1,000 $200+15 sngs Update

[ZeeJustin]

The following is taken from http://www.zeejustin.com/journal.php?journal_id=24

Lately, I have been playing lots of the higher stakes online games. I played a lot of $5/$10 NL, $10/$20 NL, $400+30 sngs and $1000+65 sngs. I knew that playing these games, I wouldn’t be making tons of money because the players are tougher, and grinding it out with tight solid play is not enough in these games. It was a conscious decision on my part based on the fact that I wasn’t learning anything anymore grinding it out in $200+15 sngs, despite the fact that the money there is much better.

Although I’ve been winning over the past couple of months, the money seems to be coming very slowly, and the swings are a bit hefty to say the least. I want a break from these games that require tons of concentration, with little instant reward, so I’m embarking on a quest; one where the sole purpose is to basically make tons of cash as fast as possible.

Over the next two or three weeks, I am going to play 1,000 $200+15 sngs on Eurobet (a Party skin where I get rakeback). I hope to make around $30,000 in this 2-3 week period. As always, my social life comes first, and I may take a trip to Vegas to visit my friends at the WSOP, so the time factor is not crucial. I just want to make sure I get these 1,000 sngs completed before I go back to the games I was playing before. I think I’m going to play 8 tables at a time during the first 500, and I’ll probably finish them off playing 12 tables at a time. That will give me some nice contrast for 8 vs 12 tabling.

I’ll keep you updated on my progress of course. I played two sessions today. In the afternoon, I played for 4 hours and 5 minutes. In the evening, I played for another 5 hours. In this time, I played 94 sngs and made $4,220, which leaves me with $44.89 per sng (plus rakeback). This is a nice start, although I will not pretend to believe that I can keep up this winrate.

Actually, things started off amazingly well. I finished 1st in 5 of my first 10 sngs, and even cashed in 2 more of them. I was running unreal hot. Of course after that, things seemed to reverse, and I couldn’t win a single all-in, but these are just normal swings in poker. As I said, I finished the day well, so I’m very happy with the way things are going, and the outlook of the whole quest.

It’s 4am now, so I’m gonna try to get some sleep. Expect an update just about every day until this quest is over. Thanks for following my progress!

— Justin Bonomo