I've been crushing Sit-n-Go's the last few days on Stars. I've played all turbos. Stats are as follows..
#: 35
$Won: $383.40
Net $Won: $155.90
ROI%: 68.53
ITM%: 51.43
1ST: 10
2ND: 5
3RD: 3
I have blown through 365 of the 6 dollar turbo's and want to play them until 500 or more. Just because it would give me a little ceiling for when i move up. I wish Stars had 11 dollar turbo's instead of going right to 15. I'm easily bankrolled for it, but variance is always a bitch.
There has been a lot of talk about Bubble play lately in a lot of places. Well i just finished a sng for the ages. This is probably the best bubble i have ever played. For PXF members heres the link, for everyone else ill post a detailed description after Lost.
Here is the Link
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Victory! - Another FT with a win..
It might have been a sign by Lee Jones this morning that got me up and playing on Stars. I was tossing and turning for about an hour until i finally said F it and stopped trying to fall back asleep. We kept playing solid and found ourselves at the 2nd Final Table of the week.
I took out half the players in the final 9 and got heads up with wyatt. I made some nice plays but found myself down a little over 4.5-1 in chips. We played maybe 30 hands before going on a 5 minute break. I re-grouped and devised a nice little strategy for wyatt based on his tendencies. 1st was $920 and 2nd was $579. It was quite a bit difference but i wanted to use that to my advantage to bully him around. Within 20 hands i had a 1 million to 300k chip lead. I won an all in to put me up to 500k and it was just sheer aggression at the end. I'll discuss some hands later this week, but for now we got football on. For those who have a PokerXFactor subscription, my HH is posted on the replayer.
P.S. - Oh yeah I'm 9th on the TLB for this week, considering it just started today! lol
I took out half the players in the final 9 and got heads up with wyatt. I made some nice plays but found myself down a little over 4.5-1 in chips. We played maybe 30 hands before going on a 5 minute break. I re-grouped and devised a nice little strategy for wyatt based on his tendencies. 1st was $920 and 2nd was $579. It was quite a bit difference but i wanted to use that to my advantage to bully him around. Within 20 hands i had a 1 million to 300k chip lead. I won an all in to put me up to 500k and it was just sheer aggression at the end. I'll discuss some hands later this week, but for now we got football on. For those who have a PokerXFactor subscription, my HH is posted on the replayer.
P.S. - Oh yeah I'm 9th on the TLB for this week, considering it just started today! lol
Friday, October 20, 2006
Game 7 - Final Table
I wanted to watch Game 7 of the NLCS with the Cardinals vs Mets, so i didn't want to get into anything to enthralling. Although I still wanted to play. Pizza was on the way and we had a $1 MTT starting. I thought why not. I wasn't really expecting anything much but I still wanted to play my regular game. 4 hours later and with the Mets about to bat in the Bottom of the 9th down 3-1, we arrived here...
The play here wasnt the greatest considering the $1 entry. It was a good chance at picking spots and practicing the end game. My table position was phenomenal. I couldn't have asked for anything more. All the big stacks were to the right of me and all the small stacks were the left. The 2nd hand of the final table was a pretty good one and shows the type of play i encountered through out the night. I had raised pre flop to $10,099, and the big blind just flat called. The flop came coordinated. You definitely can't slow play these types of boards. He had 24k left behind him and i bet $19,999, essentially putting him all in. He made the call and was drawing dead here...
After that hand i couldn't really get anything going. I was up to 113k and just got blinded. I tried making a move and fell down to 60k. Blinds got up to 3k/6k and i had 9 bb's left. I pushed with A4 into a buttom limper and he called with K3 haha. He hit his king and i was out. Oh and the mets lost considering their 100 million dollar man struck out with the bases loaded hahaha.
