This hand is an example of one of the few times I advocate checkraising.  Take notice to each of our starting chip stacks, and how early in the SNG this was.  I was able to get into a position where I could have won a lot of chips by upsetting him with a checkraise.  Unfortunately, we ended up with a split pot.

The following is an example of how to play AA against an opponent who isn’t thinking very clearly.  Although this seems very obvious, this is a good hand to show a way to effectively get your opponent to get all his chips in against your big pair drawing very slim.

This normal hand demonstrates the power of being the aggressor preflop and why continuation bets are so effective, especially later on in a SNG.  This is a very brief hand but it yields a lot of meaning, because it is so commonly done by top players – and works very effectively.  It also demonstrates how even being out of position with a bad hand, on a scary board still requires you to take a shot at the flop in most cases.

In this particular hand, I lose all my chips post flop with AA to 75c. At first glance, it would seem like I must have played the hand horribly to lose all my chips to 75c, but if you disect the hand along with me, you'll see my thinking and where exactly I went wrong. This hand describes how making a decision on a early street must be used with later street decisions. I go through each decision I made, and give reasons why it was good or bad, and what I could have done differently.