5 Tips to Beating Double or Nothing Sit and Go's

08-02-2026 05:05 AM

Double or nothing sit and go's are tournaments where half of the entrants double their money and half of the entrants lose. For example if you play in a 10 player $10 buy-in double or nothing tournament, the top 5 finishers would win $20 and the bottom 5 would leave with nothing. Needless to say this unique payout structure requires you to make some changes to your game in order to have the best chance of winning.

Tip #1 – Play very tight for the first few levels.
For the first few levels you want to play very tight and only play your premium hands. Playing tight will allow you to preserve your stack for the later stages and will also give your opponents time to take each other out. You should try not to risk chips in this stage and only play pots when you think you are ahead.

Tip #2 – Try not to call in the middle to late stages
It is important to try to maintain your stack through the middle and late stages when the blinds start to get bigger. To do this you should raise your premium hands or even your moderate hands in good situations and hopefully take down some blinds. One thing you should not do in these stages is call raises. You should be pushing all-in or folding to most raises at this stage. Once the blinds get bigger it's not worth risking a tenth or so of your stack to see the flop because those chips may be the difference between doubling up and bubbling out.

Tip #3 – Try to get your chips in when you're ahead
In double or nothing sit and go's coin flips are not beneficial to your cause, especially in the early stages. The amount of chips that you might win is not worth the amount of chips you could just as easily lose. This is because you can only win a maximum of double your buy-in, so the added value of a double up doesn't equal the 50% chance of losing your entire stack, because even if you double up you aren't guaranteed to cash.

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Tip #4 – Play tight at the bubble
In order to make the top half of the field you should stay tight at the bubble. In double or nothing sit and go's there are more players at the bubble than in normal tournaments, which decreases your chances of being the bubble boy. For this reason it is smart to just play super tight and hope that another player busts. Fifth place pays the same as first, so there is no reason to risk being eliminated in 6^th to take the chip lead.

Tip #5 – Survive with smart all-in moves late
If you are getting short stacked at the bubble you should try to move in from good positions to steal blinds and survive in the tournament. You should go after the middle stacks who have enough chips that they feel they can survive until the cash, but have few enough that they are worried about you doubling through them.

The majority of the profit that can be made from double or nothing sit and go's comes from the few wild players who do not understand the structure. The players who will be the most profitable are those who are able to adjust their games through the various stages of the double or nothing sit and go.

**dadsrus** · 08-02-2026 01:02 PM

5 really good tips for DU sngs thaxs for the good the info is always good cheers

**SnappySam** · 08-02-2026 01:04 PM

Good post.

You also have to be highly aware of when players to your left may be forced to be all-in because of the blinds, which also means keeping an eye on when the blinds will increase. With the Blinds at 150/300, and your stack at 600, if you are next to post the blinds you need decide if you can get away with folding these Blind hands. If any player/s to your left will be forced to soon be all-in, then consider folding (unless your hand is very good) your BB if raised, and folding your SB unless you have a good hand that won't get raised to a call. But you also have to set this against the next Blind increase - and sometimes you may need to let your hands time out so as just to waste some time to allow the Blinds to go up and therefore possibly force an all-in which if you acted immediately may have been avoided by the other player/s. Even assuming the other player/s manage to survive, it's still possible you can stay in for your next two Blind hands - you could get folded to or you might win the pot in a showdown. With so few players at the table you won't be bumping into that many great hands anyway.

**eberetta1** · 08-02-2026 01:26 PM

My brother loves playing the $10 double or nothing sit and go's. I bubbled two tournaments this weekend and neither were sit and go's.

**sickfk1** · 08-02-2026 05:37 PM

very good reads! i myself have stayed away from the sng du dont ask me why just have but with this info i may just have to play a few. wenever i cant find a good turny i mostly turn 2 coin flips 4 the cash to buy into a higher turny i wont buyinto normaly