The play here wasnt the greatest considering the $1 entry. It was a good chance at picking spots and practicing the end game. My table position was phenomenal. I couldn't have asked for anything more. All the big stacks were to the right of me and all the small stacks were the left. The 2nd hand of the final table was a pretty good one and shows the type of play i encountered through out the night. I had raised pre flop to $10,099, and the big blind just flat called. The flop came coordinated. You definitely can't slow play these types of boards. He had 24k left behind him and i bet $19,999, essentially putting him all in. He made the call and was drawing dead here...
After that hand i couldn't really get anything going. I was up to 113k and just got blinded. I tried making a move and fell down to 60k. Blinds got up to 3k/6k and i had 9 bb's left. I pushed with A4 into a buttom limper and he called with K3 haha. He hit his king and i was out. Oh and the mets lost considering their 100 million dollar man struck out with the bases loaded hahaha.
Monday, October 16, 2006
A Sit-n-Go dissected.
A couple of people have asked how i play sng's lately. I'm going to use one that i won yesterday. I haven't watched it again yet, so i get a fresh perspective to see if i played some hands good or bad. A few tidbits before i begin.
1) Value bets are few and far between in the lower sng levels. I would say about 80 percent of the time you can get all of someones chips if they hold TPTK.
2) I don't raise as often as i normally would because you're getting 3-4 callers no matter how you put it. I'll limp in with almost any hand except for aces or kings. That includes JJ and QQ. They are just a pair.
3) You NEVER want to get down to 5 bb's. You have the minimum amount of flexibility and fold equity when you get down that low. Often when i have 8-10 bb's and its folded to me, i'm pushing with any 2.
4) Bubble play is key. This is where you win and lose the tournament in my opinion. The big stack should be pushing almost every hand. The short stacks can't afford to call with a bad hand because they wouldn't get "paid".
This tournament only lasted 51 hands. So let's take a look at this sit and go.
1) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560732 - Ok, so we get As Qs in the sb with 2 limpers. kplunk mini raises to 40, pete calls. Normally if we were farther in the tournament this would be an easy over the top move for all my chips. We simply don't need to do that on the first hand of the tournament. If i flop an ace, ok i may have the 2nd best hand. If i flop a queen, even better i most likely have the best hand. The problem with this flop is that people LOVE to play ace rag. I decided to check raise in this spot because i belive it shows more strength than just betting out. If i bet out all 3 could possibly call and i would have no idea where i was at in the hand. If i get re raised here than i can easily toss the hand because im not invested at all. Our raise takes down the pot.
2) Jh 3h - Fold
3) 7d 2s - Fold
4) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560746 - We get KK in cutoff+1. I make it 120 to go here. Players at this level don't respect raises what so ever, so it has to be a significant raise for them to fold early on. Brad48 calls and we see a flop. Not a good flop for Kings. We dont need to try and outplay him, we check and he bets right out. Ill fold here almost every time. You just don't need to get involved this early unless you have an absolute monster.
5) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560750 - Now I'm dealt JJ. I had just raised the previous hand. Like i said before i'm usually going to limp here hoping for that 3 J A flop so I can get all my chips in. We didn't hit and there is an overcard on the bored so we fold.
6) 5c 9s - Fold
7) 2h 7h - Fold
8) Jh Tc - Fold
*Blinds are up to 25/50. Now we have to start watching where our stack is in coherence with the blinds. This is VERY important*
9) Kc Qh - In the big blind and we get to see a flop. We miss and fold. 31 BB's
10) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560764 - This is one of the main reasons why i rarely complete in multiway pots like these. Once the jack on the turn comes, it would be difficult for someone to get away from that hand. The 9d Td limp utg is bad and the Jh 5h call from ep is even worse. We lose a person here and we go 8 handed. 29 BB's
11) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560772 - Typical stuff. Virum is actually the only player that i recognize at this table. He knows what hes doing in these sng's and if i dont hit i have to give him respect for a hand. 26 BB's
12) 9h Ts - Fold
13) 9s 5h - Fold
14) Ac Ah - Raise to 300 with blinds 50/100 and everyone folds. 15 BB's
15) 7h 8s - Fold
* So the blinds have snuck up on us pretty fast. We've gone from 26 bb's to 15 very quickly.
