08-17-2005, 04:03 PM
I'M NOT GIGABET.
So I've been playing SNGs for the last few months and crushing the lower level games. I have over 500 sngs in the 10s, 20s & 30s and winning stats thorughout them. I was killing the games by playing an uber-tight ABC poker, just get me in the money strategy. In other words, I wouldn't bluff or try to steal blinds unless I had a big stack. And I wouldn't go into push mode until I was down to about 5BB. Now I'm not saything that this is a good strategy but I had ITM in the mid 40s and ROI in the high 20s for all three levels. This even considering that I had some downswings of over 20-30 buy-ins in all the levels. So I wasn't just running hot. And then...
I kept trolling the sight and reading Gigabet posts. And decided that I playing way too weak/tight. So I started opening up my game (playing marginal hands with position) and abusing the table with a big stack on the bubble. Pretty typical 2+2 tactics. And I watched my stats drop through the ground, and keep going down and down.
My thinking would go something like this. I'm the big stack, so I'm going to try and steal the blinds. But then the BB comes back over the top of me. In my head I'd say, "This is probably a 40/60 and I'm going to re-raise this re-raise...cause these are the calls that win tournaments" and then I'd lose the hand. And continue to raise like a maniac until I was knocked out a few hands later. Then I assumed everyone was playing like me and started calling everyone down with junk.
Everything changed after I reread a Gigabet post where he says that he pushed on a hand because if he simply bet, then someone would come over the top of him for all his chips. And then I had an epiphany, I'm not Gigabet, the people I play against don't play like Giagbet or his opponents. Nope I play low limit SNGs with opponents who shoot themselves in the foot if you just give them a chance. I slept well that night.
Since then my numbers have jumped back up through the roof and I've kept reading the Gigabet posts, so I'll be ready for him when I move up to that level. I'm coming for ya.
So I've been playing SNGs for the last few months and crushing the lower level games. I have over 500 sngs in the 10s, 20s & 30s and winning stats thorughout them. I was killing the games by playing an uber-tight ABC poker, just get me in the money strategy. In other words, I wouldn't bluff or try to steal blinds unless I had a big stack. And I wouldn't go into push mode until I was down to about 5BB. Now I'm not saything that this is a good strategy but I had ITM in the mid 40s and ROI in the high 20s for all three levels. This even considering that I had some downswings of over 20-30 buy-ins in all the levels. So I wasn't just running hot. And then...
I kept trolling the sight and reading Gigabet posts. And decided that I playing way too weak/tight. So I started opening up my game (playing marginal hands with position) and abusing the table with a big stack on the bubble. Pretty typical 2+2 tactics. And I watched my stats drop through the ground, and keep going down and down.
My thinking would go something like this. I'm the big stack, so I'm going to try and steal the blinds. But then the BB comes back over the top of me. In my head I'd say, "This is probably a 40/60 and I'm going to re-raise this re-raise...cause these are the calls that win tournaments" and then I'd lose the hand. And continue to raise like a maniac until I was knocked out a few hands later. Then I assumed everyone was playing like me and started calling everyone down with junk.
Everything changed after I reread a Gigabet post where he says that he pushed on a hand because if he simply bet, then someone would come over the top of him for all his chips. And then I had an epiphany, I'm not Gigabet, the people I play against don't play like Giagbet or his opponents. Nope I play low limit SNGs with opponents who shoot themselves in the foot if you just give them a chance. I slept well that night.
Since then my numbers have jumped back up through the roof and I've kept reading the Gigabet posts, so I'll be ready for him when I move up to that level. I'm coming for ya.