Have been playing some $5 SNG tourneys for a while now. I know I'm not being aggressive enough. I'm only playing premiom hands through the first 4 levels or so. But once the table gets down to 5 people or so, I'm finding that I'm usually the short stack, and from that point get bullied or blinded into submission. Any tips for being more aggressive and building up more of a base to play in the later rounds?

Being conservative early is a good plan for SNGs, if they are multi-table 18 or 27 players you will need to kick it up a gear a little earlier. Probably starting at the 3rd level 25/50 blinds.

If the table is passive PF you can try limping with suited connectors/ small pairs and other good drawing hands, if you hit it you can stack people if you miss it costs you next to nothing.

If people aren't defending their blinds, attack them. If they are, still attack them with decent cards.

Most of all you will need to gamble once you get to ~10 BB, you'll need to push all in fairly often.

Thanks for the response. I'm mostly playing single table SNG's, once in a while I'll try a multi table. I'm just never confident enough in my cards to go on the offensive. Maybe just something that'll come in time.

What site? I know Steve-O came up with a guide for Party.

Partypoker. If you could post a link to the guide it would be much appreciated. I would love to see it.

Gee thanks Marm...I never thought of that.

Wow.

Phytopath, thanks for your advice. This strategy seem to work. Does it come from your own experience?