Jackpot SNG

Jackpot SNG Strategy

The new jackpot sit n gos on the iPoker network are a great way for players to make good money. These are a series of SNGs where players pay more in rake than normal to enter these six handed SNGs, but if they win six in a row they win the jackpot of $25,000. While this is a great feat to accomplish it still adds to the winnings that you would make from what place you take home in all 6 of them.

Standard Play In Jackpot Sit And Go’s

In these Jackpot SNG touranments you are playing in a normal standard way still in hopes of making it to the payout. These pay in the traditional 50%-30%-20% so the top seats get paid. Your main goal is still to make your money through placing in one of these seats just like in a regular sit-n-go.

You are still playing the same standard game that you normally would. Even though there is a jackpot if you win the six in a row you still have to focus on the fact that your odds of hitting are just less than 1/7500 and still play your standard game that you normally do in hopes to place in the money.

A mistake a lot of players make is switching their game after winning 3 in a row, in order to “tighten up” as they get nervous about potentially hitting a jackpot sng. It is very important to keep playing your A game, and in fact increase your aggression level if you have a chance at winning the jackpot.

Hitting the SNG Jackpot

In order to hit the jackpot in these SNGs you must win six of them in a row. Along with this you are also paying nearly double the rake to enter these tournaments. This means that you have to hit the jackpot enough to pay for the extra rake that it will cost you to play in this special SNG for it to be more profitable than a standard SNG.

If you are a winning player at SNGs and have a 25% first place win rate at them which is very good then you are +EV to play in these jackpot SNGs. While it costs slightly more your expectancy to win the jackpot must be figured in to what you win in each one as well. If it costs $20+$3.50 to enter into these and you win 25% of the time in first place you can calculate in that you are winning over $6 more each time you win because of the times you will hit the jackpot. Sometimes players might even go on a hot streak and hit the jackpot more than 1/7500 times and this will increase even more.

Since it costs an extra $1.50 to enter these you must win at least that much more than the standard SNG to make it profitable. Since we have figured out that you will be winning around 1/7500 times or more you are profiting an additional $6.10 each time you play which makes this type of SNG +EV for players who are grinding them and will play more than 7500 of them.

Collusion in Jackpot SNG Tournaments

Since the way to hit the jackpot is to win six of these in a row it comes off to a lot of players as an open invitation to try and cheat to hit the jackpot. Do not let this tempt you. The sites look into these as much as they can to make sure that there is no collusion by players and to also make sure that the player has not violated any of the terms of service while in any of the SNGs.

Over all these SNGs will pay you better than an average SNG so there is no need to try to cheat. Your chance of winning the jackpot if you play correctly and legitimately win the 6 in a row is 100%. If you cheat you cannot be sure if you are going to get caught or not which would make all of the events that you have played in to get that far EV for you and you will lose the $1.50 for every SNG you played in before cheating.

Another big thing to keep in mind while you are playing in these SNGs is to just turn chat off. If there is any reason whatsoever that you were to swear in the chat or break the terms of service by any means you will be disqualified for the jackpot money. It only makes sense that you would avoid this at all costs so that you are guaranteed to win the money and to focus better on your play.