16) 2c 6h - Fold
17) 5c 2c - Big blind and we fold - 12 BB's
18) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560780 - I make a 2.5 times raise to get him in the pot. If he has a queen here than gl to him. We don't want to get cute and let cards rattle off. 15 BB's.
19) 3s 5s - Fold
20) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560783 - A key hand in the tournament. My thoughts here were that if he had AJ he would have been all in pre flop. Any ace in the blinds and there is a raise in late position and people love to just throw their chips in. This is as good as a flop you're going to get with 10s here. He doubles us up, and we're in the clear for now. 31 BB's
21) 7c 6c - Fold
22) 4d 6d - Fold
23) 9h 5s - Fold
24) As 3c - Fold
25) Kc 3s - In the big blind. The flop comes Qc 9d 6s, sb checks i bet 150 he folds. If he calls there, im usually done with the hand. In these spots its the first one who bets at these pots usually wins. 33 BB's.
*Ok now blinds are at 100/200. This is one of my main goals to get to this level. If i get to here unscathed(spelling) we have a good shot atleast cashing. Somehow we're still 8 handed. Usually 2-3 people are gone by now.
26) Qd 6c - I mini raise and take the guys blind 18 BB's.
27) Tc 6d - Fold - and we lose 2 players on the hand. 18 BB's.
28) 9s 2d - Fold
29) 9c 6h - Fold - guy to our left doubles up to 800.
30) 6h 5d - Fold - Guy to our left wins another pot
31) Ks Kc - utg and we make it 700 to go. I don't like being utg witht his type of hand so we make it 3.5 times and take the pot which is fine. 21 BB's
32) 8h 5h - in the BB and fold.
33) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560803 - You only need to make it 2 1/2 times the blind here. If he comes over the top, you could argue both ways for a call and a fold. He only has 1520 more behind so it would be getting 2.5-1 to call. But it is half hour stack. How much would me taking his chips help me in winning the tournament. Probably a good deal. But if i lose im down to 2k in chips and pretty much in push fold mode. He folds and we're at 21 BB's
34) Jd 4d - Fold
35) 10d 6c - Fold
36) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560817 - We luck out for once and catch a 4 on the turn to take out probably the strongest player other than me at the table. He could be pushing with any 2 there and KJ qualifies as any 2. It was 700 more to win 2805 so it was a very easy call. Now we're at T5635 and have 28 BB's.
* At this point we're down to 5 players. We really have to start punishing the smaller stacks at this point. Then when we get to 4 players, we could be going all in every hand with any 2. They want to cash so they aren't going to call with bad hands.
37) Ad 3s - Fold
38) As 3c - Fold - We lose another and are on the bubble.
*Lets look at the stacks right now. To my left there is T2245. 2 to my left is T610. 3 to my left is T1715. And to my right we have T3520. This is the ideal chip position you want to be in. The biggest stack other than you on your right and all the small stacks on the left.
39) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560832 - Personally i didn't like the play here by either player. They both are in push fold mode. Even if you have a monster like KK you have to play like you have any 2. Say I'm in the bb here. I call with 36 and the flop comes 3 6 T. You're getting your money in either way with KK and your game is over. If you raised i wouldn't have entered the pot and you would have lived to see more hands. This is one of the biggest flaws i see in these sng's.
