Having a big stack at the end stages of a sit & go can be a lot of fun and almost guarantee a victory -- as long as you’re playing optimally. In this article we’ll analyze a situation that you’ll find frequently on the money bubble, but have probably overlooked as a big-stack tyrant. In a standard nine-person sit & go the top three places are paid. Often times on the bubble you’ll see one player with a giant stack, two players with low to medium stacks and one player fighting for their life with a short stack. Many players use their big stack to attack the short player and burst the bubble, but there is an effective way to continue adding chips to your stack while keeping the short stack -- and the bubble -- alive. Let’s use these chip counts as an example: Player 1: 2,500 chips Player 2: 2,500 chips Player 3: 750 chips Player 4: 7,750 chips With the blinds at 200/400, the three short stacks are playing the game of survival in order to make it into the money. As Player 4, our goal is to attack the medium stacks because we know they’re waiting for Player 3 to be eliminated and ...