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So it's been awhile since there's been a monthly thread dedicated to tournaments and sit n gos on here. The tournament section isn't nearly as popular as the cash games one. I figured I would start once with April starting in one day. Post volume goals, wins, whines, HHs, etc, whatever you want!

Monthly Goals

500 MTTs
$2k profit
Get ABI up to $9
Cut out all <$5.50 tourneys and put in some volume at $22s/$33s like I should have long ago! (I'm a BRM nit)
Play at least 15 six or more hour sessions.
Make 30 FTs.
Win 3 MTTs.
Get a $1k+ cash

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GLGL this month.
 
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Best of luck with the tournaments in April. I'll defo keep an eye on this thread since I'm primarily a tourney player and it may well be a useful thread :)

You want to get your average buy in up to $9, what is the current average?
 
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Cheers toots :)

My current ABI this year is roughly $7, and was just around $8 this month. $9 is the the bare minimum I'd like to get it up to this month, $10-$11 preferably.

I will be grinding out the $5.50, $5.50+R, $7.70, and $11 MTTs on Bovada and Carbon. The $16.50, $22, and $33 BIs I am going to be adding in more, and hopefully in a few months I can cut out the $5.50s if I'm getting good volume in without them.

I also plan to take a few shots in some $55 MTTs on Bovada as I just binked $4.2k in their Nightly $55 30k gtd for 2nd place on Saturday night :)
 
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Cheers toots :)

My current ABI this year is roughly $7, and was just around $8 this month. $9 is the the bare minimum I'd like to get it up to this month, $10-$11 preferably.

I will be grinding out the $5.50, $5.50+R, $7.70, and $11 MTTs on Bovada and Carbon. The $16.50, $22, and $33 BIs I am going to be adding in more, and hopefully in a few months I can cut out the $5.50s if I'm getting good volume in without them.

I also plan to take a few shots in some $55 MTTs on Bovada as I just binked $4.2k in their Nightly $55 30k gtd for 2nd place on Saturday night :)

In. Best of luck on your quest to accomplish your goals in April! You're a solid player and I see you making this happen! Congrats on the bink on Saturday, bet that sure helps out the br and will make it easier to be less of a br nit.;) Looking forward to checking your progress!
 
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subbed, hopefully we can get this thing going again :):):)

No real goals this month apart from play a decent sample of spin and gos.
 
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In, yes it has been a while.... they tend not to keep interest it seems although not sure why as we have lots of mtt/sng grinders here on the forum.

I'm not sure regarding any goals for april as will be doing some live play in Cherokee the 2nd half of april (see thread in signature for details).

But for April it's going to be...
- Have fun playing live tournies
- Bink a live tourney
- At least break even but hopefully show profits on my trip to the WSOPC


I will likely be doing some volume grinding again once I'm back so lets keep a monthly mtt thread alive.
 
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good luck, trent32la in mtts! ;)
 
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:eek: an april thread and yet to be a post in april, how goes everyones april so far?

I finished out the bap I was working on Friday night with a bink in a small field mtt on ftp that i took 2nd in the night before....even in a small field it felt nice :D.

subbed, hopefully we can get this thing going again :):):)

No real goals this month apart from play a decent sample of spin and gos.

How long have you been grinding the spin n goes? Doing well I take it if you're sticking with it? Had any huge swings yet? Any tips? BRM Recommendations? Hit any big jackpots?
 
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Haven't been playing them long, might have played around 500 of them total. Doing ok think i'm up around 1k but it's only due to a few bigger wins mainly cashed for $360 in a $60 buyin. No big swings yet, but the swings can be really big however it's also hard to calculate it as there isn't much info around currently.

