$24 sngs going well so far.

Just thought I would through in an update for the month and also let everyone know how the switch to real sngs is going.

The month so far is kind of blah after dropping 50 or so buy ins at my superturbos but I am working to make something out of the last few days.




And now for the $24 sngs so far. Keep in mind that I have been going between $12, $24 and $36 sngs so there aren't too many yet.



Props to Deezel50. LOL, the guy made a 6x raise utg+1 and I called him on it in the chatbox. Sorry by the way Deezel, uncool on my part. Anyway the guy tells me he is just learning. The man has played well over 20,000 sngs just at the $24 level.

I have found a home.

I am settling into the $24 sngs at FT. There seems to be a lack of "good" regulars. Table selecting isn't really an option since there aren't too many that run at any given time but really there is no reason to table select anyway. I have found that the other winning players just don't care though. Every once in a while I see 5-6 regulars sitting in the same sng waiting for it to fill up. I just pass that one up and wait for the next one.

Its taking some time to get everyone put into a color category. There are just so many random players jumping in. Not even people trying to move up in stakes. Just people who have never played a sng before. I have identified quite a few people to steer clear of and strangely enough almost as many fish to sit with. I am still amazed at how many losing players there are. I mean really losing players. Seems that every game has at least 2-3 -10% ROI or worse players, sometimes as many as 6 at a table. Stick with it guys! Its a pleasure to play with you. LOL

Volume is going to be an issue here though. At the super turbo games I was accustomed to playing 12-16 tables at a time. Its just push/fold and walk away in those things. With the turbo sngs though, I only feel comfortable with 6 right now. I have done 8 at a time and it was ok but I got that "huh what happened" feeling a few times. I guess I have to start getting used to it again.

I am also begining to wonder what a good ROI is at this level. Most of the winning regulars are at 5% ROI or so. Although they could work on their game a bit.

ie. I shoved QJo from HJ with 5.5 bb shortly after being crippled. The bb (a 5% reg) calls with AK and lights up the chat box saying how horrible I am. LOL whatever guy.

I have found a few guys that are crushing. They are taking the $24 and $36 games at 10%+ ROI over a few thousand games. So I think with contenued work and constant focus on the other regulars adapting to me, I too can get into that range. I know I can if I try to, But am I willing to put in the effort?

OK last thing. I rewatched a sng that Adam Junglen did for us over at PokerVT. There were some spaz tards playing that thing. Just bad all around. It was a $109 sng. I might have to take a few stabs up there if thats what I can look forward to. Although I need to stay where i'm at for the moment.

Good Luck at the tables everyone! LOL all 3 of you.

Good bye A-game

I have settled on playing just Turbo sngs for a while. Everything has been going well enough. I have been breaking even for the most part due to loosing flips when in the money and some gross bubble losses. I have felt really good about my play though. I am better than I thought I was. Or at least I have been playing with focus and at the top of my game.

I lost my A-game tonight. At first I donked off two tables where I knew I was behind. My favorite fish move tells it all. The raise and you 3 bet and for some reason... hem hem.. they small 4-bet you back. AA anyone? Well I couldn't bring myself to fold my QQ. Later stack. And I did the same thing with TT bvb at another table. Forgivable imo but time to really pay attention.

Then this.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 36 Tournament, 60/120 Blinds (5 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com



saw flop | saw showdown



Hero (SB) (t4475)

BB (t55)

UTG (t4535)

MP (t1785)

Button (t2650)



Hero's M: 24.86



Preflop: Hero is SB with 10, 10

UTG bets t4535 (All-In), 2 folds, Hero calls t4415 (All-In)



Flop: (t9005) 9, 9, 9 (3 players, 3 all-in)



Turn: (t9005) 4 (3 players, 3 all-in)



River: (t9005) 3 (3 players, 3 all-in)



Total pot: t9005



Results:

Hero had 10, 10 (full house, nines over tens).

BB had 7, A (three of a kind, nines).

UTG had K, K (full house, nines over Kings).

Outcome: UTG won t9005




WTF! I wasn't paying attention again. I knew the table was all short except the big stack and myself. I insta called and then realized what I had done. I haven't been that mad at myself in a long time. I don't make mistakes like this. What the hell?

Of corse the last of my tables that set didn't end well either. 3 handed sb 4.5x my bb. I reraise to twice his original bet and he ships it in. Insta call with my KK. What? He has 10 7 off suit. LOL donk. Oh my bad... nice strait on the river sir... sigh.

Fallowed by a few shoves into tops of ranges on the bubble. Gross.

Anyway.. I am playing the $12, $24, and $36 stt on FT. I am actually surprised how bad the other players are. There are some decent regs but the rest must be taking shots at a score or something. Very few people have any games played at any stakes and of coarse there are one or two big losers hanging around. Jeez man... you lost $2,500 in 1000 games... welcome to my table.

Pick a game man!

I have been floating around the 45, 27, and 18 man turbo sngs the last few days. I don't really care for the 18 or 27 man games. I might as well be playing a stt. The 45 man games seemed more worth the effort so today I gave them a go. I like the number of people and structure until you hit about 18 people left. Everyone is left with 10 bb or less. I feel my short stack play is better than the competitions but you are looking at a decent level of variance well before the money. I bubbled or close to bubbled more than half of my games today. Just ran into the tops of peoples ranges all day.