* Now we're 4 handed and the bubble play begins. We have Pete with 3520 to our right, debt with 4120 to our right and road with only 585 chips. This is looking like a poor bubble. What i would normally do is double up roadking so i can really abuse the bubble and be set when we get 3 handed. Blinds have also got up to 200/400 so we only have 13 BB's
40) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560839 - Ok so here we go. debt CAN NOT call my all in with a shortstack to his left unless he has Aces. That's the only thing he can all with in that spot. Roadking pretty much has to call with any 2 here considering 90 percent of his stack is in the middle. I was hoping he would win the hand just so i could get more chips from the bubble. 15 BB's
41) Qc Td - In the BB, we still play the same way we always do. No need to get crazy and be calling all ins with overs. UTG makes it 1600 to go with 3s and has 2285 behind. It would be a race but a race we dont need to get involved in. 14 BBs
42) Jc 5d - In the sb, i push because he sees pete has a lower chip stack than he does so hes going to try and stall to get more money. 15 BBs
43) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560854 - We are the big stack, so we're going to be the aggressor. I'm raising every hand until they figure out what im doing. It doesn't have to be a big raise because we arent calling an all in with 10c 5h. You want to be able to get away from the hand if you want to. With smarter players you would have to switch it up every time, but at this level they dont know any better. 17 BBs
44) We get a walk in the big blind with Q7. Thats what you get when you're big stack.
45) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560865 - No reason to call here, we move on to the next hand.
46) 8d 3d - Fold - I give them a break to show that i wont be pushing every hand even tho i will be. Good thing i didn't because debt doubled up pete when pete's A6 flopped a 6 against deb'ts A5.
47) Jh 2h - Fold - 2 all ins in front of us, easy fold. pete flops a set and we're now heads up.
48) All we do here is watch his stack and ours. Under Ten and its all in any 2. Same for him. Right now we're outchipped 7330 to 6145. Not that big of a deficit.
48 - a) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560879 - I'm gladly getting my chips in here. We have 16 outs and not going anywhere. We hit 2 times and the sng is pretty much over. We just have to avoid being unlucky.
49) T7 vs Q7 he wins. My stack is at 10,265 he has it 1210.
50) He folds for some reason my stack is at 12290 hes at 210. That was a really bad fold by him. He has to be pushing with any 2.
51) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560885 - And thats the end of that.
Well we got lucky once and the bubble was easy. I will try and find one of these where i really attack the bubble and get up to 9 or 10k when we get 3 handed. If you have any questions leave em in the comments section or shoot me an email.
1) Value bets are few and far between in the lower sng levels. I would say about 80 percent of the time you can get all of someones chips if they hold TPTK.
2) I don't raise as often as i normally would because you're getting 3-4 callers no matter how you put it. I'll limp in with almost any hand except for aces or kings. That includes JJ and QQ. They are just a pair.
3) You NEVER want to get down to 5 bb's. You have the minimum amount of flexibility and fold equity when you get down that low. Often when i have 8-10 bb's and its folded to me, i'm pushing with any 2.
4) Bubble play is key. This is where you win and lose the tournament in my opinion. The big stack should be pushing almost every hand. The short stacks can't afford to call with a bad hand because they wouldn't get "paid".
This tournament only lasted 51 hands. So let's take a look at this sit and go.
1) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560732 - Ok, so we get As Qs in the sb with 2 limpers. kplunk mini raises to 40, pete calls. Normally if we were farther in the tournament this would be an easy over the top move for all my chips. We simply don't need to do that on the first hand of the tournament. If i flop an ace, ok i may have the 2nd best hand. If i flop a queen, even better i most likely have the best hand. The problem with this flop is that people LOVE to play ace rag. I decided to check raise in this spot because i belive it shows more strength than just betting out. If i bet out all 3 could possibly call and i would have no idea where i was at in the hand. If i get re raised here than i can easily toss the hand because im not invested at all. Our raise takes down the pot.
2) Jh 3h - Fold
3) 7d 2s - Fold
4) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560746 - We get KK in cutoff+1. I make it 120 to go here. Players at this level don't respect raises what so ever, so it has to be a significant raise for them to fold early on. Brad48 calls and we see a flop. Not a good flop for Kings. We dont need to try and outplay him, we check and he bets right out. Ill fold here almost every time. You just don't need to get involved this early unless you have an absolute monster.
5) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560750 - Now I'm dealt JJ. I had just raised the previous hand. Like i said before i'm usually going to limp here hoping for that 3 J A flop so I can get all my chips in. We didn't hit and there is an overcard on the bored so we fold.
