I May Never Work Again

I am absolutely killing the SNGs. I cannot believe how easy these games are.

White is right... stick to the $20 SNGs... Hang out for a big hand, get your money in, double up and sit back while the maniacs work.

It's almost a guaranteed cash, fellas.

I've been in a habbit lately of posting my stats from my daily sessions. Well, I understand it may not be the most exciting thing to read, but it is a very telling testimate to the fish that swim in those waters. This will be the last time, I promise. Oh! And I have another bad beat story....

Today's session (it was long, but it was profitable):

Hands Dealt: 462
Hands Won: 21% (97)
Showdowns Won: 74%

---Flop Hands---
Flops Seen: 25% (115)
Win % if Flops Seen: 46% (50)


The most telling stat of all is that I was able to pick up the pot 47 times without ever seeing the flop. When I did see the flop (115 times), I won 50 pots.

Pick your spots and make money. Easy as that.

Here's this weekend's SNG stats:

Thursday: 1 SNG, 1 cash: 1st
Friday: 2 SNGs, 2 cashes: 1st, 2nd
Saturday: 2 SNGs, 2 cashes: 1st, 2nd
Sunday: 9 SNGs, 4 cashes: 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd (mental note: Never again try to play SNGs while watching football)
Monday: 8 SNGs, 5 cashes: 1st, 1st, 1st, 2nd, 3rd

22 SNGs, 13 cashes (65%). $484 spent, $1040 made for a $556 profit.

The last SNG I played, I made a few moves early that cost me a lot of chips. I found myself severely short-stacked (T100) on hand 6 of level 3 (blinds 25/50) and 6 players left.

I had just bluffed off 90% of my chips into a guy that was holding the nuts. Never fun...

I waited a couple of hands until I was UTG and picked up A-5 os. I moved all-in for 4x the BB and got 2 callers. When the ace flopped and they checked it down, I knew I was on my way to tripling up. I did, and I never looked back.

After I won, I realized that I had just come back from a rediculous deficit to do so. When I was down to T100, the average chip stack was almost T1600. When I went heads up, I was down T1170 to T6830. After about 20 mins of grinding heads-up, I finally took the lead on hand 20. 3 hands later, he made a move with A-5 os into my pocket 8s and it was over.

So, I promised you all a bad beat story, and here it is. I STUPIDLY thought I could head over to a ring game to pick up an additional $8 to make my winnings an even $500. Then this happened:

***** Hand History for Game 2779316866 *****
$25 NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, September 26, 15:50:30 EDT 2005
Table Table 54979 (6 max) (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: YosemiteSam9 ( $34.98 )
Seat 4: BigHeeb91 ( $14.07 )
Seat 3: justinbrown ( $23.86 )
Seat 6: BWG01 ( $27.41 )
Seat 5: haliejack ( $13.70 )
Seat 1: Jayster372 ( $24.25 )
haliejack posts small blind [$0.10].
BWG01 posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to BigHeeb91 [ 8s Jd ]
Jayster372 folds.
YosemiteSam9 calls [$0.25].
justinbrown calls [$0.25].
BigHeeb91 calls [$0.25].
haliejack folds.
BWG01 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9d, 7d, Th ]
BWG01 bets [$0.25].
YosemiteSam9 calls [$0.25].
justinbrown raises [$1.50].
BigHeeb91 raises [$6].
BWG01 folds.
YosemiteSam9 folds.
justinbrown is all-In [$22.11]
BigHeeb91 is all-In [$7.82]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7h ]
BigHeeb91 shows [ 8s, Jd ] a straight, seven to jack.
justinbrown shows [ 9h, 7c ] a full house, Sevens full of nines.
justinbrown wins $9.79 from side pot #1 with a full house, Sevens full of nines.
justinbrown wins $27.79 from the main pot with a full house, Sevens full of nines.


I can't emphasize it enough... Stay away from these ring games and play the $20 SNGs.

I am so ready for Vegas.