samr
07-06-2005, 06:26 PM
Hi,
I've been playing on Stars since January ($5+.50, occasional $10+1) and had great success in about 700 SNGs, usually 1- or 2- tabling them for two hours a day, but 4- or 5- tabling them since the middle of May. I had a 45% ITM rate and a 28% ROI during that time following basic SNG strategy I've studied here and elsewhere: tight early, aggressive late.
Someone told me how the games at Party/Empire Poker were ludicrously soft, so I decided to sign up at Empire under a rakeback deal and start playing $5+1 SNGs, even though everyone here advised against it. This summer, I decided to play poker (mostly recreationally) while I'm not working part-time. I deposited $60 and started playing on July 1st.
I've now played 127 SNGs (very very small sample size, I know) and have a 45.8% ITM rate and an 18.3% ROI, but the ITM distribution doesn't seem great: 16-18-26-15-22. The smaller starting stack led to me having a small (4-6 BBs) stack near the bubble, where my maniacal pushes had less FE than at Stars. I've been bubbling more often on Empire, and seem to lose too many 60/40 or coinflips on/near the bubble, especially against the horrid calling stations that don't mind calling their K9s against my AJ. Am I correct in assuming that there are fewer calling stations at higher limits?
Now, I have $237 on Empire and want to move up soon to maximize $/hr. I also want to continue 4-tabling with a minimal RoR. I've gone through three 5-7 OOTM stretches already and want to make sure one of these stretches at the $10+1 level doesn't cripple me. How many buyins should I have before I move up? Keep in mind the extra rake the $5 SNGs charge.
Also, quick question: For those of you who use AleoMagus's spreadsheet and have rakeback, what do you do for accurate ROI/stats? Enter rake as 74c instead of $1 (for 26% rakeback)?
Thanks,
Sam.
I've been playing on Stars since January ($5+.50, occasional $10+1) and had great success in about 700 SNGs, usually 1- or 2- tabling them for two hours a day, but 4- or 5- tabling them since the middle of May. I had a 45% ITM rate and a 28% ROI during that time following basic SNG strategy I've studied here and elsewhere: tight early, aggressive late.
Someone told me how the games at Party/Empire Poker were ludicrously soft, so I decided to sign up at Empire under a rakeback deal and start playing $5+1 SNGs, even though everyone here advised against it. This summer, I decided to play poker (mostly recreationally) while I'm not working part-time. I deposited $60 and started playing on July 1st.
I've now played 127 SNGs (very very small sample size, I know) and have a 45.8% ITM rate and an 18.3% ROI, but the ITM distribution doesn't seem great: 16-18-26-15-22. The smaller starting stack led to me having a small (4-6 BBs) stack near the bubble, where my maniacal pushes had less FE than at Stars. I've been bubbling more often on Empire, and seem to lose too many 60/40 or coinflips on/near the bubble, especially against the horrid calling stations that don't mind calling their K9s against my AJ. Am I correct in assuming that there are fewer calling stations at higher limits?
Now, I have $237 on Empire and want to move up soon to maximize $/hr. I also want to continue 4-tabling with a minimal RoR. I've gone through three 5-7 OOTM stretches already and want to make sure one of these stretches at the $10+1 level doesn't cripple me. How many buyins should I have before I move up? Keep in mind the extra rake the $5 SNGs charge.
Also, quick question: For those of you who use AleoMagus's spreadsheet and have rakeback, what do you do for accurate ROI/stats? Enter rake as 74c instead of $1 (for 26% rakeback)?
Thanks,
Sam.