05 May 2010 ~ Comments Off

PokerStars SnG’s

For everyone that craves some mind-boggling SNG action, online poker colossus Poker Stars is a dream come true. There is excellent action pretty much around the clock in every poker game known to man. In fact, PS.com SnG’s are so good that they are the benchmark of the internet poker ecosystem.

The PokerStars Sit-N-Go lobby, for reasons which will be later explained, can be a jumbled mess. Appreciatively, it’s very easy to find your way around and zero in on exactly what you want to play, aided by the utilitarian Sit n Go Filter. This filter will help you to precisely select, using check boxes, exactly which games you want to see. You can make selections among: the Game Types; whether it’s fixed limit, no limit or pot limit games you would like to see; what buy-ins you’d like to see; currencies available; if you want to see normal games, Turbo games or Knockout games; the amount of players per table; and if you want to see only the registering and upcoming games, running ones, or just the completed ones. Navigating through this convoluted mess of a lobby is pretty easy, thanks to the Sit-N-Go filter.

The next topic is the buy-in ranges and traffic of the available games. Poker Stars Sit & Go’s are available in a wide variety of buy-ins, which suit every bankroll no matter how big or small. Buy-ins range from $1.20 up to $5600. But even at these highest of levels, you will be able to find a few running during the day, which is a lot more than you can say about other rooms which may offer large stakes Sit-N-Goes which literally never ever run. Realistically, you will always find a ton of action at the $200 buyins with it increasing logarithmically under that at PokerStars.com, with that number changing to around $600 for the HU SnG’s. This makes massive multi tabling SnG’s not burdensome at all, and makes it extremely easy to clear whatever bonuses you might have gotten.

And now we will go over the game variety. Dp you recall that we said earlier that the PokerStars Sit-N-Go lobby resembled a Rubik’s cube? It was with good reason, and it will be explained now.

Delivering you a whole arsenal of games at your fingertips in the SnG format, PokerStars truly hit it out of the park in this as well. You will be able to find the staples such as Texas Hold’em and Omaha Hold’em in Fixed Limit, Pot Limit and No Limit variants readily available for you to register in them to take your seat. You will also find Sit & Go’s in less popular poker variants such as Draw (5-Card, 7-Card, Single draw and Triple draw), Badugi, Horse, and Bobby’ Room favorite Stud.. Mixed Hold’em is available as well. In a nutshell, whatever game you think of playing at the moment available in the Poker Stars SnG lobby.

And that is all fun and games (pun intended), now how about the actual Sit-N-Go specific game types? Poker Stars has a plethora up its sleeves, as expected. The most popular ones currently on the site are the 9-mans, but certain buy-ins offer 10-player full ring tables as well. 6-Max, 4-Max and HU games are also par for the course. Standard speed games, which typically have 10 minute blinds, as well as Turbo speed games which have 5 minute blinds populate the lobby like fish in the ocean. Also prevalent are Double-Or-Nothing tourneys, with 10 players entering and 5 sharing the pool, and Knockout tourneys, in which the buy-in is increased to add something to the “Knockout Pool”. Knock someone out in a Knockout tournament and you will be awarded some money immediately, typically 25% the actual buy-in. Eliminate 4 people and you are free-rolling in the tournament!

There are also Step tournaments, which are found in the special “Satellite” tab. Step tournaments play just like regular tournaments, except the payouts will allow you to play other steps. You should try and get to the last step, which is Step 6 for Dollar currency steps and Step G for Euro currency steps: win the highest available step and you will win a tourney entry to a live tournament somewhere, which can range from a smaller $2000 buy-in tourney to a larger €10,000 buy-in one. The sky is truly the limit. You can obviously start at Step 1 which is $7.50 SNG’s or Step A for the very low sum of €2.20. You can also use FPPs in exchange for entries all the way up to a step 3. Yup, you can qualify for the biggest live events that run today for pocket change!

And as if that was enough reason to start playing all your Sit-N-Go’s on Poker Stars, you know it gets better. And indeed it does: SNGs on PS.com are possible the best way for for a small stakes player to clear the sign-up bonus you are given! PokerStars.com has an excellent sign up bonus for new players which is the equivalent of 600 bucks (in Euro’s too, and also in Pounds), with 90 days given to clear it. Basically, it’s like this: $600 is an adequate roll to grind the $6.50 turbo’s, and probably very adequate to grind the $11′s too. You would need to clear an amount 17 times the bonus in VPP in order to release it: you will earn $10 chunks every single time you amass 170 VPPs.

For every dollar raked in tourney play you will get 5-and-a-half VIP Player Points. This means that if you are playing the $6.50’s exclusively, you’d need (10,200/2.75) = about 3700 tourneys to do so. Doing just 50 tourneys a day, the bonus is entirely yours in less than 65 days. Bump the level up to the $11′s, and after 1850 games it’s all yours, which again using a volume of about 50 games per day would take you just around 33 days to clear. This is very easily done as you can see, and we are totally ignoring the possibility of you getting good results and moving up as a consequence, which would require even less time to clear.

As you can see, PokerStars trounces the opposition in most if not every single Sit-N-Go department you could be looking for. It does not matter how high or how low you play, or which games you would like to grind or at what time of the day you want to grind… PokerStars will always have you covered!  Register your new account with this PokerStars Marketing Code and make your first deposit with a PokerStars bonus code for the $600 bonus, free from PokerStars!

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