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Week 10. No Limit Texas Holdem SNG Tournaments: How to Activate the Push-Fold Ordnance

ROI = -3.8%
ITM = 39.1%
Total tournaments - 69
$/Tourney = -$0.08
Final bankroll = $49.15

As usual the problem is the still the bubble game. When there were already 4-5 players my stack was small enough. But was it small enough to move all the checks to the middle of the table?

In the professional players' blogs and at the forum 2+2 I found two opinions: start stacking everything as soon as you have 15BB left; or move all the checks to the middle of the table as you have 10BB or less left.

I made use of the first variant during the previous weeks. During the last two weeks I prefer the second one. The reason is very simple. I don't play well with ICM. And with the uber-short stack it's much harder to make a mistake. Try to simulate some of the similar situations in SNGWIZ and you will see that it's better to bid all the checks having junk cards in your hands.

There is one more reason to make use of this tactics. While my stack is relatively big I can steal blinds without an important risk as I get the opportunity. Starting stacking all-in at 15-16BB in most tournaments deprived me from such a possibility.

And finally – watch the runners' stacks! While playing yesterday at Full Tilt I stopped fourth with 1300 stack as one of the runners had only 290 left with 120/240 blinds. I should have stayed a couple of rounds to win much money.