How to play
A Sit & Go is a single-table poker tournament that starts as soon as the seats are filled. Here you sit down with one to five computer opponents, everyone gets 1,500 tournament chips, and the game is Pot-Limit Omaha. Play until one player has every chip.
Each hand plays like a Pot-Limit Omaha cash game:
- The dealer button (the white D) moves to the next player still in the tournament. The two players to its left post the small and big blinds. With two players left, the button posts the small blind.
- Everyone gets four cards face down. Then come betting rounds before the flop, after the flop (three community cards), after the turn (a fourth) and after the river (a fifth).
- On your turn you can fold, check, call, or bet / raise. The biggest raise is the size of the pot: what’s already in the middle plus the call. Use the slider or the ½ pot and Pot buttons.
- Your hand is exactly two of your four cards plus exactly three from the table. Four hearts in your hand and one on the board is not a flush. If everyone else folds, you win without showing; at a showdown, every hand still in is turned face up.
Rising blinds. The blinds go up every 8 hands: 10/20, 15/30, 25/50, 50/100, 75/150, 100/200, 150/300, 200/400, 300/600, 400/800, 600/1,200 and finally 1,000/2,000. The middle of the table shows the current level, how many hands are left before the blinds rise, and how many players are still in.
Eliminations. A player who loses all their chips is out and nobody takes their seat. If two players go out in the same hand, the one who started that hand with more chips finishes higher. When you go out, you see your finishing place; if you collect every chip, you win the tournament.
Between hands you can leave the tournament: you finish last among the players still at the table. Choose a table size from 2 to 6 players when you start a new tournament. Your tournament is saved, so you can close the page and come back to the same hand.
Strategy
Hands run closer than in Hold’em. With four cards each, someone usually has a draw or a strong pair. A-A with nothing else is a favorite but rarely a big one. Hands with four cards that work together (A-A-K-K double-suited, connected cards like J-10-9-8 in two suits) play best.
Pot limit slows the all-ins, the blinds speed them up. Early on, a pot-sized bet is small compared with your stack, so you can see flops cheaply and fold when you miss. As the blinds rise, a pot-sized raise before the flop quickly commits a short stack: below about 15 big blinds, decide before the flop whether you’re ready to play for everything.
Draw to the nuts. In Omaha the best possible hand is often out there. A small flush or the low end of a straight loses big pots; draw to the best one.
Read the labels. Every computer player shows Tight or Loose, and aggressive or passive. Tight players fold a lot, so raise their blinds; loose players call more, so bet your good hands for value.
More poker. For the No-Limit Hold’em version, play Hold’em Sit & Go. For a cash table, try Pot-Limit Omaha.
If you enjoy Omaha Sit & Go, try Open-Face Pineapple or Over/Under 21 next.
