. Two big stacks and two small ones.

No good cards at all… Down to 960 after losing some blinds on big raises.

Steals some blinds, all-in preflop with K8s. Chipcount 1400.

Goes all-in BB with AK against a raise with 33… no luck. Am out in fourth place. Hate that position…

Summary: Well, quite good. Played many hands (20%) but didnt hit anything good. Had no great pocket cards either, best one was 99 and AK in the end. Came out with a solid stack (1700) in the end, but didnt have the luck. Maybe I could have had waited a little longer but on the other had he could have raised with AQ/AJ so it was a good call. Next time maybe…

Had a great night yestoday playing poker online with a friend, succeding in increasing my bankroll from $120 to $160 after strong play at the end of the night in SG tournaments.

Tried my new tactic all night, and it works quite good in SG  games (Sit & Go 10-seats). The chance for a double up early on is much greater then if you play tight, after the double up the best tactic seems to be stealing blinds. Going all-in with  coin-flip odds just ends bad in the end, making the board more even. Instead it’s easier to steal blind and force all-in with bad cards.

Sit & Go 10-seats is quite small, but I think this tactic will work for me with bigger fields too, like 20 or 30 player tables.

Slight changes to the tactic:
1. Full tables:
- Buy-in ratio of max 50%, min 20%. Ideally around 30%.
- Call out of position, 2-3 seats behind small blind without raise before. Call with nearly any cards.

Many poker players go the safe road to victory, the tight-aggressive (TAG) kind of style. This tactic is more like Loose-aggressive (LAG), but with my own touch.

My ”Buy-in” tactics (LAG)

Okay, here’s the first draft of how I should play in a tournament:
1. Full tables:
- Buy-in ratio of max 50%, min 30%.
- Hands that will be played: Suited connectors, connectors, suited hands, pocket pairs. And other hands when the position is right and the blinds are low compared to our stack.
- Here’s the trick. Only play with really good hands after the flop. Two pairs, three of a kind and more. Top Pair with low kicker is not a hand to bet much on. Discipline and patience is needed here.

The goal here is to double up as soon as possible, with unpredictable hands on flop like two pair and three of a kind, and then slow play them if possible. If 1/3 of our stack is gone, then we will have to play a little more tight.

2. Half full table medium/high blinds (final table or 10-seats torunament):
- Depending on our stack, either play tight or call big blind with a quite wide range of hands if many players are in.

The problem here is obvious. You can’t play LAG all the way in a tournament, at least not if you have a small stack or medium stack. Go for the big pots here is the key in this stage I think, with a LAG tactic. Either just call big blind with a medium hand or raise alot with a strong one (JJ and up, AK and maybe AQ depending on competition). And ofcourse fold any hand not hitting the unpredictable hands, unless there’s not some special reason for not doing it.

3. Heads up
- Switch over to a really aggresive kind of play. Big raises preflop on semi good hands, and above all read your opponent. Is he tight or aggresive? If tight: Do not call all-ins without a really good hand, and beaware of raises. Is aggresive, slow play good hands. Draw out the money. This actually requires some kind of LAG play, make the buy-in and try to hit a the flop good.

In these games I will play Poker Online at this casino and others.

Hi all. This is my personal poker blog, I’m a recrenational player from Scandinavian. With this blog I’m exploring a new tactic, ”the buy-in tactic” I call it, or just call alot pre-flop. I will here polish the tactic and set up some strict rules to follow. Have a look how it’s going today!

There are many and varied types of poker strategy for playing the game. Each of them has merit when it comes to particular playing style and individual gaming sessions. One of the best strategies in some situations is the ”Chicken” strategy.

The intriguingly named chicken strategy is best employed when playing online poker against an opponent that seems weak in general or only wants to bet or raise when they have an excellent hand. They generally fold or call the rest of the time.

What exactly is the chicken strategy you might ask? Generally you, the would-be strategist, will have to recognize the chicken, a weak or overly cautious player. Once you have done so it is time to continually put gambling pressure on the chicken in question.

The simplest version of this is to raise against the opponents blinds and wait to see if they’ll be too cautious so you can snatch the hand quickly. This works well until they get tired of this and start betting back, or another player realizes what you are doing and sticks their finger in your proverbial cool-aid to try and get in on the action.

To avoid this it may be prudent to relax a while and seem to call off your assaults every few hands. Don’t set any specific intervals; just be aware that others might recognize what you are doing.

A few more advanced versions of this clever poker theory involve what is known as the limp check, or check-raise. This can be a bit more difficult to pull off and if the other player was getting wise to you already they may use this as a means to draw you out and win a bigger hand.

Generally, though, later in the hand this ”chicken” player will usually check to you and you are then able to simply place a normal bet that you’ll usually win outright. The normal weak player will assume you had a strong hand, and it’s entirely possible that you may have had nothing but garbage.

The purpose of chicken strategy is to constantly be on top of the ”chicken”, the weaker player. With careful consideration of their actions you can normally come out on top with proper levels of aggression or simple minimal risk strategies that allow you to swoop in and carry off the pot most of the time.

It should be noted that while this is perfectly fine for poker tournament play, doing this with your friends and relatives at friendly in-house games, legal or not in your area, can lead to bad blood between you all. It is a smart strategy to make money, but an even better one if you wish to lose friends.