Steps

[MS Sunshine]

I've been playing Steps this week. 0-2 at the $500 level which is pretty sad since you don't have to do more than win A hand and stay out of trouble to advance to the $1000 level.

I came in playing on the $50 level. I decided to play a level win a few seats and move up after I worked at DM the current level and the one above. DM is a pain with losing half your tables every 45 minutes or so.

When I take my last $500 freeroll I think I will enter from the $200 level, because even though the play is better than the $50 level I saw a lot of clear strategy mistakes for such a flat payoff structure.

The $500 and $1000 levels have excellent players, few outright fish, making these levels zero earn for me. Not the kind of spot I like, added varience and no added earn<shudder>. With reseaching the the list of signed up players I feel less than 20% of the fields are playable to me. I was watching a $1000 fill up with 17-9-3(VP$P-PFR-Ag. total postflop) player-types when I saw a respected poster here sign up as #18. Granted that good percentages don't mean that the player will play properly for the flat-payoff at the $500, but he was playing with many good players, like himself, under a normal two table payoff. While he is a much better player than myself the complete lack of game selection surprised me.

MS Sunshine