How to become "great"?

he asked how to be "great" then defined it as 20-30% ROI no higher than the $55's. I think to really make him great we better start with just getting him good. Make sense to anyone else but me? And besides, your not gonna get "great" playing SnG's. Greatness is cash games. Greatness is $2000-$4000 @ Bellagio. Greatness is WSOP bracelets and WPT titles. And most importantly, "great" SnG play is >30% ROI even though most "good" players dispute this (author makes no claims to greatness). SnG's may help you achieve greatness once down to the final nine of the main event, but please don't correalate good SnG play with poker greatness, no matter how much dough you pull. Just my opinion.

The OP asked for help becoming a great SNG player, not a great poker player.

[Moonsugar]

1) discipline
2) great hand reading ability
3) thorough understanding of "fold early/push late"
4) memorization of all-in prices
5) creativity

That is 'all' you need to be great at SnGs. Good luck [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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4) memorization of all-in prices


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can you elaborate? I'm new to SNGs, and I've got most of these down. I haven't read any books on NL, let alone tourneys.

[raptor517]

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SnG's may help you achieve greatness once down to the final nine of the main event,

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they really wont. holla