Big Slick Nuts’ Best of the Poker Videos

The final installment in Rick Braddy’s Sit-and-Go Tournament Tutorial. He continues to fold his small blind, trying to set up a trap. I prefer more aggressive play heads-up and win 57% of the time, lifetime, in SNGs. By accumulating chips as best I can, it enables me to take more risks heads-up, when in most cases I’m never worse than 3-2 pre-flop.

In his recap, he makes the claim that we can make it into the money 80% of the time following the system. Not in the long run. Sorry, I like the videos, but that claim can’t be substantiated statistically. You should make it to the money 33% of the time, on average, if you’re an average player. If you’re better than average, you’ll get a few percentage points higher. At 40%, you’re making really good money - trust me! At 39% ITM, my ROI was 12% long-term, much higher for short runs where I was running 50%+ ITM. There are a couple people playing at a very high level, multi-tabling, are doing better, but they are a miniscule minority. Go to sharkscope and start checking the players you play against in your SNGs, and you’ll see what I mean.

Rick’s strategy is a winning strategy, especially his early and middle game strategy, but nowhere near his claims. Test for yourself.