Tips-

Limp the first few hands if you would normally raise them.
raise 3x if you want to call all in shoves
raise alot HU
treat 2x games as loose in general and treat higher buyins as much tighter in general.
treat 2x games as ones you want to take high variance or to make your games quicker in general, thin value bet more, bluff catch more.
treat higher jackpots as ones you want to take lower variance, thin value less and bluff catch way less.
Get ready to encounter huge swings both up and down, 50 buyin downswings happen like 80% of the time over a 5k sample to a good player with like a 36% ITM, so ya, get your mental game ready to deal with it ;)
 
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NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Been crazy busy and hardly around the last few days, packing up an apartment so been very little pokerz for moi although did play some once the day was done for a couple hours after the wife went to bed. Interestingly enough I started playing some jackpot sng's on fulltilt and took a bit of an adjustment initially but think I have been playing them better the last couple of nights than when I started.

Initially got playing them as just got an iphone and installed the App and gave a couple of them a try. I think it might be something I stick to for a while but certainly going to be swingy with high volume because the potential to get 50% ITM and break even for stretches is a bit gross lol.....I seem to keep getting my ass kicked (via flips usually) in the bigger prizes.....had a 20x the other day and went out first hand AT < 99, prb should have folded his shove but just so many times see jams first hand with abs nothing was hard not to take what felt at worse to be a flip.

Anyhow hope some others get back to the thread since its almost the middle of april.

I did fire up two spin n go's on stars at one point and spun a 6x and 25x but of course lost the 25x but won the 6x ..... would have been nice to win the 25x since the br could use a boost there lol.

@wizzim: which level do you typically grind, think I'll stick with the 2.5$ games on ftp for a while as feels pretty comfy with a 200x buyin br (well almost 200) as I know it will get more swingy if I start going more than the 4-6 tables i was playing the past week.....and not sure if I'd want to do more than 6 for now at least.

Do you find after getting used to these that the thoughts of a regular structure sng seems a little ugh lol
 
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The jackpot sngs on tilt are 3 player? if so 50% is kinda unlikely, if everyone is equally skilled you are getting a 33% ITM, but with rake you need to beat them for 35% usually, so for a winning player 36-40% is kind of the mark to aim for long term.

jeez lucky you, haven't had anything over a 10x spin yet, think i've had more than my fair share of 6x and 4x though.

I'm playing $7 and $15 at the moment, but once i have a reliable internet connection i'll be playing $15s with an option to test out the $30s. The thing is i can't put in sizeable volume now, and my life bankroll is bigger, so just trying to find the highest level i can actually beat, which should be $30s since i'm only 1-2 tabling. but time will tell :)

And yeah, no way i can even play a turbo tournament anymore since playing the 6max hypers, hu hypers the spin and go's seem slower than both of those formats :)
 
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Yeah the jackpots are 3 players, 500 chips same format as the spin n goes. Was just looking at 50% being the case if you were unlucky enough to get only all 2x which i have had some stretches of and then finally get a 4x and lose lol.

I know 50% ITM is pretty unlikely long term for sure and you are bound to be getting 4x ones now and then at least to make lower a winning itm.

I played a bunch of 1's and 2.5's and even some 5 and 10's on ftp to test them out....the 1's are a jokefest sometimes with crazy allins, the 2.5's are a bit less crazy but at all levels i played only really a few people i came across in the small samples that seem to have a decent grasp on what they are at.

I'll be able to get good volume, even though i hear ya on the internet connection mine is spotty at times and really sucks in the hyper formats to disconnect even for 20 seconds.

I think i could get used to playing them though, but would probably stick with the 2.5 games for a while even with a 200bi br especially if plan on putting in the volume and hopefully move it up along and maybe get to be a lucky sob that hits a huge jackpot lol....or at least stops losing the 10x i do hit now and then.

gl on the grind, didn't ever think i'd see myself getting into these things but painful on ftp to try and get volume on anything else so figure worth giving it a kick and see how it goes.
 
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no i was the biggest advocate of not having these games when they were annouced mid last year. But i honestly think now that they are the best games to be introduced ever in my memory...

It has two things which really appeal to me.

1. it attracts and keeps fish, and they are playing higher buyins.

2. there's nothing restricting your play here, no ICM or anything that affects money decisions, just have to find ways to get all the chips. This really appeals to me after a long time of frustration playing all sorts of formats trying to find one that really appealed to me. (thought it was HU play, but now it's these )
 
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In.

