10 Secnod SnG instructions (Very little meaningful content)

[Sam T.]

So I was maybe fifteen minutes into a $20 SnG when I got two pieces of bad news:

1) The in-laws were here early.
2) Their car was stuck in the snow around the corner.

So I had to give my wife instructions on how to play while I was gone, which would be between ten minutes and the rest of the tourney.

I went with:

1. Push any pair.
2. Push any Ace-face
3. Fold everthing else.

As it turns out, she built a respectable stack before getting called by KJ when she held AK, and a J flopped. (Hard to tell weather she was looking a bit laggy, or the other guy made a lousy call.)

What advice would you give?

[soko]

You can't expect more really with sombody who's never played before and has no real strategy. First off I wouldn't have her employ this strategy until level 3/4, just fold all non AA,KK,QQ,AK, I would have also said that after you build a big stack ~2000+ to just fold everything to buy time until it's short handed then reusme push/fold. If the money was really important to you you could have also said to not make any calls or folds until 3-4 seconds before the time ran out, would get boring but it might have been enough time for you to get back.