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RamdeeBen
Legend
Silver Level
Hi guys,
I used to play SnG's primarily along with a mix of a few MTT's but now my main focus has been MTT's for the past couple of months with the added few SnG's.
Now, I used to be bankrolled for $1.00/$2.00 MTT's/SnG's, but I won $350.00 and ended up withdrawing most of it. I then decided not to tell the wife if I binked a win again because she guilt trips me in to withdrawing it! Beats the whole objective to what I'm trying to achieve, move up stakes and build my BR. Anyway, so I won a tournament about a week ago for $450.00 which gave me a new $700.00 BR so again I started my grind with a range of buy-ins from $1 - $10 in MTT's and $1-$4 in SnG MTT's.
My question is this, should I remove the $10.00 from my grind? I don't "think" the play is much more better than say anything lower, still quite fishy but obviously you notice a $10.00 chunk going from you BR and I do think about it more than the other tables when I'm in a $10.00 game. I know this isn't really good if you're feeling more love for a particular tournament and slightly more "scared" in shoving even though I try to play them exactly the same as my other lower ones. I just don't know if it is going to be good for my BR long term! I don't play many, I play maybe one a night, two maximum. With the scoop games though, I've just played some more $11/$22 games just because it's the scoop! In general though, because I only now have a small BR to what it could of been.
It also "feels" even though I know it's all physiological but I seem to feel I get more unlucky and sucked out of my stack in the higher buy-ins or like the other night 5x better than AVG stack and somehow manage to get it all in with the only other big stack on the table pre flop with my kings vs his Aces lol.
I lost $50.00 last night, I was running quite bad in general coulden't even build a stack more than 12k in any of the tournaments I played. I knew it wasn't going to be my night but because two games were $10.00 i hit my BR more. I'm down to around $640.00 in BR but should I still stick with playing one or maybe two $10.00 games a night with the others $1-$5 buy -ins? I know it isn't good BR managment but it's all about taking shots?
Also, should I grind out my SnG's more than the MTT's ? I have found MTT's much more interesting and fun and SnG's become literally a boring grind after you have won a few dollars in MTT's. The plus side was I could consistently turn over a profit most times in SNG's and wonder if I should add more of the $4.50 180 man which have good pools.
I can't help but doubt my skill when I lose $50.00 in an evening at micro stakes, granted $20.00 was higher stakes and the whole evening was poor in general, just everything I did wasn't working. My raises/bluff raises were being called, best hands being done by the turn/river cards and so on so I know some of it had variance involved I just seem to let it effect me and I might not be writing this thread IF I didn't have the $10.00 involved as I know the MTT are high in terms of variance, just wonder if it's worth it psychological long term for me or wait till I have over $1k to play the $10.00? I feel cheated as I'd have like $1k now If I didn't withdraw so feel I "should" be taking these shots at the $10.00..as I've built my BR from nearly nothing but not properly rolled, does that make sense? Can it really have a massive impact if I continue at the smaller buy-ins along with the 10's?
Suggestions?
I used to play SnG's primarily along with a mix of a few MTT's but now my main focus has been MTT's for the past couple of months with the added few SnG's.
Now, I used to be bankrolled for $1.00/$2.00 MTT's/SnG's, but I won $350.00 and ended up withdrawing most of it. I then decided not to tell the wife if I binked a win again because she guilt trips me in to withdrawing it! Beats the whole objective to what I'm trying to achieve, move up stakes and build my BR. Anyway, so I won a tournament about a week ago for $450.00 which gave me a new $700.00 BR so again I started my grind with a range of buy-ins from $1 - $10 in MTT's and $1-$4 in SnG MTT's.
My question is this, should I remove the $10.00 from my grind? I don't "think" the play is much more better than say anything lower, still quite fishy but obviously you notice a $10.00 chunk going from you BR and I do think about it more than the other tables when I'm in a $10.00 game. I know this isn't really good if you're feeling more love for a particular tournament and slightly more "scared" in shoving even though I try to play them exactly the same as my other lower ones. I just don't know if it is going to be good for my BR long term! I don't play many, I play maybe one a night, two maximum. With the scoop games though, I've just played some more $11/$22 games just because it's the scoop! In general though, because I only now have a small BR to what it could of been.
It also "feels" even though I know it's all physiological but I seem to feel I get more unlucky and sucked out of my stack in the higher buy-ins or like the other night 5x better than AVG stack and somehow manage to get it all in with the only other big stack on the table pre flop with my kings vs his Aces lol.
I lost $50.00 last night, I was running quite bad in general coulden't even build a stack more than 12k in any of the tournaments I played. I knew it wasn't going to be my night but because two games were $10.00 i hit my BR more. I'm down to around $640.00 in BR but should I still stick with playing one or maybe two $10.00 games a night with the others $1-$5 buy -ins? I know it isn't good BR managment but it's all about taking shots?
Also, should I grind out my SnG's more than the MTT's ? I have found MTT's much more interesting and fun and SnG's become literally a boring grind after you have won a few dollars in MTT's. The plus side was I could consistently turn over a profit most times in SNG's and wonder if I should add more of the $4.50 180 man which have good pools.
I can't help but doubt my skill when I lose $50.00 in an evening at micro stakes, granted $20.00 was higher stakes and the whole evening was poor in general, just everything I did wasn't working. My raises/bluff raises were being called, best hands being done by the turn/river cards and so on so I know some of it had variance involved I just seem to let it effect me and I might not be writing this thread IF I didn't have the $10.00 involved as I know the MTT are high in terms of variance, just wonder if it's worth it psychological long term for me or wait till I have over $1k to play the $10.00? I feel cheated as I'd have like $1k now If I didn't withdraw so feel I "should" be taking these shots at the $10.00..as I've built my BR from nearly nothing but not properly rolled, does that make sense? Can it really have a massive impact if I continue at the smaller buy-ins along with the 10's?
Suggestions?
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