Lost...

Well I spent a lot of time to move up to the 22's and have finished 100 sng's.
The numbers are so bad it makes me want to puke. i have kept track of all of the times i was all in and have run well below expectation but i still think i'm missing something. if i ran at expectation i'd probably only have an roi between 5 and 8%.

through 100:

ROI -- -15.02%
1sts -- 5
2nds -- 14
3rds -- 18

ITM -- 37%
Avg Finish -- 4.23

I'm disgusted with the results. I am close to my bankroll floor before i move back down to the $11+1s to rebuild. I'm working really hard on my game. I wish the results were better. Any Sng suggestions would be appreciated.

and i'm movin on up....

through 350 sng's i've reached a goal that allows me to move up to the 22+2 sng's. i'm currently in 192nd place on the low limit sng leaderboard... my stats were:

ROI-- 12.41%
ITM-- 41.71%
1sts -- 46
2nds --47
3rds --53

I have made over $500 in profit at this level and am looking forward to the next challenge. I will start the 22's today. I am very excited.

On a side note:
Great job to Rex55 on FullTilt in the Sunday Main Event... You played amazing poker and the Main Event Blue Lights are coming your way.

302 SNG's in....

Here are the most recent numbers.....

Total -- 302 played
ROI --10.88%
1sts -- 39
2nds -- 41
3rds -- 44


ITM -- 41.06%
As of this morning I was one spot off the FT low stakes SNG leaderboard.... 251st place... we'll see where I'm at tomorrow.... I played 25 today and only had 1 win... but 7 seconds... it took until the 25th time til I got that win. Hopefully I can get in around 50 SNG's tomorrow.

200 SNG update plus AC trip

200 Sng's In

Stats:

ROI -- 11.33%
1sts -- 27
2nds -- 25
3rds -- 30

ITM --41%
AVG Finish -- 4.11

My win total is lower than I'd like to be but my ITM went up as did my ROI. I'm looking forward to the next 100.

Live Update:

I went to the Borg again for a lil live action. I played 1/2 again and picked up 219 in 4 hrs. I won a pick pot when my AA held off JT on a flop of J98 rainbow.... 2 on the turn.... 8 on the river. I'm not as happy with my play as the other day. I missed a definite value bet which would have gotten me another 20-35 dollars.

After AC update...

Went down to the Borgata yesterday afternoon with my roommate to play a little poker.... the room was packed due to the Winter Open. There were 6 5/10 NL games running which I used to play on a daily basis. But to be honest my bankroll isn't what it used to be and I'm not financially ready to play in that game again so I considered a 2/5 NL game. There was a list and my roommate is kind of new to AC cash games so I figured I'd sit with him at a 1/2 NL game and try to teach him. We played about 5 hrs. I really played probably as solid of a game as I could. There are few times I leave the Borg without regretting a single play I made. I didn't win a single huge pot like I normally do. No big hands to mention... Just two well played marginal hands that won decent pots. I picked up $146. Very happy about that... and chances are I'll go on Monday too as my roommate is pumped up to play again.

Online World:

I played some Sng's before I went to AC and did ok in my morning session. The late session I played starting at about 10 pm. I lost about 65-70% of my all in's that were a coin flip or better in 12 SNG's. I had 1 2nd and 3 3rds. Not a great session by any stretch. I was pretty steamed when I went to bed.

Now I'm done for today (Saturday) because I'm going to Philly to visit some friends and today I ran well. Had some solid results too. I played 27 SNG's.

I had
4 -- 1sts
7 -- 2nds
4 -- 3rds

that turns into an ROI of 49.7% for the day. Not bad but I'm still disappointed in the fact that there should have been more 1sts than 2nds but I didn't run great HU. From the HU perspective based on expectation I probably should have had at least 6 or 7 wins but overall I can't complain about the day. I've played 170 SNG's overall and will have a 200 SNG total update by tomorrow I'm sure.

after 101 sngs....

*****Update*****

i'm just through 101 $11+1 Turbo SNG's
ROI -- 9.37%
Cash Percentage -- 36.63%
1st -- 17
2nd -- 9
3rd -- 11

I'm keeping in mind that I had one of the worst runs of luck in this stretch. So hopefully after 200 I can at least get the ROI to 15% and the cash percentage should be somewhere in the 40% range. These stats don't include the run I went on before I restarted PokerTracker and cashed in 7 in a row.

SNG fever....

I've determined that toiling away at these small tournaments isn't for me... i built my bankroll at partypoker starting at the $10 single table sng's. i want to be able to play $24, $50, and $69 tournaments whenever i want and not worry about the effect it'll have on my bankroll. if i sit and wait for the $500 score at a $10 MTT, i'll never get where i need to be. so my intermediate goal is to get my bankroll over $2k. At that point I'll have no problem playing any of the $24's. Until then it's $11+1 Turbo SNG's until i reach my goal with the $10 MTT's mixed in. I played 66 SNG's and 2 $10 MTT's. i finished just out of the money in the MTT's and did very well in the SNG's. I restarted my PokerTracker software yesterday and will give you an update on my ROI after 100 total, 200 total.... etc. It'll be a grind but I've had no problem playing 4 tables at a time, and until I build my bankroll properly I feel like i'll just be stuck in quicksand. Wish me luck! By the way, I'm on my way down to the Borgata tomorrow. It's about 2:15 am now so in about 10 hours I'll be at my old stomping grounds.

Lil Update...

Two days ago I started playing some sng's again. I figured I could handle two open tables at a time... So if I was playing an MTT, I would keep playing $11+1 Turbo's in the meantime. I managed to pull off a streak of 7 straight cashes... (2 wins, 4 seconds, 1 third). These are the way I built my bankroll and need to make sure that they're a part of my daily schedule. Using Sng's I managed to build my bankroll from under $100 to over $2000 once before. I need to do it again so I can play the bigger MTT's.

Yesterday I had a big stack in a 350 person $10 MTT with about 70 to go. Just where I wanted to be. I happened to loose two decent pots with AA. Once against KQ and the other against 89s with about 27 to go. Then I ran card dead and pretty much was blinded out. I had 4 BB's at the 600/1200 BB level. I shoved T9 on the button and got a call from JT. I didn't get lucky and was out 19th.