***January SNG Thread***

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Cheers everyone!

My goals this month:

1) play at least 200 STT's
2) be more active in this thread, and in the forum I am supposedly responsible for

Hope you all have a great start to your new year.
 
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Hi sng thread. I pretty much gave up on sng's again last month. All I will be doing this month is playing around with step sng's and trying to earn tickets to play tournaments. Have done well in them so far - but not in the tournaments I use the tickets for lol.

I might get a wild hair once in a while and throw in a set of sng's for old time's sake.

Good luck to all of you!
 
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My typical result of making profit but never reaching iron man bronze. :mad:

This month's goal, attempt to grind 1500 sngs minimum to achieve iron man bronze.(with profit of course).

Iron Man Bronze, here I come.
 
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Ugh...not an auspicious start to the year. Between playing like a donkey and numerous coolers I am down $70 or so. Looking forward to getting home and back to my normal computer so I can multi-table and whatnot again. This laptop has caused a few misclick errors and lag issues in addition to limiting me to one-table.

Goal-wise:
1) play lots, try to hit 250 MTSnGs and a handful of MTTs
2) have productive, mistake-free sessions
3) miss fewer +EV spots, even if they're marginal ones; especially look for re-shove/3bet spots
4) do more hand/session review, post more in HA, selectively review complete SNGs start->finish.

and possibly...5) track/note players while doing session review for future profit and maybe even develop a more stream-lined note system
 
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Now that I am settled in at my new place, I am ready to hit the tables again full force. My approach will be different this month, as I will multi-table turbo SNGs for a few hours a couple of nights a week. My goals this month:

1. 100 SNGs
2. At least break even for the month, as I am focusing on handling volume.

However, this being my 666th post, I would like to make a pact with the devil for the month. If I run good, I promise I will spend my profit on something frivolous and potentially damaging to myself. So please, let me win all my races this month.

:evil: :evil: :evil:
 
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January Goals

1) Play as much as I can
2) Review hands the day after a session
3) Post at least 2 hands
 
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January Goals:
Attempt to implement/tweak SNG strategies including Nash play again good regs. Earn silver star on stars and minimum silver ironman on full tilt. Begin by playing 6.50 9mans and work up to the $16 dollar ones.
 
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Jan goals

Play when possible.

Try keep down to 2 tables maybe 3.

Make enough to take a small shot at next level.

Dont tilt.
 
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sup sng thread, playing the $1/45s on ft. hoping to be relatively close to moving to the $3.25s on stars by the end of the month
 
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New year and I want to start playing a ton more. Yearly goals... play every month?

Monthly Goals:

1) Hit silverstar status
2) ????
3) Profit
 
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I guess this is a good spot to ask...at what point are people shoving ATC from UTG? I'm talking about late in MTSNGs when you still have 7-9 handed tables but many stacks are <10bb. Earlier I shoved Q5o UTG 8-handed as the blinds had jumped from 500/1k/100 to 600/1200/125 and I had ~7500 chips. Is that stack still large enough to just fold and wait for SB/BTN time to steal? I notice that late in these tournaments you seem to not get all that many opportunities to steal as other stacks are always finding a shove instead of folding to your BTN.
 
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ugghh I need to get my shit together and get my roll on stars, games just take too long to fill on ft, takes like an hour to get my session going

edit - lol just checked stars, their $1/45 took like a minute to fill
 
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January goals.

1. 400 SNG
2. Profit (even a 2% will be good)
3. start cashing out half winnings plus rakeback
4. clear the year-end/iron man bonus


First session of the year in the $11´s was positive, hopely will keep that way.
 
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Didn't get a chance to get on here last month, was crazy busy with work. January is shaping up to be the exact opposite so at least I'll be able to play at a civilised hour.

