I've played 6 of these and broken even, iop staked me for 5 of them previously and I managed to break even over all of them, was the first time I've really played anything bigger than a 18man SNG. If anyone is interested in staking me for even two of these I'd give 40% profit back.
I want to start playing these consistently but at the moment my roll is only at $120 so I need to grind the 1/18s for a while longer before I can do it. With a stake hopefully I can boost my roll and make some money for you and I to get me closer to playing these.
So I'm still doing pretty well in the $1/18mans, but there are some things I still need to really work on which I think will help my play immensely.
Firstly, ranges, there are times in a SNG where I have trouble deciding if some hands are +EV to call/shove or not, even if they turn out to be a very profitable/unprofitable play. I need to learn the math to this as at the moment I only understand it very basically.
Secondly, I need to discipline to watch my tables a bit more, I know they're only $1 SNGs but I find I play my best when I'm not talking on MSN, watching a movie in the corner of my screen or reading LP/P5s, I need to concentrate more on the players around me. I think my strength in poker is my observation/memory abilities, I need to hone these.
Thirdly, ICM, obviously I know what it is and the basics of it but I really want to get into the nitty gritty stuff, I've downloaded Pokerstove and SNG Power tools but I'm still very much learning how to use them.
If anyone has any good links to the basics of ranges/ICM as well as guides to pokerstove and SNGPT please reply here!
When my BR allows I'll be moving up to the $4/180s so the importance of these things will increase dramatically. Also, if anyone wants to stake me for a few $4/180s I'll share a 50% profit, I've only broken even over my first 4.
GLGLGL!
Last 3 entries have been pretty boring so here's a picture of me with some chimps from my holiday to Thailand last year.
So I'm still grinding out the $1 18mans, have an ROI of about 25% over a few hundred of those which is ok I think.
Also after iop staked me for five 4/180s I broke even. Was the first time I'd ever played any of those but was fun, if anyone else would like to stake me for a few of them I'd offer 40% profit, they're out of my BR range atm so I can't play them with my own money
Still looking for a part time job, worst time of year to be doing it because every other 17/18yr old out of year 12 is also looking for one -.- I was too slow off the start of the year so now I'm regretting it, having no money to do anything.
I've finished all the Harringtons now and I'm picking up Sklansky's Theory of Poker as well as Colin Moshmans SNG book on Monday which should be pretty solid and hopefully boost my skill a little further.
Last 2 days I've been running pretty horribly, can't count the number of flips I've lost or times I've lost with AK/AQ to AJ/AT/KQ etc, oh well, thats why these $1 donks are so profitable I guess ^^
So iop staked me for 5 4/180s on Stars, I broke exactly even coming 9th in one and 11th in another, the first two I bombed out at 30th-40th, both times I had top two, got my chips in on the flop and both times got called by bottom pair only to see them hit runner-runner flush, twice. GG.
In the one I came 9th on I was sitting about 6th in chips on the final table, folded to me on the button, I shove 77, BB (huge stack) calls with AK and flops a full house, gg there.
When I came 12th I was pretty much average stack, I had AQ in cutoff, raised 3.5xBB and BB called, flop came 7Q2rainbow, BB checked, I bet the pot, he calls, turn is a blank, he checks, I shove, he calls and shows QQ
Oh well
Anyways for pretty much my first MTTs I think I did ok, thanks iop for staking me, hopefully I can see out grinding these $1 18mans and start playing these on a regular basis.
Anyways was really good playing for some bigger money than the usual $1 18mans. If anyone else would be interested in staking me for 2 or 3 of these bad boys let me know and I'll try to take one down for you
Well last week or so I've been playing less but winning more, after big drop in my BR to about $15 as a result of a downswing and tilt I'm back up to roughly $90 which is where I started at, but I'm happy, check out my sharkscope if you like; xghjase @ stars. That huge downswing is a result of losing 16 out of 18 coinflips and then going on tilt and playing $5 HU and still getting my chips in good and losing.
I'd really like to take a shot at a $4/180man but I think it's probably bad bankroll management if I do so I'm going to ask my friend Mishca to stake me for it and I'll give him 40% of profits, he's been playing really solid poker on Pokerstars also lately and is doing well for himself in both low-limit SNGs and some low-limit MTTs.
This week I'm going to be searching for a job for the year while I defer from university, it's starting to get difficult with no money and I already owe my parents $400 from schoolies (basically its like a spring break for aussies after they finish year 12), so I feel bad asking to borrow from them in the meantime.
Also I've been playing live poker in the local leagues, I'm coming top 10 out of about 500 people in one local league so I'll be able to play in the State final at Crown Casino in March next year which will be so awesome! That leaderboard can be found here; http://npl.com.au/Leaderboards.aspx?ID=4 - I'm jase blennerhassett.
Last night I played in a league I'm still pretty new to called APL (Australian Poker League), I've only played there a few times but I've become pretty well known making final table twice in my first two events, usually there's about 110 people but it's expanding every week. Last night at APL I got drawn out for the regional final which is in a few weeks which should be pretty sweet, it'll be a slower blind structure I hope instead of blinds doubling every 15min which they do at each event currently.
Reading through the 'Post your setup' thread is pretty cool so here's a picture of a 17yr old ballas setup;
BTW Goanna Oil (top left of the picture) is I use to keep my pet goanna nice and shiny and also the best thing to clean out my pet kangaroos pouch before I jump in it on the way into town
HAHA, almost forgot, I laughed pretty hard at this today - http://my.break.com/Content/view.aspx?ContentID=455084
Also if any rich people with tens of thousands of dollars would be interested in staking me for a few (and by a few I literally mean only 2 or 3) $4 /180 I'd give you 40% profit, just don't want to get into the habit of bad BR management, AGAIN.
armory doesnt really do it justice, it has 70 epic maces/swords/daggers, and heaps of other armor, theres a dps set and a pvp set, also netherblade etc
anyways willing to trade for pokerstars funds or maybe even some sng lessons. ty
also BR has gone up from 20 to ~$60 in the last few days thanks to 18man SNGS
So in my previous blog I wrote about some leaks I think I have in my game, it seems I'm just in a habit of doing these things, whats the best way to get rid of them?
I was thinking of doing pushups every time I realise I do it or doing some arm curls or something like that?
Also chobo if you read this can you PM me with SNG teaching rates?
GLGLGL
Ok, so after going through some PT stuff I think I've found a few leaks in my SNG game.
- I feel even if I have middle pair top kicker after the flop I'm beaten, I'm folding too much to cont. bets on the flop
- I don't chase flushes/straights enough when the pot odds are in my favour.
- I don't take enough time to think about what an opponent could be holding, I need to play the hand out in my head before making a decision.
- I see bets on the turn/river being huge even though a lot of the time they're only half the pot. Gotta be less scared of these.
- I don't bet big enough after the flop. I let people draw at flushes/straights too cheaply.
- I'm too choosy with what hands I raise pre-flop with, letting too many people in when I'm holding a big hand.
- I don't loosen up enough around the bubble.
- I'm too wary of position, often I won't play AQs in EP.
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