Phil Gordon Early sit-and-go strategy.

Here's a Phil Gordon article (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker/columns/story?columnist=gordon_phil&id=2243566) from ESPN.com on early SNG play. Nothing that great, but it's interesting to read his perspective. Hide it from the fish.

[dseiko]

The blinds at full-tilt rise slowly, anyone know how long the tournaments take there? Also, in the beggining of his second paragraph he says that levels are 6 minutes, yet he says that is about 15 hands. Does the play at full-tilt go that much faster or is this an exaggeration?

I don't play on Full Tilt--- but I would guess that if the levels are 6 minutes each, then he is speaking of a "true average" of hands/level over the course of an entire tournament... meaning-- taking into account fewer hands/level early and more hands/level late...

If that is indeed what he means, I don't think it's a very useful bit of info.

[Pudge714]

All levels are 6mins each SNG takes 60-80 minutes.

[tewall]

I found it ineresting that he identified 20xBB as the stage at which he will no longer limp in.

[SCfuji]

youll be lucky if you dont hit the one hour break.