If you recall from Sit and Go Texas Holdem Tournament Poker Tutorial, Part 1, Rick Braddy was advising not to check-and-call, and continues with this advice at the start of Part 2. I’ve played many SNG poker tournaments with a raise-or-fold mindset, and it works extremely well.
Why?
It forces many of your opponents to limit the range of hands they play against you. If they know that when you’re in a hand it will cost them a lot of their chips to play, they will tighten up against you and make it easy for you to read them.
He also advises taking chances when you have the chips to do so. Understanding where you are in the tournament, what I call “Situational Awareness“, is important when doing this. He also introduces his “X-Factor” strategy, which is exactly the same as Dan Harrington’s understanding of your “M”, which Dan took from Paul Magriel.
There’s been so much poker strategy published in the last few years that much of poker strategy has become an echo chamber. But, Rick uses his “X-Factor” in a more global sense than Harrington; where Harrington uses “M” to decide how to play a short-stack, Rick uses “X” in driving decision-making at all levels – big-stack vs. big-stack, big-stack vs. little-stack.
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