I don’t know if it’s the “all-in” mode you describe, but few players tend go wild with a middle/bottom pairs and capping with every round only ending up losing to a stronger hand. If they had stopped a bit earlier, they would have noticed that they’re already beaten.

But sit’n'gos are fun just because of that: you have to get strong reads on the opponents and adjust them as the tournament advances.

As the blinds get really big relative to the stack sizes, “rope a dope” strategies (letting the aggressive player keep betting into you thinking you are on a draw/weak hand) can accumulate a pretty sizable pot.

Blind steals can be pretty effective vs. weak mid-low stacks, but be careful about trying to steal blinds from aggressive defensive tricky players. A couple of unsuccessful blind steal attempts can quickly dwindle your stack in the later stages of a sit’n'go.

Keep notes on all the players and be willing to change gears depending on your stack size relative to other players at the table. You don’t want to take to many chances with a smallish stack that can’t afford it. If you do, you’re too likely to get crippled and blinded out of the tournament.

The “fold equity” concept still applies here I think.

Try and figure out who the weaker players are and try to isolate them as often as possible.

As the blinds go up relative to the stack sizes, I think creative plays become more important, especially bluffs and semi-bluffs against the mid-low stacks. Try to put them in situations where calling down would cripple their stack size.

As the table gets more short-handed you need to get more aggressive, and limp trapping with big pair hands tends to be pretty powerful.

I’m definitely no pro, but these would be some of the strategies I would probably employ in limit sit’n'gos.

I wondered if anyone here had any good tips and strategies for fixed limit sit’n'go tournaments?

I’ve bought Ed’s Getting Started in Hold’em and read its sit’n'go section, but it’s mostly about no-limit. I think some of it applies to fixed limit sit’n'gos, but there must be big differences in strategies of fixed limit vs. no-limit sit’n'go tournaments.

There’s, I think, an similar thing in fixed limit tournaments of the all-in rage in no-limit. It seems that, once in a while, couple of players put their finger on the raise button and don’t take it off until the pot is over.

That’s fine if you like to make one cold-call a session to keep things fun. But it’s definitely not a “good” cold-call. It’s a pretty clear fold, especially from two off the button. On the button it’s closer to being ok.

On the turn, I think your 3-bet is very reckless. A turn check-raise on a 4-flush board is more likely than not to be the nuts. And if it’s not the nuts, then your opponent is essentially drawing dead, so 3-betting doesn’t help you that much. If your opponent is bluffing, he’ll probably just fold to your 3-bet, whereas if you just called, he might try to fire another barrel on the river. So 3-betting might actually cost you a bet if you’re ahead. You’re essentially hoping your opponent has precisely the T and won’t be able to let it go. But I think you’ll find very few players would checkraise the turn with just the T in that situation. It’s either the K (most likely), or it’s a bluff or some other wacky hand. The “in-between” hands will tend just to call down.

Honestly, I think you can fold after getting 4-bet on the turn, despite your one out. You are 99% facing the K at that point.

Finally, congrats on sucking out.

I would call in lp in a nl game if there was no raise or raise in lp as a semi-bluff ( in unraised pot).

And I would play it in the blinds in various scenarios. I would maybe and try and steal the blinds in limit if they were weak and folded 2 much…otherwise, muck it. After entering the pot the rest of the hand looked fine.

The only question I have is regarding your cold-calling pre-flop with J9s. This is a no-no if I understand Ed’s SSHE correctly.