- Play lots
- *shrug*
- Profit
- Unlock Ironman end of year bonus for more profit
 
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I guess the first thing I have to do is take the first step 1) admitted that I am powerless over rush poker and that my bankroll has become unmanagable!! just kidding lol
Have not played solid sngs for a couple of months now sporadic play starting games when I truly dont have time to play then donking off.gonna pull moshman back out and start building again starting at the full ring2.25s at the tilt
 
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I guess this is a good spot to ask...at what point are people shoving ATC from UTG? I'm talking about late in MTSNGs when you still have 7-9 handed tables but many stacks are <10bb. Earlier I shoved Q5o UTG 8-handed as the blinds had jumped from 500/1k/100 to 600/1200/125 and I had ~7500 chips. Is that stack still large enough to just fold and wait for SB/BTN time to steal? I notice that late in these tournaments you seem to not get all that many opportunities to steal as other stacks are always finding a shove instead of folding to your BTN.

Did you get to the 7500 by taking a beat with a larger stack at the previous blind level, if not then IMHO you may want to have looked for other shoving opportunities earlier. I never think in terms of BB, only M. With my M in the 12-8 range I looking for any shove opportunity.

In your particular scenario though I would skip the UTG shove there with Q5o and 7 behind and looked to shove from the blinds with only 1 or 2 players in the pot.
 
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Well, didn't play that many ST-SNG yet.
Though, of few of them, I finished first in the only 2 I played at , if I remember well, $16,50 at stars, so I must have done something good (instinctly).
Now lacking time during the week to play MTT's I decided to give it a shot in the STT's, read Moshman, and started just a few hours ago, playing 3 STT for 6,50.
Finished 9th, 3rd an first.
However ,this not being an indication at all, I'm to go playing these at least the whole month.
Try to play about 100-200 of them, to see where I stand.
Further, read Moshman again and get the pushbot in my head.
In case I don't do that bad, purchase SNG-Wizard and continue playing STT.
 
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Goals for the month:

Play 40+ SNG's
Play more 90 man MTT's
Profit!
Post more HH
Put learning on shoving ranges into effect

Yearly goals

Play 500+ SNG's - 10% ROI
Develop MTT play - at least 1 win in 90+ player tourney
Play more CC tourneys
Contribute more on this forum
Raise play to a level where I can play in a league
 
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Well, didn't play that many ST-SNG yet.
Though, of few of them, I finished first in the only 2 I played at , if I remember well, $16,50 at stars, so I must have done something good (instinctly).
Now lacking time during the week to play MTT's I decided to give it a shot in the STT's, read Moshman, and started just a few hours ago, playing 3 STT for 6,50.
Finished 9th, 3rd an first.
However ,this not being an indication at all, I'm to go playing these at least the whole month.
Try to play about 100-200 of them, to see where I stand.
Further, read Moshman again and get the pushbot in my head.
In case I don't do that bad, purchase SNG-Wizard and continue playing STT.
played 2 others,one 4th place and one first again, so out of 5 , 2 first places, one 3rd, one fourth (in this one actually sucked out) and one 9th.
Already like those things and will try to play 300+ this month.
 
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Now that Christmas is all over with, I should have some more time to play. So here are my goals:

1. Take what is currently break even play and turn it into positive ROI.
2. Drink less so I don't make dumb AI calls.
3. Get at least 100 games in.
 
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@jilly - I hadn't exactly missed a lot of spots for shoving. That hand is from a turbo 180, average stack at the time was ~12000, so I wasn't criminally low compared to the field. Mainly I've been in these spots lately because I get no opportunities to shove once the tournaments get down to 4-5 tables. It's been rather frustrating really...to get dealt hands perfect for steal-shoving in the SB/BTN/CO area only to see a short-stack in UTG or UTG+1 push their chips in. I'm actually curious if there's some good strategy I'm missing...like, should I be stacking off really light in these spots if it seems like the whole table is just waiting to ship their stack on ATC if it's folded to them? Just seems like once these things get to the nitty gritty of final 3-5 tables someone is all-in by the time it gets to the CO every time.
 
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400 stt's
$200 profit
Top 3 finish in a 200+ player MTT
Go Snowboarding

So far...
45 stt's for -$43.
14 mtt's for $61.95 (no final tables)
zero snowboarding
 
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Ok just started the playing 3.40 Turbos x 18s at Stars... Small goal to start... play 75 this month.
 
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So I've started the year in the best possible way - digging myself into a huge hole that it'll take some time to climb out of. Woo :p
 
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I have a little gold star on SS at the moment, I want to keep it there for the rest of month
 
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