SnG Strategy for for the Tournament Crew-Cup at Pokerspace. (How CC could be played)

Around level 4 or 5, we have to start playing a little looser and a more aggressively. The blinds are too large now to just be giving them up, and you'll wind up weak and short-stacked if you don't seize some initiative at this point.Raise pre-flop with any pair of 77's or better, and raise with any suited connectors higher than 10. Add AQ to your playable hands too, even if they're not suited. Don't cold-call a raise with these hands necessarily, unless they're monsters (QQ's or better).

Think about your opponent and make a decision about re-raising them or folding them based on how strong or weak you suspect they are. If you have no idea, you're probably better off folding.
If you're in late position, consider limping in with suited connectors that are 78suited or better, but only if the pot didn't get raised before you.

On the flop at this point, you're going to do one of two things depending on what kind of chip stack you have.If you're short-stacked, you're going all-in, or you're folding. You're short-stacked when you have so few chips that betting the pot will take up about half your stack or a little less.

If you have a strong stack, then play it like you played it early in the tournament - bet the pot if you have a strong hand, or fold if your hand stinks.

Bubble is when we are right on the edge of landing in the points of big value, we pretend that in Crew Cup this is top 18.

There are two approaches to playing when you're in the CC bubble (down from 18 to the final table) in the crew cup.

The first approach says that you should play extremely tight, so that you increase your chances of landing at the finale table. You can then gamble after you're at the finale table place high and hope to get lucky.

The other approach is to play very aggressively and steal as many blinds as you can from 18 players and down, because the other players are probably also playing very tight at this point.

Strategy on the Turn and on the River the big decisions in no limit Texas holdem SnG's are almost all made pre-flop and on the flop.

(When we are so deep as top 18, we probably have a good ide where the other teams are compare to us and we adjust to this).

Just concentrate on playing smart on the turn and the river, because all your decisions have been more or less made pre-flop or at flop at that point because of the limited number of chips you have.

A couple more thoughts, Middle pairs should be played aggressively on the turn if you detect weakness from your opponents on the flop. You should be able to pick up a pot or two with these. Last advice if you get short-stacked. Wait for a playable hand and go all-in preflop with it. You can come back in a SnG tournament from 100 to 200 chips (-:

Well KL, this sounds good.

However.........no matter how you play it, I be out to kick your butt tehehe

Oops !!!

Well my strategy isn't working Thanks for the tips Kan, much appreciated.