Here's to a great month for all of us!

February Goals:

1. Play 300 sng's.
2. Finish Phil Shaw's book.
3. Have an ROI of at least 9%.
4. Watch 2-3 videos a week.
5. Have 1-2 coaching lessons to stay focused and find leaks.
6. Maintain silver start status.
7. Get caught up on personal projects so I can shoot for gold in March.
8. Review games played daily in sng wizard.

Feb. Goals

Play as much as I can
Post 4 hands
Review games in SNGWIZ
Enjoy the SNG League
Have a profitable live weekend at the local club during the Super Bowl games.

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Not off to a good start this month, just six-tabled some $5.50's and only cashed in one. Lost twice with overpairs all-in preflop (had my 4-bet called by 44, that was infuriating), lost all but one 60/40, it was dumb. I'm gonna four-table and see how that goes.

My goal for this month is pretty simple: practice good BRM, and play 95% SNG's-- stay away from cash and MTT's.

Goals....

1. Stop playing at Fulltilt... (at any cost)
2. Double BR on Stars to $300 (Hopefully $500)
3. Carry on Reviewing Uncashed Games
4. Carry on Playing both MTT's and SNG's ONLY!
5. Try and enjoy my games more
6. Try and Stop Miss's taking my profit!

Originally Posted by sharkyo01

6. Try and Stop Miss's taking my profit!

Easy, just tell her you don't have any

Feb goals:

1. Maintain platinum status
2. Improve on January $/hour through optimizing # of tables played as well as stakes played for DoNs
3. Work out the 2.5bb-3bb steal / open shove steal / resteal math at 25/50 and 50/100 blind levels and find optimal ranges against the 3 primary villain types
4. Get more than 10 points in the league games for my team

Originally Posted by Jillychemung

Easy, just tell her you don't have any

That's a little hard when I spreadsheets all over the place ... With my Profit and lose on them.

OK I am on it this month:

February Goals:

1. Play 2-300 sng's (4 tabling).
2. Have an ROI at ~ 20% .
3. Watch 2-3 videos a week, read some unread stuff sitting in the forums.
4. Eat more beet salad, walk dog more.
5. Get some work done.
6. See Number 5.
7. Find and post music videos while playing CC MTTs, and stud 2/4 to maintain silverware status.
8. Review games played daily, in my sleep.
9. Find a cheap good coach who works for me.
10. Pay the rent.
11. Get last kitten adopted.

OK I am on it this month:

February Goals:

1. Play 120+ MTTs/ 60+ STTs (2-4 tabling).
2. Have an ROI at ~ 20+% .
3. Read some unread stuff sitting in the forums.
4. Eat more meat.
5. Lots of work to be done done.
6. See Number 5.
7. Study more and review ALOT of HEM filed hands.
8. Review games played daily - after playing.
9. Find a cheap coach or friends who coach me for free (public sweat session ).
10. Prepare home for baby part I.
11. Get more sleep.

Thanks makwa -sorry for taking parts of your post - good luck + also with the kittens

SNG goals for this month

Playing goals :

1.Be more stable as for the type and stakes I'll play (I can't refrain me from switching from 1 table to MTT's one and from turbo to super turbo which obviously doesn't allow me to learn deeply any of these )
2. Achieve 750 VPP stellar bonus and hopefully play enough to be silverstar on FPP by the end of this month.
3. Play 1000 or more SNG's (less than January because of the fail and the shorter month)

Learning goals :
1. continue with Stox and SNG grinders videos and as I earned 2 free weeks on Cardrunners I'll going to dive onto Jackal SNG small stakes videos and series which should made me busy for these 2 first weeks.
2. learn from my play aka reviewing my session and post more on the doubtful hands I've isolated.

All these goals are subject to my RL schedule which could be busy or not given the fact I'm waiting from job news to know whether, where and when I gonna moving house

Did I read somewhere that PS doomswitches you after you withdraw? Last night started to make me weary. I guess the new PC I bought with the $$ is worth it. Even though January was pretty intense as far as variance goes, I min-cashed in the Sunday Million, so that was a pretty good profit since I satty'd into it. And since I moved up to the $12 45p at the end of the month and ran well, I had my most profitable month of sngs. So here are the goals for Feb:

1) 550 games
2) 200 DONs, 350 45p turbos
3) Settle in at $12 stakes
4) Gold star
5) Satty in to sunday million again

Originally Posted by WurlyQ

Feb goals:


3. Work out the 2.5bb-3bb steal / open shove steal / resteal math at 25/50 and 50/100 blind levels and find optimal ranges against the 3 primary villain types

Nice idea.

