Nick the Fish is back, alongside Dara O'Kearney, to welcome in the New Year with an episode focusing on Sit and Go Double or Nothing tournaments. 

Having eroded most of his bankroll on cash games, Nick has turned his attention to SNG DoN tournaments as a way of familiarising himself with the sharp end of tournaments.

In Part 1 Dara gets all misty eyed as he looks back to his formative years of playing Sit N Go tournaments and how playing thousands of hands of what he describes as ‘final table simulators’ became ideal preparation for moving on to becoming an MTT specialist.

Part 2 focuses on the strategy of the SNG, particularly the contrasts to cash games. Dara outlines the two crucial differences between the two games: ICM and playing short stacked and runs through some of the common pitfalls for cash players making the transition to SNGs.

In Part 3 Nick and Dara look closely at some of the significant hands Nick played during a recent Double or Nothing tournament. Each hand reveals a minor mistake from a different stage of the tournament, mistakes which could easily lead to a far greater ones if not addressed:

Listen to the end for outtake of an impromptu appearance of a very special supporter of the pod, the dog! Ridiculous creature.