Tonight I logged my first session of poker after officially becoming part of the "poker blogger community." It appears to have pleased the mighty and fickle poker gods as they smiled upon me this evening and let me pull out a winning session from what seemed to be utter disaster initially.
I am mostly a SNG player, partially because I enjoy the idea of taking all of the chips on the table...and partially because I'm better at math than I am at poker. Generally I play turbo SNGs because I feel that players make more fundamental math errors (especially at the levels I'm playing at) when the blinds are moving faster.
Tonight I played through 10 SNGs at various buy-ins and 1 $10/1 MTT.
I played in the $4.5k Guarantee tonight on Bodog and I put together about the worst performance I've had in a MTT in a long time. I just leaked chips until I was short eventually and busted before the first break putting my money in as a huge dog. My MTT game has been off since I final tabled the $4.5k about a week ago, I just haven't been able to put anything big together.
My SNGs didn't start out much better than my MTTs as I only cashed in 1 of my first 5. I was running badly and as a result playing worse. I'm the kind of player that tends to make aggressive mistakes when I'm not running well. I overplay draws and will begin to overestimate my fold equity on almost every single hand. This can either lead to me getting lucky (obv preferrable) or me suddenly turning into one giant tilting machine that can't play enough tables at a time trying to get even and getting myself stuck even deeper. Luckily I was able to catch myself tonight and refocus my game before I did any irreversible damage to my roll.
Over my next 5 SNGs I cashed in 4 including a 1st in a $6/,5, 2nd in a $15/1, and 3rd in a $25/2. That was enough to get me not only even for the night, but up about $36. It was a great comeback for the evening for me. This may not sound significant to everyone else, but I very rarely win if I start my session on a hard downturn. More than likely I was able to turn it around because I didn't want to have to post losing stats on my first real post on the blog.
The Roll = $887.34 (I still have yet to break 900 and I've been dancing around it recently)
So I suppose doing this may have some value after all...
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4 comments:
I totally agree with you about the turbo SnG's. People panick before they need to. I learned how to play the turbo token races on Full Tilt by watching smoke fold down to 800 chips or so sometimes. (Although I'm not the best person to talk about patience...haha).
It works well and I've accumulated a few of those babies.
Gl at the tables
seems strange that you would play such a wide range of sng buy-ins during one session.
any positive session is a good one. nice turnaround.
well as far as my buy-in range goes...i'm just on the bottom edge of being rolled for the $25 games (with my bankroll rules) so right now i basically "take shots" with those games. i'd rather play the $15 games right now but they don't run often enough of bodog and i like to have 3 tables running at a time. so since i've been crushing the $6 games i'm usually in 2 of those and 1 $15.
i only play 1 $25 table a session.
Sounds like you're doing well over and that you are playing the game you excel at. Keep it up.
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