If you need/want any help, let me know. I love projects like this almost more than playing.

Originally Posted by gallopingael

Nice idea.

If you need/want any help, let me know. I love projects like this almost more than playing.

Thank you! I am going to do some preliminary math on this to see if this is worthwhile. I will definitely seek your help if I think there is some merit to doing the analysis. I believe these are the trickiest blind levels to play and getting a low risk steal (or even more so a resteal) would be greatly +EV.

Edit: How is your brm project going?

Originally Posted by WurlyQ

Thank you! I am going to do some preliminary math on this to see if this is worthwhile. I will definitely seek your help if I think there is some merit to doing the analysis. I believe these are the trickiest blind levels to play and getting a low risk steal (or even more so a resteal) would be greatly +EV.

Edit: How is your brm project going?

I think it will be. I used to joke (and still sometimes do) that if all you did was play AA and KK in the first 3 levels you weren't missing out on too much equity and in fact might be gaining it by not getting into tricky spots with TPTK type hands.

It was a bit of an exaggeration, but I don't think by much.

I also don't think that's the case anymore. The games have gotten tougher and being able to squeez any extra equity out of the early game is worth looking into.

The exercise: It's going slowly.

I was rear ended a week ago Saturday and haven't really had the time to put in any volume on it. And then getting crushed when you do have a hand doesn't help either. But it's early, so we'll see. I should have a blog post up about it before I head to LA for the weekend for my semi-occasional trip to Disneyland for Super Bowl Sunday.

Originally Posted by gallopingael

I think it will be. I used to joke (and still sometimes do) that if all you did was play AA and KK in the first 3 levels you weren't missing out on too much equity and in fact might be gaining it by not getting into tricky spots with TPTK type hands.

It was a bit of an exaggeration, but I don't think by much.

I also don't think that's the case anymore. The games have gotten tougher and being able to squeez any extra equity out of the early game is worth looking into.

This is still not that far off at all at least for the first 2 blind levels imo. These two levels are extraction from fish levels as opposed to stealing levels. As with any deepstack situation, position is key. Thus, JJ and AK are instamucks for me from EP but are value-steal/isoraise material for me from the CO and BTN (my exact CO and BTN stealing range/criteria is a secret ). 25/50 is the first level that antes kick in and therefore, in my mind, warrant stealing considerations.

Originally Posted by gallopingael

The exercise: It's going slowly.

I was rear ended a week ago Saturday and haven't really had the time to put in any volume on it. And then getting crushed when you do have a hand doesn't help either. But it's early, so we'll see. I should have a blog post up about it before I head to LA for the weekend for my semi-occasional trip to Disneyland for Super Bowl Sunday.

I read your blog on Collin Moshman's site on occasion, and yeah, that sucks Good luck with the grind when you get around to it!

Feb. goals: green in the book.
after all, thats all that matter

I'm finally rolled for $11 STT's. I've never played them before, so I thought I'd one table it at first to see what they're like. This is what I learned:

View hand 514948
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

SB: t1205 M = 8.03
BB: t2915 M = 19.43
UTG: t2215 M = 14.77
MP: t2200 M = 14.67
CO: t2515 M = 16.77
Hero (BTN): t2450 M = 16.33

Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN with Q Q
2 folds, CO raises to t300, Hero raises to t950, 1 fold, BB calls t850, 1 fold

Flop: (t2250) 9 J K (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t1500 all in, BB calls t1500

Turn: (t5250) 8 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: (t5250) 4 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: t5250
BB shows 9 K (a flush, King high)
Hero shows Q Q (a pair of Queens)
BB wins t5250

I guess I'm not good enough yet

Playing 1 table won't give you much to go on.

Originally Posted by dakota-xx

Playing 1 table won't give you much to go on.

I guess that's true. It only took one idiot, lol. Some players still played pretty loose pre-flop, but there weren't any all-ins early.

