$ 3.40 tourney review. HUGE holes in my game

As the title indicates Im not playing good at all. I've been on this downstreak where I'm down 100 $. But the worst part is it's been going on for months.
I've tried taking breaks until I no longer think about poker and then come back. I dont play tired drunk mad etc.
About tilt I havent been mad because Ive gone in favorit into a pot and believed its just variance killing me. But it's been going on so long now and I loose 10 tournaments before I make the money on one. I was 100 % sure I could pull myself out of this but I doubt it. I've recently noticed I'm not going is as favorit in most pots I'm gambling a lot. Because of the recent months, obviously do blind to spot it and sort it out myself I ask you guys to help me.
So please please please take a look and give me advice on what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks in advance

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Overall I think you played pretty well but got unlucky in a couple of important spots in this tourney, however my general observations would be:

- Shove or fold preflop rather than standard raising when you have <10x BB
- I think you missed some late game/short stacked shove spots, I pointed them out below
- If you don't have SNG Wiz, I would definitely get it as it will help a lot with the sorts of shove/fold decisions you see in turbo SNGs like this one.

1. AKo - I'd raise more preflop, make it 150 or so. You want to try to avoid seeing a flop with 2+ opps as it means you can't really take a stab at the pot with a c-bet. As played I definitely wouldn't fold the river for 30 chips when the pot is almost 400. You might at least get a chop of the pot, and remember you're ahead of lots of other aces whose kickers didn't hit.

2. AQo - fold preflop unless you have a read that the UTG raiser is very aggressive

3. 77 - I'd bet the flop for 50 or so to try to build the pot. If the flush hits on the turn you may not get any more action from Jx hands (whilst if you bet they might check-raise)

K 7 Button (Hero's M = 18.07; f+f+f+f+f+f+F+r+f) (between 3 and 4) - consider raising this 2.5x BB

5. A4o - I know you're short but I wouldn't shove over with this, I'd fold and wait for a better spot

6. QJo - shove if you want to play this (and I would)

7. KJs - fold preflop, basically when you have <10x BB (and sometimes up to 13x BB) you want to shove or fold preflop rather than standard raising - and this isn't a good shove spot. As played, I wouldn't shove here, I'd bet 3/4 pot and get the rest in on the turn. You don't want to scare away flush draws or Kx-type hands without another club

2 K SB (Hero's M = 11.73; f+f+f+f+F) (between 7 and 8) - looks like the BB has <10x BB here, I would shove this

9. TT - shove back here. You are way ahead of the SB minraiser's open raise range and he definitely calls a shove with worse. As played, I think I would flat here to see if he will fire again on the turn, but I don't hate the raise.

10. JJ - I think I would bet the flop rather than checking, 800 or so should do the job (and if you get shoved over you can still easily fold).

11. AJo - I would just shove it here since the second stack is out of the way.

12. AQs - shove it, but doesn't really matter provided that you'd call a shove from the short stack if you standard raise

13. QJs - definitely shove it considering how short stacked the blinds are

16. 42o - I wouldn't bet the flop against the other big stack, I'd just check behind and see if you can hit a 4 or 2. The other thing is that if you want to bet, there is no need to bet full pot, 550 or so should do the job and would have saved you some chips.

17. QTo - shove preflop with <10x BB

5 K BB (Hero's M = 5.14; f+f+r+F) (between 17 and 18) - consider shoving back depending on how much opp raised

18. QTs - definite shove preflop

4 K SB (Hero's M = 4.43; f+f+F) (between 18 and 19) - DEFINITE shove preflop, I would shove this 100% of the time considering stack sizes

19. A5o - fold preflop (and you should shove or fold preflop anyway)

5 Q Button (Hero's M = 2.71; f+F+f) (between 19 and 20) - shove this
8 4 SB (Hero's M = 3.09; f+f+F) - and this

20. K9o - definite shove, unlucky to run into a hand that dominates you.

Thanks a lot Taipan for taking your time
I'll go through my hands one more time and adjust the shoving part in my game. Hopefully this will help me to get back on track !

II am finding that the weekend play is killing my roi. I assumed this would be two of the best days to play. I can't figure out if there are more regs playing to eat fish or more fish playing that are catching cards. I like Adii am getting my chips in ahead at least 80% of the time in critical situations. However, on the weekends it seems I win around 20% of those "abit better than a coin flips".

I play very strictly to the article that Taipan wrote for us nubees. I started playing sng's on December 1st. My roi in December was 14%. The first week in January I decided there was a lot more money to ne made at the 20's. OOPs, I wasn't ready for the 20's. I definitely need to work on my push/fold game.

I have gotten my roi back up to 4% after 700 games but have found that I am unable to be successful on the weekends.

Taipan, could the time of day, or the day of the week be a factor for us. Is there an explanation for me having trouble on the weekend? One would think that the weekends would be a great time to play.

Originally Posted by RiverMonster

II am finding that the weekend play is killing my roi. I assumed this would be two of the best days to play. I can't figure out if there are more regs playing to eat fish or more fish playing that are catching cards. I like Adii am getting my chips in ahead at least 80% of the time in critical situations. However, on the weekends it seems I win around 20% of those "abit better than a coin flips".

I play very strictly to the article that Taipan wrote for us nubees. I started playing sng's on December 1st. My roi in December was 14%. The first week in January I decided there was a lot more money to ne made at the 20's. OOPs, I wasn't ready for the 20's. I definitely need to work on my push/fold game.

I have gotten my roi back up to 4% after 700 games but have found that I am unable to be successful on the weekends.

Taipan, could the time of day, or the day of the week be a factor for us. Is there an explanation for me having trouble on the weekend? One would think that the weekends would be a great time to play.

dneureiter wrote a thread a few mths ago referring to weekend play. he had quite a big sample size and i think his findings concluded that its tougher on fri sat and sun.

Hey Adii, didnt mean to hi-jack your thread, but started to notice I was having trouble during certain days and wanted to suggest that you may want to look into that possibility.

Taipan, thanks for the direction to the thread. I read it and I am baffeled by the results. We scan the tourneys to get in those that are not loaded with regs and/or good players, we find them and have trouble with the calling stations. This is certainly a tough game.

Thanks for your help.

Originally Posted by RiverMonster

Hey Adii, didnt mean to hi-jack your thread, but started to notice I was having trouble during certain days and wanted to suggest that you may want to look into that possibility.

Taipan, thanks for the direction to the thread. I read it and I am baffeled by the results. We scan the tourneys to get in those that are not loaded with regs and/or good players, we find them and have trouble with the calling stations. This is certainly a tough game.

Thanks for your help.

Haha no problem dude, I hope it helped you

I think I've fixed the problems taipan pointed out to me. Last 3 coin flips I've busted out of I've been slight favorit so now its not my bad play but variance that kills me. I can live with that , its going to turn around soon anyway