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It really feels like walking a tight rope when you are doing it right. You can almost play it completely blind... Supposedly Annette 15 did win one of those 180 player SNG's playing blind. I believe it's very possible.

In 9 player SNG's, I felt like 50-100 was the round to start opening up my game, in 18+ I felt like 75-150 was the round to start opening up.

The reason I think GM would own is because he is so good at getting people to hand him stacks in cash.

CDL does this strategy well, raising about 2.5 times the big blind as a steal, atleast I thought he was doing a good job in the The Main's Full Ring Challenge Main Event

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Thanks. I'm pretty sure 3x is excessive in many sng and tournament spots, but thats only me learning from experience and picking up on tendencies from watching others play. I never really read the MTT or SNG strat so I don't really know "proper" strategy or whatever you want to call it. Basically, I think raising the least you can to take down the blinds is the goal since you will never really have any problems getting it AI if you want to given that by level 3 the average stack is 30 BB (if everyone is still in) and even with a minraise you can just 3/4 pot 3 streets and get that AI if you want. Just learn to manipulate pots (more by betsizing rather than checking which is the way we do it in cash games most of the time).