I'm an idiot

I forgot all about the 3.40 10 man SNGs on Stars. I had my filter set for 9 man games and had been playing the non turbo $3 games when I had been playing. Reading up on the Double or Nothing games now that the rake is a lot lower. Seems the lower limits are juicy. I'm doing ok in the 3.40Ts at the moment. 2 sets of 16 and I'm going to do some more tonight after dinner and maybe donk around in the DoNs at either the $1 or most likely the $5 level. Hand below was kind of funny cause of his chat afterward. He acted like I read his soul or something and to me this was an easy call down when the Ace comes on the turn. The odds he has the Ace are pretty small here imo.

PokerStars Game #22418743354: Tournament #123365594, $3.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2008/11/27 17:11:30 ET
Table '123365594 1' 10-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: cuapiote (1320 in chips)
Seat 2: CccGamble (2035 in chips)
Seat 3: jackofheartz (1400 in chips)
Seat 4: Chozzen1 (3915 in chips)
Seat 7: beat2death (1375 in chips)
Seat 9: slabaki (4955 in chips)
Chozzen1: posts small blind 50
beat2death: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to jackofheartz [Qc Qh]
slabaki: folds
cuapiote: folds
CccGamble: folds
jackofheartz: raises 200 to 300
Chozzen1: calls 250
beat2death: folds
*** FLOP *** [Ts Ad 8c]
Chozzen1: checks
jackofheartz: bets 300
Chozzen1: calls 300
*** TURN *** [Ts Ad 8c] [Ah]
Chozzen1: checks
jackofheartz: checks
*** RIVER *** [Ts Ad 8c Ah] [Jh]
Chozzen1: bets 800
jackofheartz: calls 800 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Chozzen1: shows [5s 2s] (a pair of Aces)
jackofheartz: shows [Qc Qh] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
jackofheartz collected 2900 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2900 | Rake 0
Board [Ts Ad 8c Ah Jh]
Seat 1: cuapiote folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: CccGamble folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: jackofheartz (button) showed [Qc Qh] and won (2900) with two pair, Aces and Queens
Seat 4: Chozzen1 (small blind) showed [5s 2s] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 7: beat2death (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: slabaki folded before Flop (didn't bet)

He says after the hand GC I guess. Then he later says its a sic call.

OK last update on todays stats. I ran horrible especially HU. I think when I get 50 buy ins I'm going to try the 5.20 Double or nothings and see how I like them.

Games played 82
ROI 13%
Profits $36.20
1st: 7
2nd: 18 (Yes I ran that bad HU)
3rd: 8
4th: 8 (Donks call lighter than I thought on bubble today)

Jackal69 SNG Vids at Card Runners

I haven't had a chance to play much the last couple of weeks. Lots of rumors at work about an upcoming lay off that may cost me my job I'm not sure. So I've been trying to get in as many hours as possible.

Anyway I've started watching this 10 part SNG video series from Jackal69 at Card Runners. He's also written a SNG book but I haven't gotten it yet. His video series seems kind of basic but since I haven't played in a while I figure its good to reinforce the basics. For beginning players I think this is an excellent series. It doesn't appear to be as math based as a lot of Sheets videos I saw at PXF but the math really confuses beginning players imo.

I think this weekend I'm going to play some 9 man 6.50Ts. I'm under rolled for them but I can deposit some more if need be so I'm going to 6 table them until I can get 50+ BIs then try to move up to 12-16 games. I'm still thinking about the 6 max SNGs but I feel I need to do more work to get comfortable in them though. I hope to put in a lot of volume this weekend as I don't have any plans for Thanksgiving other than a dinner on Friday night with my dad. So hopefully I can get in a lot of games and work some of the rust off my SNG game. If this layoff does come and jobs are getting even harder to find I may be back to grinding micro SNGs again.

6 max SNGs?

OK I've tried these before with little success but I never really put much effort in them. I went from them to HU games and never went back. But I ran across Jhub's blog again and I remember hearing how soft the 6 max SNGs were there. And since I'm not playing for a paycheck anymore I've really thought about these tonight. I'll have to put in a lot of SNGPT/SNG Wiz work not only because my SNG game is rusty but 6 max SNGs are a different animal. I won't be able to play 16 games at a time either but I think thats fine. It will definately help keep me from getting burned out of them. Nothings definite and I'm working 6 days and probably 9 or 10 hours a day so if I play this week it won't be much. But I may try to play just a few games at a time at some micro stakes 6 max games and then review every game until I get a feel for them.

Back to 9 man SNGs

OK I had plans of playing more this week but a lot of stuff went on at work and I just didn't play any. I did get some games in this weekend at the 3.40s and multi tabled them. Broke even on the day I think after about 40 games. Had a great start and a horrible finish to get back down to even. I have just over 50 buy ins for these and I'm going to grind them until I get enough for 50 buy ins for the 6.50 turbos. From there I'll want at least 75 buy ins before going back to the 16Ts which used to be home.

I may decide to grind 6.50s until I have the roll for some micro stakes 6 max LHE. I'm not sure what direction I want to head in and I'm going to keep my options open. I've thought about grinding 16Ts and playing $25 and under MTTs. Mainly cause I have fun playing MTTs and I can be profitable in them. But my work schedule will make it hard to play many games outside of cash and SNGs so I may go over to 6 max cash games. Timing will be hard on playing these games cause I work during prime time and I don't want poker to turn back into a grind for me. I want to still enjoy playing the game so we'll wait and see what works best for me.

Back in the game again

I decided this week to start playing some low stakes HU games. Today was my 1st day playing the 6.25s on Stars and I've run like complete shit. 0-4 in my 1st 4 games. Everyone is back dooring flushes on me, I'm losing all my all in races and my pairs can't beat Ax, and I just lost another 96 to 76 on a 6 hi board all in on flop, when I turn 2 pair and he rivers straight. Not exactly how I thought my return to poker was going to start out lol

This is getting sick as every moron with a gutshot is getting all in and getting there. I'm running 2 pair into higher 2 pair. I finished the day 11/13 so I dropped a few buy ins but I felt pretty good about my play. I know I've got a lot of rust to get through but I ran really bad today as well.