200 SNG's in two weeks

[Windbreaker]

By strictly looking at your the places you finish alone, there's too many finishes at the 5-7 spot. 40% of your results are ending in that slot is a lot. I would recommend trying to push more aggressively when it's on the bubble than when there's 6-7 players left. The blinds should be higher when there's 4-5 players left, making it more advantageous to play aggressively allowing for more blind steals.

[Talking Poker]

I don't really have any advice, but I'm impressed that you are doing this and I'm glad to see you posting the results. It's something I've been considering doing (next month), just to see what my numbers end up being. I don't think I'll be able to make as high an hourly rate as I do playing cash games though.

[nflchad]

Tone, I'm 4-tabling the 22's, which I (suprisingly) don't find to be hurting me. The only time I have any trouble is when I manage to make it ITM or on the bubble on all of the tables.

I don't think that I am misplaying a great deal of my hands when I'm on the bubble but I do attempt to push the mid stacks around. When I get three handed I think my problem is that I have trouble switching gears to immediately laying off my pressuring style, and allowing the short stacks to bust in front of me. I think heads up I typically get my money in as a 55% favorite for all my chips, and thats that.

One of the things that is regarded as proper on another board is to just push in if you intend to call or raise more than 35% of your stack. Which late can be most hands that I do elect to play, including steals, I think that I have been fairly unlucky in this regard when running into big hands.

BTW 77 down and my ROI is now 9.8%, and the distribution of my ITM finishes is begining to even out.

Some of the observations I've made while playing:
*100 SNG's is not nearly enough to weed out variance
*22 players love to limp in for a large portion of their stacks
*Overbets in cash games(by fish)=big hands, overbets in SNG's(by fish)=big bluffs (not always but with no other info this is my assumption).
*SNG's on party last 40-55 minutes
*These can be very very profitable
*Downswings suck

[Windbreaker]

Starting my own SNG challenge on Poker Stars as part of the reload. I stictly play two player $10+1SNG's. I have done this in the past with quite a bit of success. So I'll periodically post updates of my results during this reload. My initial plan is to finish the bonus stictly playing 150 SNG's.

Number of SNG's 12
Buy In Total Amount $132
Finished
1 - 2
2 - 1
3 - 2
4
5 - 1
6 - 1
7
8
9 or worse - 5
Total Profit +$138
ROI = 138/132 = 105%
ITM - 5/12 = 41.7%
Remaining SNG's towards Bonus - 138

[Talking Poker]

I'm glad you guys are posting this. I think it's cool....

One question Windbreaker - if you are playing "two player" SNGs, isn't finishing worse than second really, really bad?

How have you been doing, nutbag?

[Windbreaker]

Opps, meant two table SNG's. I like how the chips and blinds move for two table. On one table, the blinds move so slow, that when you end up down to 2 or 3 players, the blinds are so small compared to the stacks that just makes the game drags on for too long. So might as well try to make more money on the 2 table SNG's. The play seems rather poor for it....I have thought about moving up to 20+2, but I don't really want the swings and don't really want to play against 4-5 more solid players. Usually find about half the field in the 10+1 to be rather poor players

[Talking Poker]

Interesting. I typically prefer slower moving blinds, but you make some good points here.