A lot to learn

Well ring games are more difficult than I expected. I did know that it wasn't easy, okay, but it never crossed my mind that SNG play will cost you a lot of money at ring games.

In the first week I did play 1849 hands. Most of them @ NL10. The result is shameful. A loss of $49.2. If I add to this the rakeback I did have a net loss of $41.56. Luckely, I made a profit of $6.34 @ NL20.

The second week was a little bit better. Combined with the rakeback and a part of the bonus I did clear I did made a profit of $12.94. But here again the dreadful story @ NL10. 1436 hands played and a loss of $12.94. @NL20 the results were better, played only 83 hands good for a profit of $9.98.

Trying to find my leaks I downloaded a trial version of PT3.
With the small size of hands it is maybe to early to pull some conclusions. But the first one is that I need to play a significant amount of hands from first position. I didn't realize that first position is good for 25% of my losses.
Another rule I did set for myself is that when I increased with 50%, I will leave the table. For some reason or the other I'm capable of building a stack to loose it when a smaller pocket pair made their set. So to prevent this, this rule is in place.

Will let you know on friday how week 3 has ended.

Cheers,
Dremeber

I moved to Doyles

Unfortunately, the SNGs they are offering are my cup of tea. So I decided to learn the pure art of poker: cash games.
I will start @NL10. Why NL10. I have a rakeback deal via rakeback.com. A rakeback deal @nl10 and with 300 hands will give me an advantage of a dollar per day. That's around 25 to 30 per month which means a big deal for me.

Also it will allow my clear more parts of my bonus. At the moment Doyles is giving out a 110% bonus up to 600$ for a first deposit. While the SNGs are not my cup of tea, the cash tables at lower limits seems pretty soft. There is also enough crowd fill up plenty of tables. Multitabling is also not a problem. It is not as fancy as @ stars but I will give it a 7 out of 10.

I you decided to also go to Doyles. Do yourself (and me) a favour a sign up via Rakeback.com. It will give the same rakeback deal as I have, which means a 33% rakeback with the dealt rake method.
The dealt rake back method means that the rake per pot is split between all the players who did het hole cards.

Cheers,
Dremeber

set 8: completed! Who am I kidding?

Maybe the better question is: What the fuck is wrong with the Stars SNG.

I'm just having it @ Stars. Giving me one bad beat after another. The pricks. In set 8 I had a loosing streak of 11 SNGs without a cash. Getting bubbled out, getting 2 and 3 outers against me. I know that bad beats are part of the game but it almost reached a point where it starts to have an impact an my mental state outside of poker, which is ringing an alarm bell.

So for the moment I will clear my Stars account. Don't know when I will return to there. Maybe I will try the Doyles room. For sure, this time I will sign up to a room via rakeback.
Titan, where I once started with online poker, sounds appealing. The problem is that I don't have rakeback there. I did close that account some months ago, will have to contact there support team.

Let's quickly sum up the stats of the 200 sngs I played:
Money collected: 418,15
Profit: 68.5
ROI: 19%
ITM: 56
Wins: 16
Second: 18
Third: 13
Fourth: 11

Cheers,
Dremeber

Stepping up, stepping down

Well despite the good luck wishes of Amatay I have to step down after only 1 set at the $3.40 level.
Only 6 cashes and a loss of $20.2 sealed my faith.
It could have gone different but I did get bubbled out on a few occasions with the correct push but no luck. This evening I also ran twice into KK and once into AA, just bad luck. In the last 2 I did get eliminated with AJ vs KQ and KQ vs K10. Especially this last one was a hard one to swallow. The other one, despite being ahead after the push it was a correct call from the chipleader.

I'm confident that I can make a profit on this level, no question about it, I just do need some more luck. But I have to follow my BR management. So, stepping down I will. The good thing is that I only do need a profit of $20, so after a set of 2 I should be capable of stepping up again.
The BR is still above $100, so no real harm done.

I guess it was just the wrong moment to step up again.
Back to square 1. Here we go.

Cheers,
Dremeber