So a funny thing just happened, decided to head over to pokerroom.com for a bit of SNG action. I sign up for one and as I’m sitting there for the first few hands I’m thinking to myself “This table seems pretty weak, why are they only min-raising each other?”.

Then it dawns on me, I’ve signed up for a limit tournament by mistake! Then something else dawns on me, although I’m a profitable limit ring game player I have no idea what strategy to use for a limit SNG. I feel so lost!

It’s currently level 2 and I’m down around $400 in chips already (turned a straight to be rivered by a better straight), the other players strategy so far seems to be “call and pray” so I’ll play tight and see what happens… stay tuned!

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It’s now level four and I’m starting to suspect this is a bit of a lottery, did I mention it was only a $5+$0.50 buy-in? Many people to each flop calling raises and re-raises, blinds are up to 50/100 so I expect to see the first players dropping out soon.

Oh yeah and I haven’t won a pot yet. Only played two hands though the whole tournament not including the blinds. Maybe I’m being too tight? I have been card dead though.

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First player is out, straight vs top pair. Calling and praying ;)

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Second player out, we’re down to 8. Big problem is I’m down to around 700 in chips with the blinds at 50/100.

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Scratch that, I’m out in 8th place. Got K9o in the BB, checked to see a flop 9 high. Ended up all-in on the river which was a jack, one opponent had J7o the other (who was all-in preflop) had AJo.

Can’t say I enjoyed my first limit SNG experience, personally I see limit as something much better suited to cash ring games where the blinds don’t change. That said, I really had no idea what I was doing :)

Waste of a buy-in, but an interesting experience regardless. If anyone out there can point me in the direction of some good limit tournament resources I’m always willing to learn…