PokerRoom.com SNGs

[WarLordAG]

I got a free $20 here and have been working it up playing $5 sngs and a few casino games here and there.

I just played a $10 sng for the first time and couldn't believe how tight it was. It was a great time to blind steal, but if you're not catching much in the way of hands, it catches up to you pretty quick.
The 5's were semi-tight later on, but not hardly as bad as this. There were 7 of us left when the blinds were 75/150. Squeaked into the money eventually.

My question is, are all the 10's like this? Or did I just catch the occasional tight SNG I've encountered time and time before.

[HighestCard]

I've only played pokerroom since ive started poker, and I believe most 10's are very tight, most of the time depending on the time of day. I have seen a few times where there were 6 people left with 300-600 blinds, and numerous times with 7 left and 150-300 blinds and more with 75-150. This probably happens 35-40% of the time. If you try around 9-10 at night, they seem to loosen up a bit, but i think we have to deal with tighter players due to the 1500 starting chips we have, compared to party's 800 with the same blind structure so people naturally become tighter with more time blind wise.

[rokstedy]

uh...no.

[WarLordAG]

I play Stars all the time, which has the 1500 chips and the SNG's are nowhere near as tight.
Should I just stick to Party and Stars then? I really like Poker Room so far. It's a shame.

[HighestCard]

I probably need to branch out to party soon, but you can survive pokerroom, its been profitable for me. I would give it more time if I were you, but I have seen other posts of people complaning about the tightness of pokerroom.

[LearnedfromTV]

I've basically only played on Pokerroom and have played the whole range of SNG's. I can't make a comparison and say Pokerroom is tighter or looser than Party or Stars, but I would not characterize the 10's or 20's as tight.

The 30's and 50's are tighter but contain a lot of bad players, the 100s are generally solid players. The average 10/20 lasts something like 45 minutes, the average 50 about an hour, the average 100 about an hour fifteen. Ballpark estimates and only based on 500 or so SNG's total, most at the 50's and the 20's. I'm a mediocre player who is winning at the 20's and probably deserves to and won but probably shouldn't have in the 50's.

At the 10's you will see a lot of REALLY bad play. From your description I think you played in an anomalous game. Maybe the other sites are looser, but PR is definitely not tight, at least not at the 10s.

[Dan Rutter]

I play pokerrooms 20+2s and I do not think that tight is a good way to describe them. There is some very loose play. There are a couple extra people left when the blinds are higher usually, because you start with a higher chip stack then at party sites, and there is an extra player then on pokerstars.

[Phill S]

The games are tighter than party, and possibly a touch so than stars. But they are quicker than stars to balance it out.

You just gotta adjust, but on the plus side they are still easy. With no effort ive been beating the games for a good clip (high teen ROI atm) - when i get pokertracker i expect it to rise a bit more so as i analyse my play more closely.

10s, too easy
20s, barely any difference - a few longer games than 10s but not massively so
30s, a touch harder - im still crushing them though over a tiny sample range

Average game length for the 20s for me is 36 minutes - i play an uber aggressive mid game however so for a lot of people it may be a bit longer.

Id disagree with anyone who says they are not easy. Im loving my 30% rakeback at betonbet (PR skin); furthermore the fact you can clear bonuses with SnGs is wonderbar.

Phill