We have looked at the optimum strategy for the opening stages of a sit&go and concluded that unless you were very confident with your post-flop play, you should stick to playing premium hands.

Unsurprisingly, this tactic can’t be used throughout. By the time you get to the middle phase you are going to have to get more imaginative.

I identify the start of this phase as when the blinds reach 50/100, but that is based on a chip stack that has not veered too far in either direction from the 1,500 starting stack. Generally speaking, you’re going to have to change gears if the blinds total around 10% of your stack, and 50/100 blinds represent 10% of a 1,500 stack.