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Old 07-25-06, 05:14 AM
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After taking some pretty harsh losses in 6-max limit this month, i've started playing more donkaments (mostly on Stars) and it's going pretty well. My Pokertracker doesn't seem to handle tourney results very well, so I track my stats via Sharkscope.com (screenshot attached).

Too anyone who's played a lot of SNGs (JD? TP?), what buy-in level seems to be the best value (i.e. best stakes to average player's skill ratio)? $50-$100??

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Old 07-25-06, 11:39 AM
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I am not the person to ask about that.... I haven't played a SNG for ages and ages.

My GUESS, however, would be that the lowest buy in that has the best juice (ie, 10+1 = 10%; 5+1 = 20%) would be the softest. Then again, if you are good enough to beat the $100 SNGs, for example, you can get away with a far smaller ROI and still have a higher net win.

So I guess, like everything else, it dpeneds.
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Old 07-25-06, 01:51 PM
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i never play SNG's either. ask boobie or mayhem.
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It's been months since I have played SNGs, and the highest I ever played was the $60 turbos (which were definately profitable if I continued to play them). I've heard from others that play SNGs regularly that the skill level is pretty equivalent at the $50-$100 level, but there is a big jump up at the $200 level.
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Old 07-25-06, 02:29 PM
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I play primarily SNGs on 'Stars and Doyle's Room

'Stars for the first half of the year I had a 39.5% ITM and 20.4% ROI at the $50 + 5 singles over 350 tourneys. I've since cashed out most of my BR and am now building up again from the $10 + 1 area. There's a definite break point at the 20-30 level on 'Stars where you'll rarely see someone donk off their entire stack during level 1, but at the 30-50 range, the players are not as random as the lower levels so you can narrow hand ranges down better (but they play the hands better, so its sort of a wash).

At Doyle's, the 10's are much softer than the 10's at 'Stars and you have 4 different level structures to choose from (3 min., 5 min., 8 min., 12 min.). The downside is the games don't go as frequently.
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