6) 5c 9s - Fold
7) 2h 7h - Fold
8) Jh Tc - Fold
*Blinds are up to 25/50. Now we have to start watching where our stack is in coherence with the blinds. This is VERY important*
9) Kc Qh - In the big blind and we get to see a flop. We miss and fold. 31 BB's
10) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560764 - This is one of the main reasons why i rarely complete in multiway pots like these. Once the jack on the turn comes, it would be difficult for someone to get away from that hand. The 9d Td limp utg is bad and the Jh 5h call from ep is even worse. We lose a person here and we go 8 handed. 29 BB's
11) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560772 - Typical stuff. Virum is actually the only player that i recognize at this table. He knows what hes doing in these sng's and if i dont hit i have to give him respect for a hand. 26 BB's
12) 9h Ts - Fold
13) 9s 5h - Fold
14) Ac Ah - Raise to 300 with blinds 50/100 and everyone folds. 15 BB's
15) 7h 8s - Fold
* So the blinds have snuck up on us pretty fast. We've gone from 26 bb's to 15 very quickly.
16) 2c 6h - Fold
17) 5c 2c - Big blind and we fold - 12 BB's
18) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560780 - I make a 2.5 times raise to get him in the pot. If he has a queen here than gl to him. We don't want to get cute and let cards rattle off. 15 BB's.
19) 3s 5s - Fold
20) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560783 - A key hand in the tournament. My thoughts here were that if he had AJ he would have been all in pre flop. Any ace in the blinds and there is a raise in late position and people love to just throw their chips in. This is as good as a flop you're going to get with 10s here. He doubles us up, and we're in the clear for now. 31 BB's
21) 7c 6c - Fold
22) 4d 6d - Fold
23) 9h 5s - Fold
24) As 3c - Fold
25) Kc 3s - In the big blind. The flop comes Qc 9d 6s, sb checks i bet 150 he folds. If he calls there, im usually done with the hand. In these spots its the first one who bets at these pots usually wins. 33 BB's.
*Ok now blinds are at 100/200. This is one of my main goals to get to this level. If i get to here unscathed(spelling) we have a good shot atleast cashing. Somehow we're still 8 handed. Usually 2-3 people are gone by now.
26) Qd 6c - I mini raise and take the guys blind 18 BB's.
27) Tc 6d - Fold - and we lose 2 players on the hand. 18 BB's.
28) 9s 2d - Fold
29) 9c 6h - Fold - guy to our left doubles up to 800.
30) 6h 5d - Fold - Guy to our left wins another pot
31) Ks Kc - utg and we make it 700 to go. I don't like being utg witht his type of hand so we make it 3.5 times and take the pot which is fine. 21 BB's
32) 8h 5h - in the BB and fold.
33) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560803 - You only need to make it 2 1/2 times the blind here. If he comes over the top, you could argue both ways for a call and a fold. He only has 1520 more behind so it would be getting 2.5-1 to call. But it is half hour stack. How much would me taking his chips help me in winning the tournament. Probably a good deal. But if i lose im down to 2k in chips and pretty much in push fold mode. He folds and we're at 21 BB's
34) Jd 4d - Fold
35) 10d 6c - Fold
36) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560817 - We luck out for once and catch a 4 on the turn to take out probably the strongest player other than me at the table. He could be pushing with any 2 there and KJ qualifies as any 2. It was 700 more to win 2805 so it was a very easy call. Now we're at T5635 and have 28 BB's.
* At this point we're down to 5 players. We really have to start punishing the smaller stacks at this point. Then when we get to 4 players, we could be going all in every hand with any 2. They want to cash so they aren't going to call with bad hands.
37) Ad 3s - Fold
38) As 3c - Fold - We lose another and are on the bubble.
*Lets look at the stacks right now. To my left there is T2245. 2 to my left is T610. 3 to my left is T1715. And to my right we have T3520. This is the ideal chip position you want to be in. The biggest stack other than you on your right and all the small stacks on the left.
39) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560832 - Personally i didn't like the play here by either player. They both are in push fold mode. Even if you have a monster like KK you have to play like you have any 2. Say I'm in the bb here. I call with 36 and the flop comes 3 6 T. You're getting your money in either way with KK and your game is over. If you raised i wouldn't have entered the pot and you would have lived to see more hands. This is one of the biggest flaws i see in these sng's.
* Now we're 4 handed and the bubble play begins. We have Pete with 3520 to our right, debt with 4120 to our right and road with only 585 chips. This is looking like a poor bubble. What i would normally do is double up roadking so i can really abuse the bubble and be set when we get 3 handed. Blinds have also got up to 200/400 so we only have 13 BB's
40) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560839 - Ok so here we go. debt CAN NOT call my all in with a shortstack to his left unless he has Aces. That's the only thing he can all with in that spot. Roadking pretty much has to call with any 2 here considering 90 percent of his stack is in the middle. I was hoping he would win the hand just so i could get more chips from the bubble. 15 BB's
41) Qc Td - In the BB, we still play the same way we always do. No need to get crazy and be calling all ins with overs. UTG makes it 1600 to go with 3s and has 2285 behind. It would be a race but a race we dont need to get involved in. 14 BBs
42) Jc 5d - In the sb, i push because he sees pete has a lower chip stack than he does so hes going to try and stall to get more money. 15 BBs
43) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560854 - We are the big stack, so we're going to be the aggressor. I'm raising every hand until they figure out what im doing. It doesn't have to be a big raise because we arent calling an all in with 10c 5h. You want to be able to get away from the hand if you want to. With smarter players you would have to switch it up every time, but at this level they dont know any better. 17 BBs
44) We get a walk in the big blind with Q7. Thats what you get when you're big stack.
45) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560865 - No reason to call here, we move on to the next hand.
46) 8d 3d - Fold - I give them a break to show that i wont be pushing every hand even tho i will be. Good thing i didn't because debt doubled up pete when pete's A6 flopped a 6 against deb'ts A5.
47) Jh 2h - Fold - 2 all ins in front of us, easy fold. pete flops a set and we're now heads up.
48) All we do here is watch his stack and ours. Under Ten and its all in any 2. Same for him. Right now we're outchipped 7330 to 6145. Not that big of a deficit.
48 - a) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560879 - I'm gladly getting my chips in here. We have 16 outs and not going anywhere. We hit 2 times and the sng is pretty much over. We just have to avoid being unlucky.
49) T7 vs Q7 he wins. My stack is at 10,265 he has it 1210.
50) He folds for some reason my stack is at 12290 hes at 210. That was a really bad fold by him. He has to be pushing with any 2.
51) http://www.pokerhand.org/?560885 - And thats the end of that.
Well we got lucky once and the bubble was easy. I will try and find one of these where i really attack the bubble and get up to 9 or 10k when we get 3 handed. If you have any questions leave em in the comments section or shoot me an email.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Downfall....to Recovery
I'm pretty sure lucko passed his downswing over to me because last week i was completely off. It wasnt that i was playing bad, the cards weren't just going my way. You can't really do anything about it. When you flop middle set with Jacks, on a Kd Jc 6s board, then your opponent check raises you for all his chips with As 9s and catches runner runner to get his flush and knock you out, what are ya gonna do? No matter where i went on pokerstars i didnt stand a chance. Whether it was my bread and butter $10 sng's, turbo's, or cash games. I didn't have a chance in hell.
The problem was that i wasnt dropping limits, i was playing the $16 turbo's. Now i am easily bankrolled for these but i dont want to start playing them. So what did i do you ask? I cashed out all my money except for 50 buyins to play the $10 regular sng's exclusively. I have always been a player who can obide by great bankroll management. Well that didn't work out so well, considering i played the $30 deepstack and a few $20 sng's and found myself down to $417.