I'll multi-table them, I think, when I have more of a cushion in my BR. I have about 21 buy-ins right now at $11. Until then, I'll keep playing the $5.50's.

*walks in late*

1 - Play at least 200 STTs
2 - Try to add at least one more table (four-tabling at the moment)
3 - Profit

I played a lot more than 200 last month but Mass Effect 2 just got released so I'm being realistic :P

On PT3, is there a way to get graphs for SNG's other than the "Money Won for Tournaments Played"?

My coach just got hired by DragtheBar to do sng videos. He is very good and I look forward to seeing what he comes up with.

This is a basic beginner's 10 minute classroom lesson of his:

Link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DKTL7TU9

If you are just starting to play sng's it helps put the game in perspective as far as when you need to be aggressive.

Thanks for the DL link -- that rocks.

On a side note -- I DL'd 192MB of Mass Effect 2 solely to build up my share ratio on a private torrent site -- and it went through the roof. I've uploaded that 192MB something to the tune of 12GB (ratio of 60).
--MSM

I hope to play some this month... I only got to play one last month, that only helped .90c.
I will say this, if i meat any CCer in a SNG, i will not go easy on you.
Thought the new year was great, now it sucks...

Bumpity bump.

I've turned into a rakeback pro this month (aka I'm running bad and breaking even ). How's everyone else's month going?

Not good like last month! I just can't get a good run started at all.

I feel like I suck lol.

Originally Posted by dakota-xx

Not good like last month! I just can't get a good run started at all.

I feel like I suck lol.

Thats not good Seems like lots of people around me starting to run bad for some reason. Gotta keep up optimism!!

OK - just started my first session for the month, let's see how this goes...

So I'm down two buy ins after my first dozen games, and it feels like tonight's gonna be one of those nights. AA or KK four times in about 15 minutes and every single time I've won nothing more than the blinds

The proof is in the pudding....

I have to start playing more at night and less during the day. My HEM stats are separate on my desktop and laptop (which I only use at night). The 2 graphs are soooo different - I kill the game at night and am at a loss during the day.

It sucks because I am free most of the day other than working here at CC or shopping. I try to at least be in the same room as Joe at night - so we watch tv and each have our laptops in there. I usually play 1 set of 4 games every night - sometimes I get in a few more. Last night Joe was out of town so I played 10 and cashed in 7 with a few of them 1rst places.

I am going to try 6 tabling 2 sets a night and see what happens. I can handle 6 tables - but I can't see them very good lol. My laptop has a 17' monitor and my desktop has a 23'. My vision sucks so seeing chip stacks can be a struggle. And the HUD stats get in the way too - I need to get someone to help me remove a couple - last time I tried it stayed the same no matter what I did.

I'm late.

January:
SNGs = the sucks.

February:
I didn't start playing SNGs in the early weeks. Maybe played a few and did bad. So, I played more MTTs, SNGs, shipped some cash to friends, etc...

Looking to get back to SNGs. Not doing so hot at normal/turbos so, I'm playing the super-turbos. Started playing yesterday and I'm doing fairly well.

Game: $1.50 + .20 6/9 max super turbos
Session: 19 games
Profit: $31.60

Of course, this is a tiny session but it's a great start and has really rebuilt my confidence in my game. Of course, I'm probably just running hot but I don't think it's all 100% hot/luck.

Here is my recent 8 games I've played. I really like these games because you can play a high volume in a short amount of time. I hope the rest of my sessions are as good as these...$16 profit in about an hour.

Bump. Still playing the $1.50 super turbos. Only added another 12 games since this post. ...Busy weekend. So far, so good. Up $45...

Thats all.

Breakeven over 110 games = sigh.

Methinks I'm not going to get anywhere near my volume target for the month, we'll see. After a couple of days I feel like I'm definitely back in the swing of things at least.

My month is not going great - but I am trying to hang in there. I don't have to worry about my volume because I won't be going for gold until next month. Though without trying it looks like I will be ridiculously close this month - so I probably should be giving it a go lol.

Have had little to no time to play this month. Too much work and then traveling with the kids. This week and next look like I may get some volume in. The few sessions I have had have been BAD so I'm a -80% ROI for the month