Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Krzysztof Gajek
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New SNG lesson -- bubble strategy introduction

Most people would argue that the bubble is where your money is made - check out our new lesson to see the truth of this.

New SNG lesson:
Bubble Strategy (1): Introduction    

limped potIn the previous lessons you have learned that the number of chips in SNGs and their value are not directly correlated.

Furthermore, you should already be familiar with the risk premium concept, so you know that you need extra equity on top of your pot odds to profitably call a bet.

This extra equity tends to be the highest during the phase where the last unpaid players are being eliminated. This phase of a tournament is known as the bubble phase.

In this lesson you will learn what your gameplan should be during the bubble phase, depending on your stack size relative to those of the other players. You will also learn how bubble scenarios differ between the various SNG types.

You will find specific advice regarding bubble strategy for most of the popular SNG formats in the lessons to follow.

Continuation betting,

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