This is where you find out about yourself. You're in the worst downswing of your life, how are you going to react? Are you going to blow the roll? Are you going to keep playing and work through it? I chose to drop down limits once again to the $6 turbo's. This time i switched something around though. Instead of playing 3-4 i started playing 8-10 games at a time. This actually turned out to be a +EV decision. If you looked at my sharkscope stats last week, it was all - scores. Now everything is looking up again.
I'm not going to post stats, because they are good, but its a small sample size and i dont want to get ahead of myself. Everyone has their way of coping with a dowswing, hopefully yours wont be the end of your poker career.
The problem was that i wasnt dropping limits, i was playing the $16 turbo's. Now i am easily bankrolled for these but i dont want to start playing them. So what did i do you ask? I cashed out all my money except for 50 buyins to play the $10 regular sng's exclusively. I have always been a player who can obide by great bankroll management. Well that didn't work out so well, considering i played the $30 deepstack and a few $20 sng's and found myself down to $417.
This is where you find out about yourself. You're in the worst downswing of your life, how are you going to react? Are you going to blow the roll? Are you going to keep playing and work through it? I chose to drop down limits once again to the $6 turbo's. This time i switched something around though. Instead of playing 3-4 i started playing 8-10 games at a time. This actually turned out to be a +EV decision. If you looked at my sharkscope stats last week, it was all - scores. Now everything is looking up again.
I'm not going to post stats, because they are good, but its a small sample size and i dont want to get ahead of myself. Everyone has their way of coping with a dowswing, hopefully yours wont be the end of your poker career.
Monday, October 09, 2006
Couple Different Things
Hey everyone. I have been playing a little bit of everything the last 2 weeks or so, to try and get a definitive answer on what the best way to make a consistent profit online is. MTT are pretty tough at the limits i play. Its much harder to go through a minefield of people who have no idea what they're doing.
I was playing $.50/$1 and was beating the game pretty easily but my sample size is too small. The next day i wound up giving $200 back of the $500 i had one the day before. I think i need a larger bankroll to be playing cash games online.
Then we have sng's. I took a shot at a $30 regular sng and got 4th. I bubbled when my 55 got outraced by AT when he hit his 10 on the river. So i was tryin the $6 speeds again, and i think i finally got how to play them down. My last 8 results look like this.
Type Entry Entrants Profits
Turbo $6 9 $20.50
Turbo $6 9 $20.50
Reg $4 180 $4.24
Turbo $6 9 $9.70
Turbo $6 9 $4.30
Turbo $6 9 $20.50
Turbo $6 9 -$6.50
Reg $20 9 $14
I am currently easily bankrolled for the $15's and almost the $27's but i want to get my technique down before i move up. This graph is from sharkscope. Note from the 700th Sng on is when i joined PXF. So i guess im making huge strides in my sng play. Because the Regular sng's take so long if i master these turbo's it will be a great thing. Good luck everyone.
I was playing $.50/$1 and was beating the game pretty easily but my sample size is too small. The next day i wound up giving $200 back of the $500 i had one the day before. I think i need a larger bankroll to be playing cash games online.
Then we have sng's. I took a shot at a $30 regular sng and got 4th. I bubbled when my 55 got outraced by AT when he hit his 10 on the river. So i was tryin the $6 speeds again, and i think i finally got how to play them down. My last 8 results look like this.
Type Entry Entrants Profits
Turbo $6 9 $20.50
Turbo $6 9 $20.50
Reg $4 180 $4.24
Turbo $6 9 $9.70
Turbo $6 9 $4.30
Turbo $6 9 $20.50
Turbo $6 9 -$6.50
Reg $20 9 $14
I am currently easily bankrolled for the $15's and almost the $27's but i want to get my technique down before i move up. This graph is from sharkscope. Note from the 700th Sng on is when i joined PXF. So i guess im making huge strides in my sng play. Because the Regular sng's take so long if i master these turbo's it will be a great thing. Good luck everyone.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
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