SNG Ladder Challenge - Intro
SLC - Update 1
Ouch. Getting so close to my $1,000 goal before the Crash & Burn made this return to the mean extra painful.
At the $100 level & needing a win to get to $972, I managed to get HU with about 60% of the chips, but got badly outplayed. Unfortunately, although that 2nd left me with a healthy $772 SLC balance, a trend of overly LAGgy early play and 3 poor bubble plays led to some unneccessary exits and 2 rungs down to the $30 level.
This has defnitely been fun & educational for me though, if a bit frustrating.
A couple of obvious lessons learned 1st hand:
No surprise, but there are clearly fewer LAGs self-destructing and/or donating chips on draws in most of the $50s and $100s (as compared to $10-$30s). So inthe $50+ SNGs I've been fairly consistently a short-ish to medium stack by the time we're 4 5, or 6-handed, often at the $50-$100 or even the $100-$200 or $150$-$130 levels. Couple that with drastically improved bubble play from opponents (better than mine I'm fairly sure) & this has been a tough stretch.
Shocker- it's less fun to finish OTM in 7 SNGs in a row than finishing 1st in 4 of 6.
On an encouraging note, my very small sample of short-term results in the $10s-$30s have been solid, and the auto-drop down the ladder when I go below 5 buy-ins is keeping this experiment alive & kicking. A pre-determined structure is a nice anti-tilt measure- I tend to go UP in limits when I lose, so the SLC disarms my own self-destruction device.
J
SNG Finishes: 44% ITM, 14% ROI, Avg=4.4
1) $30, $5+$1, 10 -> $24
2) $24, $5+$1, 8 -> $18
3) $18, $5+$1, 3 -> $22
4) $22, $5+$1, 1 -> $41
5) $41, $5+$1, 2 -> $50
6) $50, $5+$1, 6 -> $44
7) $44, $5+$1, 9 -> $38
8) $38, $5+$1, 2 -> $47
9) $47, $5+$1, 4 -> $41
10) $41, $5+$1, 2 -> $50
11) $50, $5+$1, 2 -> $59
UP to $10 rung: 12) $59, $10+$1, 1 -> $98
13) $98, $10+$1, 1 -> $137
UP to $20 rung: 14) $137, $20+$2, 6 -> $115
15) $115, $20+$2, 1 -> $193
UP to $30 rung: 16) $193, $30+$3, 6 -> $160
DOWN to $20 rung: 17) $160, $20+$2, 1 -> $238
UP to $30 rung: 18) $238, $30+$3, 1 -> $355
UP to $50 rung: 19) $355, $50+$5, 8 -> $300
20) $300, $50+$5, 6 -> $245
DOWN to $30 rung: 21) $245, $30+$3, 3 -> $272
22) $272, $30+$3, 9 -> $239
23) $239, $30+$3, 1 -> $356
UP to $50 rung: 24) $356, $50+$5, 6 -> $301
25) $301, $50+$5, 1 -> $496
26) $496, $50+$5, 5 -> $441
27) $441, $50+$5, 6 -> $386
28) $386, $50+$5, 1 -> $581
UP to $100 rung: 29) $581, $100+$9, 2 -> $772
30) $772, $100+$9, 6 -> $663
31) $663, $100+$9, 4 -> $554
32) $554, $100+$9, 2 -> $745
33) $745, $100+$9, 10 -> $636
34) $636, $100+$9, 5 -> $527
DOWN to $50 rung: 35) $527, $50+$5, 9 -> $472
36) $472, $50+$5, 4 -> $417
37) $417, $50+$5, 9 -> $362
38) $362, $50+$5, 7 -> $307
39) $307, $50+$5, 4 -> $252
DOWN to $30 rung: 40) $252, $30+$3, 4 -> $219
41) $219, $30+$3, 7 -> $186
42) $186, $30+$3, 2 -> $243
43) $243, $30+$3, 3 -> $270