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#31
05-02-2005, 01:59 PM
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Re: How much do you think you lost playing SNGs before you became a wi
September 2004: $210 into 2/4, $50 more at 0.5/1, $100 at NL SnG's
October 2004: another $50 at 0.5/1, somehow made +$300 playing limit SnG's November 2004: reality hits, lose $450 playing SnG's like a fish, get within $100 of busting my original $500 bankroll. December 2004: find 2+2, pull head out of butt, haven't had a losing month since Slim 
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#32
05-02-2005, 02:34 PM
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Re: How much do you think you lost playing SNGs before you became a wi
same as almost everyone else- I deposted $50 into party poker and, beginning with the 10s then moving up, built it into several thousand.
I find it interesting that almost everyone here started off winning. Given that variation is so strong it would seem like 30-50% of us would have started off losing. I bet that the only reason we are in SNGs is because we didn't start off cold. There are probably many players that are or would have been very good at SnGs that started off in a cold streak and stoped playing because they got discouraged. If I had lost the original $50 i put into Party Poker (very easy to do) I probably would have never come back simply because I was starting out and didn't realize the high variance involved.
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#33
05-02-2005, 02:40 PM
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Re: How much do you think you lost playing SNGs before you became a wi
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I find it interesting that almost everyone here started off winning. [/ QUOTE ] You shouldn't. 2+2 is a self selecting % of the poker playing community. Most are experiencing the lighter side of variance for long, extended periods of time. I'd actually expect most posters to have ridden heaters early on in their poker career at some point. What's interesting is that very few posters realize they are riding heaters and/or on an extended run of good variance. Players who don't experience these things don't find their way to 2+2....they quit. Yugoslav
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#34
05-02-2005, 02:40 PM
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Re: How much do you think you lost playing SNGs before you became a wi
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I find it interesting that almost everyone here started off winning. [/ QUOTE ] Or at least almost everyone here willing to post on this thread [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] Pokerscott
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#35
05-02-2005, 02:49 PM
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Re: How much do you think you lost playing SNGs before you became a wi
I am proud of my initial losing period. Wear your downswings like scars. Chicks dig scars.
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#36
05-02-2005, 02:50 PM
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Re: How much do you think you lost playing SNGs before you became a wi
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I find it interesting that almost everyone here started off winning. [/ QUOTE ] I didn't start off playing SnG. So I had my growing pains playing ring tables.
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#37
05-02-2005, 03:02 PM
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Re: How much do you think you lost playing SNGs before you became a wi
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September 2004: $210 into 2/4, $50 more at 0.5/1, $100 at NL SnG's October 2004: another $50 at 0.5/1, somehow made +$300 playing limit SnG's November 2004: reality hits, lose $450 playing SnG's like a fish, get within $100 of busting my original $500 bankroll. December 2004: find 2+2, pull head out of butt, haven't had a losing month since Slim [/ QUOTE ] Thanks for the honest reply Slim. I don't feel so bad but then again, my pockets aren't as deep. I got schooled at limit losing half my BR my first several months. Found SnG and made it all back in like a week with what I call the beginners run (doesn't it seem like all new SnG players have a run??). Began losing in the SnG arena, found 2+2 and leveled off. Still not back to my original $ level and have been card dead for like 3 weeks. Still at 1/2 my original BR and moving back to Limit for a while while the SnG gods sort themselves out. No sample size but never had a losing session in limit the past 4 days after going back to the books and studying a lot. I have no idea what is going on with my SnG game.
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#38
05-02-2005, 03:09 PM
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Re: How much do you think you lost playing SNGs before you became a winner
(1) Lost $1000 playing various games.
(2) Won $3500 playing SNGs, mostly $50 & $100 games, over about 2 weeks. (3) Lost $3415 playing SNGs. Give or take a few dollars. (4) Won some money. (5) Stopped playing.
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#39
05-02-2005, 03:30 PM
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Re: How much do you think you lost playing SNGs before you became a wi
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[ QUOTE ] I find it interesting that almost everyone here started off winning. [/ QUOTE ] I didn't start off playing SnG. So I had my growing pains playing ring tables. [/ QUOTE ] I started off pretty much break-even in ring games, which eventually started winning, but not without a few up and down bumps. For SNG's I was losing pretty stinkin' bad (and thus avoiding them for the most part) until a few months ago when a friend of mine (a very good MTT player) showed me some of his strategies that he had also been applying with fairly good success to STTs. That led me to give SNG's another shot and to start reading this forum. Since then I've been winning more consistently than I ever did in the ring games.
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