Goals are to play more. Haven't been playing consistently for 2 years and would love to get back into it. How's your month going Trent?
 
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So it's been awhile since there's been a monthly thread dedicated to tournaments and sit n gos on here. The tournament section isn't nearly as popular as the cash games one. I figured I would start once with April starting in one day. Post volume goals, wins, whines, HHs, etc, whatever you want!

Monthly Goals

500 MTTs
$2k profit
Get ABI up to $9
Cut out all <$5.50 tourneys and put in some volume at $22s/$33s like I should have long ago! (I'm a BRM nit)
Play at least 15 six or more hour sessions.
Make 30 FTs.
Win 3 MTTs.
Get a $1k+ cash


Gl with these Trent - Anyway how goes it with all these? Well I hope. I didn't realise that this part of the forum was here, (what a idiot!!). How does this thread work? Do we just post our results and plays? Or is there something else I should know?

If I can be of any help to anyone out there give me a shout? Or even a pm will work. Best of luck with your poker? :D:D:D
 
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Post whatever you like marc....

bad beats
funny hands
big wins
strategy hands

Gl with your goals for the rest of the month :)
 
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Failed month so far for me volume wise, mainly due to being so busy with work and family! I had a win in a Bovada $5.50 turbo for $188, nothing else to really brag about though. On the bright side, the rest of this month won't be very busy for me so I can get back to grinding heavy.

I've dropped a couple hundo this month, but playing low-midstakes it's pretty normal :)

Going back on the early morning grind today and will be grinding pretty much all reg speed MTTs on Bovada/BCP, a little bit on Carbon since their cashouts are poo atm.

Hopefully playing the same schedule each day in the morning will get me more motivated to grind! Going to have to adjust to the reg speeds though as I play turbos/hypers exclusively.

On the bright side, I am doing a run-it-up challenge on BCP, as a friend sent me $17 on there after a trade. I'm currently at $174 after a week or so of grinding $5.50s :D
 
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So it's been awhile since there's been a monthly thread dedicated to tournaments and sit n gos on here. The tournament section isn't nearly as popular as the cash games one. I figured I would start once with April starting in one day. Post volume goals, wins, whines, HHs, etc, whatever you want!

Monthly Goals

500 MTTs
$2k profit
Get ABI up to $9
Cut out all <$5.50 tourneys and put in some volume at $22s/$33s like I should have long ago! (I'm a BRM nit)
Play at least 15 six or more hour sessions.
Make 30 FTs.
Win 3 MTTs.
Get a $1k+ cash


Gl with these Trent - Anyway how goes it with all these? Well I hope. I didn't realise that this part of the forum was here, (what a idiot!!). How does this thread work? Do we just post our results and plays? Or is there something else I should know?

If I can be of any help to anyone out there give me a shout? Or even a pm will work. Best of luck with your poker? :D:D:D
Cheers.

As Wiz stated above, this is just a thread to post wins, whines, beats, brags etc for tournaments and sit n goes. Just trying to get these threads back up again as CC is overloaded with cash game players.
 
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Failed month so far for me volume wise, mainly due to being so busy with work and family! I had a win in a Bovada $5.50 turbo for $188, nothing else to really brag about though. On the bright side, the rest of this month won't be very busy for me so I can get back to grinding heavy.

I've dropped a couple hundo this month, but playing low-midstakes it's pretty normal :)

Going back on the early morning grind today and will be grinding pretty much all reg speed MTTs on Bovada/BCP, a little bit on Carbon since their cashouts are poo atm.

Hopefully playing the same schedule each day in the morning will get me more motivated to grind! Going to have to adjust to the reg speeds though as I play turbos/hypers exclusively.

On the bright side, I am doing a run-it-up challenge on BCP, as a friend sent me $17 on there after a trade. I'm currently at $174 after a week or so of grinding $5.50s :D

Glad to see you back in this thread. Sorry that you haven't been bale to get in the volume you had wished to. Life tends to get in the way sometimes... Looking forward to see what you did with the rest of the month. Congrats on the Bovada cash too!
 
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