PokerStars Sit n Gos

For everybody who craves some mind-boggling Sit-N-Go action, internet poker mammoth PokerStars is as close to Valhalla as you are ever going to get. Action abounds pretty much around the clock in every poker game known to man. In fact, PokerStars.com SnG's are so good that they are what others compare themselves to in the online poker industry.

The PokerStars download Sit n Go lobby is littered with a lot of stuff and can be confusing at first. Don't worry, as it will all be explained later. Thankfully, it’s very easy to find your way around and zero in on exactly what you want to play, with the help of the utilitarian Sit-N-Go Filter. This filter will help you to easily select whichever games are of interest while weeding out the rest. You can make selections among: the Game Types; Betting Limits; range of buy-ins; which currency you want to play in; which format you want to see; how many players per table you’d like; and if you want to see only the registering and upcoming games, running ones, or just the completed ones. Breezing through this passable replica of the Amazon Jungle is an easy affair, thanks to the SNG filter.



Now, let’s talk about available buy-ins and amount of traffic of the provided poker games. PokerStars SNGs are available in pretty much every buy-in your bankroll allows for. You will be able to find games starting from $1.20 and going all the way up to $5600. But even at these highest 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 but you would see tumbleweed gently rolling around before seeing one of those games running there. In real life, up to about $200 buy-in or so you will always see a game running on PS, and that number goes up to about $600 for the HU Sit n Go's. This makes massive multi tabling SNGs not burdensome at all, and makes it extremely easy to clear any bonuses you may get, including the sign up bonus for instance.

And now: game variety. Remember we said earlier that the PokerStars.com SnG lobby resembled a Rubik's cube? It was with good reason, and it will be explained now.

With literally every poker game known to man available in SnG format, PokerStars.com should not even be compared to other online poker sites. You will be able to find the staples such as Hold'em and Omaha in every betting variant (Fixed Limit, Pot Limit, No Limit) 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 HORSE, Stud, Draw (5-Card, 7-Card, Single draw and Triple draw) and even Badugi. You can also find Mixed Hold'em games running, and much more. In a nutshell, any variant of the game of poker that has been invented is available in the Poker Stars SnG lobby.

And that is all fun and games (pun intended), now what Sit-N-Go specific game types does PokerStars offer me, you ask? Poker Stars has a plethora up its sleeves, as expected. 9-man games are the most popular variant you can find on the site, 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. Games designated as "standard" (which have 10 min. blinds), as well as those designated as "Turbo" (with 5 min. blinds) populate the lobby like fish in the ocean. You will also encounter DoN tourneys, in which 10 players enter but 5 get paid, and Knockout tournaments, in which the buy-in is increased to add something to the "Knockout Pool". Knock someone out in a Knockout tournament and you will instantly be receiving some money back, typically 25% the actual buy-in. Just knock 4 people out and you are free-rolling in the tourney!

PokerStars also has Steps tourneys, found in the special “Satellite” tab. Step tournaments are just the same as regular tournaments, except the payouts will allow you to play other steps. The goal is to make it to the last step, which is Step 6 for $ steps and Step G for € steps: win any of those steps and an entry to a live tourney will be yours, which may be truly anything including the EPT Monte Carlo to the prestigious WSOP Main Event. Buy-in start from $7.50 and €2.20, and you can freely buy-in into higher steps too if you so wish. You can also buy in with FPP’s as high as a step 3. Yup, you will be able to qualify for the biggest live events you can imagine for pocket change!

And just when you did not need any more reasons to play SNGs on Poker Stars, you know it gets better. And indeed, Sit-N-Go's on PS.com are possible the best way for someone with a moderate bankroll to make short work of the very juicy sign-up bonus! PS.com gives away a very juicy bonus to new players weighs in at an equivalent of 600 dollars (in Euro’s too, and also in Pounds), and allots you just 90 days to clear it. Think about it: $600 is an adequate roll to grind the $6.50 turbo's, and probably very adequate to grind the $11's too. To release the bonus, you need to earn 17 times the amount in VPPs: you will earn $10 of the bonus every time you collect 170 VPPs.

Every dollar paid in tourney fees will net you 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, you would clear the entire thing in less than 65 days. Raise the stakes to $11 per tourney, you’d need (10,200/5.5) = about 1850 to clear, which again using a volume of about 50 games per day would take you just around 33 days to clear. That's like 6-tabling for 2 hours each day, a feat very easily done by pretty much everybody, and we are not even counting you running hot and moving up in stakes, which would require even less time to clear.

As you can see, Poker Stars is invincible in every SNG related thing 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… PS will always have you covered! And the cherry on the cake is the humongous sign-up PokerStars bonus. Register your new account with the PokerStars marketing code of FLOPTURNRIVER and the PokerStars bonus code of STARS600 and get $600 free.  So what exactly are you waiting for now? Go and make your new account right now, and start grinding with impunity!