Poker Tips

Introduction

If you’ve ever wanted to be able to play a true online poker tournament, just like a poker tournament in a bricks and mortar casino with cash prizes, then keep an eye out for online Sit ‘n’ Go poker tournaments. They could be advertised as SitnGo or just SNG – but they all add up to the same thing in that you’ll get a cash prize according to the tournament position you finish in, which typically means being one of the final three poker players.

Advantages of Sit ‘n’ Go Poker

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You can of course enter any one of the thousands of online poker tournaments to test your skills acquired from playing in straight cash poker games, but the new Sit ‘n’ Go poker tournaments have two advantages that might be particularly attractive, especially to any poker tournament novices. First they are invariably single poker table tournaments, meaning that there will typically be an absolute maximum of 10 players and that the event can be concluded in a relatively short space of time – this feature being highly desirable if you’re playing online poker on a mobile device whilst travelling or away from home. Secondly, buy-ins can be as low as $1 making them ideal for the rookie poker player or, for more experienced poker players can rise to several hundreds of dollars.

Sit n’ Go poker games

So, what can you expect in a typical Sit ‘n’ Go poker tournament? Regardless of how much the buy-in is, everyone will be given the same size stack of poker chips to play with. Thereafter, essentially, to win it you need to be the ‘last man standing’. Exactly how much of a cash prize you will win depends on how the organizers want to distribute the cash prizes. They could just award one single ‘100%’ prize to the winner, but will more typically hand out a 50% prize to the poker winner, 30% to the runner up and 20% to third place. Of course should the organizer decide to distribute prizes to the top 5 places or even for everyone that competes – expect those percentages to drop.