4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Putney, UK; Full Tilt,Mansion; $50 NL and PL; $13 and $16 SNGs at Stars
Posts: 3,170
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Hi Guys,
Quick update time. I took July as a holiday from 6max ring (and indeed, took an actual holiday as well - to Chicago, which was fantastic), and I'm still enjoying SNGs with the occasional MTT thrown in.
I'm only marginally up - maybe $200 since the start of July - but in the last couple of weeks I've formalised things a little with a spreadsheet tracking my efforts at the Party $11s and the Stars $13s and $16s, and I've finally started doing okay, albeit with a very small sample size (45 SNGs, 24% ROI).
I also managed my highest MTT finish - 3rd in a $4.40 Stars 180, which I fucked up with one moronic move 3-handed versus 2 decent, very aggressive players, and then was card dead until busting out with some desperate push.
Another thing worth mentioning - August has, so far, seen the most staggering positive variance in terms of always winning 60/40s and always winning 40/60s! I won a tourney earlier today with K7s THREE TIMES all in, each time vs Ax, and each time I hit.
I have to say that this holiday from "real" poker feels great. Obviously if I lose half a dozen SNGs in a row it doesn't feel great, but it's hardly even possible for me to lose a three figure sum even in the worst case, so stuff feels a lot more relaxed.
I also played a live $100+$10 freezeout the other day and came 4th (out of 24) for $200. And I only bust out when rivered (although if I'm honest, the 74s I pushed with wasn't good pre-flop either  ). Another $60 rebuy tomorrow night - it'd be SO cool to finish ITM but I doubt I'll have good news to report back, especially since I'm going with my mate, who normally plays $5 SNGs, who has so far taken down $3,500 in the three tourneys I've taken him to, winning each one. Now there's variance for you.
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