[eastbay]

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Hi eastbay,

As a general rule, the larger the stacks relative to the starting blinds, the more hands (and thus more decision-points) will occur in the SNG. So skillful decision-making has a greater edge, simply because that edge will come into play more times. If you have that edge -- and from your posts I think you do -- it's to your advantage to keep the pots smaller (when you can), and give yourself chances to make good post-flop decisions. Basically, a skillful player loathes a shoot-out, because then it's all up to the dealer.

Cris

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Cris,

That all makes sense. Maybe something at play here is that I've done some work on the mathematics of preflop all-in play. That probably is the strongest part of my game because I've done the most thinking about it. So maybe I'm a little bit of a shoot-out specialist at this point.

Maybe the thing to do here is to practice my ring game before taking another shot at the $50 level.

(And thanks for the vote of confidence. I'm certain I have one hell of a long way to go at this game yet.)

eastbay