Note to Pokerstars: When I get KK in preflop vs AQ can you just give them an A. It makes me want to puke every time they hit trip Q's on the turn.

With that said I decided to fire up FT again. I really don't put in enough volume on PS to justify playing there. I loaded up some $24 stt sngs and had a good laugh watching these idiots go at it. The games really are softer at FT. It makes me wonder just how fishy other sites are. You can easily find comparisons on the web that all say Stars is full of sharks, and FT is closing in on Stars in that respect. If Stars is 9.5 on the shark meter, and FT is like 9.2, how silly are the sites that are 4.6? Almost every other site is in the 4-5 range. I know the downside is the number of games that run. But if all you play against are fish, I would be willing to play on 6 different sites at one time. I'll look into it.

Break from super turbos

I haven't been playing many super turbos as of late. I really wanted to hit my goal of 1,500 games but for some reason I am so easily tilted right now.

I have been playing some multi table sngs and even the rush poker tournaments on FT. I have done well so far. Tonight I re watched some videos from Spacegravy and remembered a few things I could be doing better. Its been a while since I actually played a game that wasn't push fold from the get go.

I plan on playing more 27 and 45 mans this month. They competition is astoundingly bad in these. Somehow shoving 40 bb all in over an open is popular in these?

Lesson of the day. How to go broke on the first hand of a tournament.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 12 Tournament, 15/30 Blinds (9 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com



SB (t2000)

BB (t2000)

UTG (t2000)

UTG+1 (t2000)

MP1 (t2000)

MP2 (t2000)

MP3 (t2000)

Hero (CO) (t2000)

Button (t2000)



Hero's M: 44.44



Preflop: Hero is CO with 3♦, 3♠

2 folds, MP1 calls t30, 1 fold, MP3 calls t30, Hero calls t30, 1 fold, SB calls t15, BB checks



Flop: (t150) 3♣, 4♣, 7♠ (5 players)

SB bets t105, BB calls t105, 2 folds, Hero raises to t480, SB raises to t1970 (All-In), 1 fold, Hero calls t1490 (All-In)



Turn: (t4195) K♣ (2 players, 2 all-in)



River: (t4195) 9♣ (2 players, 2 all-in)



Total pot: t4195

Main pot: t4195 between SB and Hero, won by SB



Results:

SB had A♣, 6♣ (flush, Ace high).

Hero had 3♦, 3♠ (three of a kind, threes).

Outcome: SB won t4195


Viva la flush draws!! NH fishy

Getting back on track

From the last post you can see that I had a bad run. It contenued until I decided to stop for the night. I felt ok about the entire day until the very last set when I felt myself begin to tilt. As soon as my play suffered I called it a night.

The next day was more of the same. I wasn't ready to get back to the grind yet apparently. Strait out of the gate even standard coin flips where getting me tilty. I shut it down for the day. Turned of the poker client, shut down PT3, and turned off Table Ninja. I felt the need to forget about poker and regain my mental composure. If I can't play my best then its not worth playing.

Here is an overview of my month so far. Just 23 games behind pace.
If you click on the picture you can better read it.

When did FT install its doomswitch???

A little warning would be nice Full Tilt. After contacting FT about connection issues yesterday durring my last set I quit for the evening. I think they pressed the wrong button or something. I haven't run this bad ever. I am looking at the worst day of my career. Down $370.50 in only 79 games. Way to build me up then smack me down FT.As soon as I figure out how to make AA beat KJ again I will return to crushing these things.

On a possative note.. I am only 39 games behind pace for 1500.

Variance is a two way street

I think for most poker players variance has come to mean running bad. Honestly, thats the first thing I would think of if I heard someone talking about it. There is however two sides to this coin. Just remember next time you are suffering a downswing that is ruining you day. You have had the best of it before. And you will again.

On the same note,I have been running hot all month so far. I had a small blip yesterday dropping 3 buy ins but tonight was great. Up 14 buy ins in 56 games. I am still a bit behind the volume I set out for myself but I will make it up this weekend.

Month Update
282 games
+$639.00
ROI 21.58%

What a tear!

I have been on a sweet run this month. Partly due to table selection, and part because I am finally getting back my EV from February. I stopped 25 games short of my goal tonight because the other regulars decided to show up in droves. Have fun playing each other boys.

Update for the month
175 games @ $10.50
+$529.50
ROI 28.82 <- LOL Sick

I'll get back to it tomorrow after work. Man I wish the games weren't infested right now. I'm so ready to play.



This is my graph since I came back to my super turbos. Can you tell where this month started.

Welcome to May and a 1,500 game goal

I had an exelent start to the month within my first 30 games. I had an ROI of 83%. Just rediculous really. Its not that I was doing anything new. I seemed to be able to win flips for once. And no 2 outer pp over pp missery. Since then I have been trying to get some volume in. To get my 1,500 games in I need to average 50 a day. Not to bad but I missed the first two days due to work. I have been on a slow climb all morning making $5 here and $9 there until this last set. Its so easy to drop $100.00 in 20 minutes in these things. It got ugly everytime I was on the bubble. When it seems the short stack can't lose and the big stack is a horrible player without a clue. Oh well. I will take a break for a few minutes and get back in it. I still need another 73 games today.

So far this month.
122 games @ $10.50
+$249.00
ROI 19.44%