A day in the life of a donk

So here's what for me is a totally standard day. It's just 12 SNGs, but it's basically what's happened over a 250-sng sample so far.

1) $11 reg
Am down to very few chips when a suckout helps me into the money. It's back and forth as pushes run into bigger hands. In the end there's a clear chip 11k, me 5k, shorty 2.4k. I push 66 in the SB and he calls with JJ turning it around.
I catch rockets OTB and decide to flat call because I thought I'd see if I could squeeze some extra value out. Chip leader flops a straight. Fair dos, that's the risk of playing fancy. 3rd place.

2) $6 turbo
First hand, JJ in the BB, two callers. A-on the flop. My c-bet, I call a wussy turn bet but fold to a river push and have lost half my stack.
I claw some back but am blinded out in 6th.

3) $11 turbo
UTG I raise AQ for 3xbb, MP1 pushes all-in. I figure I have to call since I've put in 600 already and it's only 1100 more, against most PPs that's got to be +EV. Unfortunately he has rockets and so I soon go busto off my remaining 2bb stack. 9th

4) $6 turbo
AJ in EP I raise and get called. Here I figure I'm probably up against a better ace or a PP. Flop comes up AJx so I put him all in when he raises me with AK.
River K. Gnight. 9th

5) $11 reg
Doubled up early. Picked up a monster stack later and more or less cruised into the money and HU. Bust other guy without too much stress. 1st.

6) $11 turbo
Bumble along until I double up with KK. Get to the bubble. I have a 5bb stack as does another shorty. I pick up 22 UTG and decide to push (question mark, maybe..).
SB with AK calls and hits, I go out in 4th.

7) $11 reg
In the donkiest move I bet KJ on a T36TJ board not noticing that villain has picked up a runner-runner flush. 9th

8) $11 turbo
Am even with most others. With T4s in the BB I flop TPWK, throw out a 800 bet into 1000. Btn raises to 4100. This should be a warning sign of course. I call like a donk and his limped JJ pay off. 6th.

9) $6 speed
Double up early with rockets. 4 remaining, I'm even stacked with two others. BTN on 2x our stacks pushes from the button and I call in the SB with 88 and he hits his AJs hard and I go out. 4th

10) $11 turbo
I have AKs on a Q43 board with two of my suit, I raise hard and then call when QTo pushes back into me. I am 54% here but lose... them's the breaks. I have 130 chips left but battle back. Come the end I'm on 2.2k chips with blinds of 300/600 so I push from CO with AKs. SB calls with 77 and I bust out. 7th

11) $6 turbo
Find my way into the money. Am in thrid when I push K3o (blinds are 400/800, I have 5bb) he has AT and I finish in 3rd.

12) $11 reg
A long, long game and I'm still only on 1700 when the 100/200 blinds come around.
BTN pushes for 300, SB min raises to 500, I push my AQo for 1700 and get called.
I'm up agaisnt KQ and T9s (so am ahead at least here). Runner-runner flush gives it to T9 (the biggest dog pre-flop) and I bust out in 5th.

I'm not sure if there's any justification for getting out of the way in that last hand. Okay, even with their crap hands I was only 43% to win, but that's 43% to win $3.8k chips, and 70% to win 2.9k chips. So hugely +EV here.


Okay, if you've read this far it probably sounds like a bad beat moan; but if it's bad beats I'll eventually come good, but from my 12-game sample it breaks down like this:

ITM: 1,5,11
Perhaps could have played (1) a little better and yes, with blinds that high floating AA was probably a mistake, although to be honest about 8 times out of 10 I'll win enough chips to give me a much stronger shot at 2nd and maybe challenge more for first... I don't know still.

But basically these three I'm okay with. Get in the money and take it from there, even if at the moment an exagerated number of thirds is taking a mediocre ITM% and making for an appalling ROI.

In with the best: 4, 6(?), 9, 12
I have the best hand when I go out. Either clearly as in AJ v AK getting two-outed or PPs v overs etc.
I may question the wisdom of pushing 22 UTG (6), but there's no denying I was pre-flop favourite.

Obvious push: 10
Open-Pushing AK <10bb, or pushing K3 in the SB seem so standard that even if I run into a technincally better hand I can't fault it.

Questionables: 2,3,7,8
(2) I played horribly in the first hand JJ and never properly recovered.
(3) I fail to appreciate the dangers when he pushes over my raise from UTG. It's perhaps a tough spot, but I'm sure there was a fold here.
(7) Just misplayed a hand and it cost me big.
(8) Walked into a trap by calling an exagerated push with TPWK versus another largish stack.

So there's 5 SNGs that ended when I did the right thing and got busted for it (seems harsh, but it happens a lot). There are 3 that finished ITM and so are less of a concern right now.
Then there are 4 that contain large mistakes. (2) was bad, but (8) was throwing away a strong chance of an ITM finish.

So if I can move the 4 questionables into the more standard bracket will the odds see them come into the ITM column? I mean if I'm losing coin flips on the bubble then I only need a couple more to boost my ITM %. enough to get a positive ROI.

Oh well, 225 odd SNGs to go, see if I can't be playing winning SNGs for at least the last 100.
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