Ideal seating position in sng is easy right... I want the passive player on my left and the LAG on my right. Generally speaking I want predictable players on my left with less predictable players on my right.

ok that works for a cash game, but what are general thoughts on sng's.

tight multi tablers are fine in early and mid stage, as they all play the same stratagy, but in the late stages they split into 2 groups,

blind stealers and non blind stealers.

whilst both groups tend to have a tight calling range (for AI raises) in the late stages (dependant on stack size). I always want the blind stealers on my left and non stealers on my right.

Loose players in early stages tend to nearly always be blind stealers late on, so I tend to want them on my left.

so basically I want people that wont attack my blinds on my right, and those that I can steal from on my left.

the main problem is that non blind stealers tend to be the best people to steal blinds from, and looser players tend to defend their blinds more loosely...

so if (like you can on some sites) you can choose your seating position, who should you have on your left, and who on your right?

AND how important is it really? should you really just be concentrating on stack sizes and table aggression etc.

thanks for your thoughts.

Great question. I'm admittedly not much of a sit n go expert, but in Cash games I always prefer the action players to my immediate right. I prefer to have good players to my left so i can shut them out of action with raises and isolation plays against the fish. I can't imagine it is to much different is Sit N Go's, but I will defer to the Sit N Go experts for a definitive answer.

Jason

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Great question 4king.

Personally I think having the decent players to your left is better at the bubble, my reasoning is that they call tighter (and 'bad calls' are hugely -$v at the bubble) and push to steal your blinds very light from the bubble.

In the earlier stages you can easily fold to a 3bet from these guys, since they are folding pre without a decent holding.

Party is the main site I know where you choose your seat - is this where you are playing?

Cheers, Mark

yep party it is...! dont tell anyone one but the standard of play is so much worse than a site like FTP even at low stakes.

I have played with some options and decent to the left is definately working out the best.

thanks for your thoughts

Lol, yeah - Stars / FT are much tougher, actually heard Fox on PxF today saying that the FT $20's are as tough as the Party $200s used to be back in the day.

There are a certain % of players with the attitide that 'other sites (than Stars / FT) do not matter'... my personal take on this is 'great!' more fish for me at Carbon / UB / Titan! Though I do play at both of the tougher sites sometimes (I'm strictly recreational only these days).

GL

Mark

Well my question is, are you allowed to pick your sit n go seat? Sit n gos seem to be a big grind out session for me, I love cash gam,es, leave when I want, pick my seat when I want, rebuy over and over when i want, .... probabaly doesn't help but I agree with goodkarmas answer in a perfect world....

The only site I know of where you can select your seat in an SNG is on PartyPoker which US players cannot play on. Also, it would be a little difficult to tell which opponents are aggressive or passive at the start of a tourney, really the only way you could tell is if you play with them often. I personally think any tournament needs to have randomized seating, although I think PartyPoker is the only exception to this rule I have seen.

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Seating position in cash games tend to be important, as I learned one day when I noticed that people kept moving to open seats to my left.

This fact was pointed out to me by an old coot while having a beer & snadwich after a tournament we were both in. We had both been in the same cash game the day before. I qualified into this tournament and after I sat down, one guy sort of eyeballs me, and moves to my left. I dress kind of formal, am in good shape and 6'2" so what signals that sent to this guy I do not know, but after he reraised a few of my hands I knew one thing "this guy has to go! " I had the pleasure of taking half his stack (my chips anyways ) and watching the rest of the pirhanas at the table take him out later.

For improving players, I think that seating is not as important as identification.

Identifying players by type, identifying their ranges of hands, identifying if they are loose or aggressive or both.

If you are in any doubt about the difference between 'Loose' and 'Aggressive', read Justin Bonomo's excellent article on the differences

www.bluffmagazine.com/magazine/Aggression-and-Looseness-are-NOT-the-Same-Thing!-Justin-Bonomo-888.htm

But I digress ... on the subject of seating, identification trumps seating, because once you identify a LAG player unfortunately to your left, you can trap this weasel by limping with a serious hand or calling his frequent reraises with the right kind of hand and then bet into him forcing him to make a hand. Granted, this is a little too violent for most players, but you are in the SNG to win and if you have a serious impediment like a LAG player on your immediate left, you have to deal with it by modifying your game plan.

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