How many SNGs a month/week ?

[KennyBanya]

For those who use SNG's as a primary source of income, I would like to how many tournies it is realistic to play per week and per month. Lets assume 4 tabling max at Party Poker only. I feel like I could get in 1000 per month, I would like to know if many of you are doing that now, and is there a big burnout/monotony factor? What about 10000+ per year, is this realistic?

Thank You

KennyBanya

[Marcotte]

If you play 22 days/month (8 days off) you need to play 46/day. If you can play six tournies per hour, thats 7 hrs, 40 min a day.

I get tired after playing 4-5 tournies in a couple hours. I doubt I could multi-table 4 for longer than 3 hours, although I'm sure some can do it. Just remember to focus your eyes on something far away every 5-10 min. The biggest health risk facing professional poker players these days is monitor-related eye strain /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[dogsballs]

~30/day with some ring games and multis thrown in to mix it up. I play 5 days/wk for a regular kinda schedule.

Burnout's bad sometimes; just gotta say feck it and go take a day or two off totally. I just came bacck from a 4 day trip, which was sorely needed.

[lorinda]

Burnout's bad sometimes; just gotta say feck it and go take a day or two off totally. I just came bacck from a 4 day trip, which was sorely needed.

This is the number one most ignored piece of good advice.

Lori

[dogsballs]

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Burnout's bad sometimes; just gotta say feck it and go take a day or two off totally. I just came bacck from a 4 day trip, which was sorely needed.

This is the number one most ignored piece of good advice.

Lori

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yeah, if you're burnt out or take a monster beat, like having your AA cracked against KK and AK, you sometimes need that break... /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[dogsballs]

just adding to the taking a break thing.

I play a regular joe week - ie, mon-fri ~10am-6pm, roughly speaking (time zone here helps a lot there). With some mornings/afternoons off here and there for whatever.

but the sat and sun's I often don't play at all, or only a small amount on sunday maybe. I believe this helps a huge amount in keeping me sane and my game sharp (...relatively speaking that is; you could say my game ain't so sharp anyway.. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif).

prob worth another thread somewhere, but heck, I'm gonna take a break instead...

[Gramps]

1,000 per month 4-tabling is quite a bit. If you restart a new SNG right away once you get knocked out, then time-wise it's doable (say 40/hours per week, maybe even a tad less), but I've found it's much more grueling/has a negative impact EV-wise when you get down shorthanded (always having 3 other games to concentrate on).

I usually start 4 at once, then don't re-start any more until I finish all of them (unless I get knocked out of one in the first orbit). I took 10 days completely off last month and still got in 750. That's a very "comfortable" number, I've found. But I actually (still) very much like playing online poker & SNGs...so if you start getting really sick of poker period, even 750/month could be tough to maintain.

[Sponger15SB]

dog-

do you think it is wise to rarely play on saturday and sunday becausearen't the players statistically worse on the weekend?

wouldn't it be better to take a monday and tuesday off or something?

[dogsballs]

do you think it is wise to rarely play on saturday and sunday becausearen't the players statistically worse on the weekend?


ask my girlfriend that question... /images/graemlins/crazy.gif

more to life than poker

[Sponger15SB]

fair enough.

also to the original poster my plan is to play 200 SNGs a week however since this was before I realized how many I can play in one day I'll probably end up playing 250 a week.

[DalaiLama]

dogsballs, I'd like some feed back....From a game selection stand point, it sounds like you're not utilizing an obvious advantage. ***Note*** I don't know what time zone you're in.
Is it the fact that a normal schedule is worth a few percentage point ROI loss?

[stripsqueez]

i played something like 700 last month and i had a 10 day holiday when i played none

i dont get burnout much if at all but i'm an addicted game player - if it wasnt SNG's it would be something else

i reckon 1,000 a month is a big number - doable but tiring

stripsqueez - chickenhawk

[dogsballs]

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dogsballs, I'd like some feed back....From a game selection stand point, it sounds like you're not utilizing an obvious advantage. ***Note*** I don't know what time zone you're in.
Is it the fact that a normal schedule is worth a few percentage point ROI loss?

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I'm in Hawaii, so i'm in a good spot. 10am here = 3pm EST (I think) and my clock off at 7pm would be midnight there. So I'm not too bad that way.

And I think I'm not really dropping ROI, since that would likely drop some by stayin up late or whatever.

[dogsballs]

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i played something like 700 last month and i had a 10 day holiday when i played none

i dont get burnout much if at all but i'm an addicted game player - if it wasnt SNG's it would be something else

i reckon 1,000 a month is a big number - doable but tiring

stripsqueez - chickenhawk

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most I've done in a month is about 500. 1000 might kill me.