Hi all

After a really horrible period of being stuck in no mans land and not sure which direction to take after failing miserably in cash games (breaking even at the micros and then slowly tilting it off)

Ive gone back to SNGs and in the future aiming for more MTTs!!

So its back to basics for me and ive taken a really nitty approach to the 18 man SNGs on FT, although its a small sample size i would really appreciate any words of wisdom etc to help me along.. im gonna post below some of my HEM stats which may help you give me some advice!!

Thanks a lot in advance if you post any thoughts, much appreciated.

Hey buddy,

I thinks seeing as your playing low stakes, you should play turbo STT's like 6 or 10 people as this will give you a lot of experience of tournament situations in a short period of time. I'd also stick to either just cash, or just tournaments they are very different games and you need different mindsets.

And (maybe at the same time if you can multi table) one or two big MTT tournaments, like 200 people+ where you can potentially make a big scoop if you have a good tournament.

The turbo STTs are good practise because you meet a large variety of situations (i.e. big stack with small blinds, medium stack with medium blinds, last 2-3 players with big blinds, being short stacked, being chip leader, etc.) that are good practise for when you are in a big tournament.

Hope this helps

Steve (Hopelesglory)

Awesome.... i got a reply lol cheers m8!!
I carried on with them and then moved onto the super turbos 9man.

heres my final standings on the 18mans:

i then played thru the $1.50 supers:






Now currently playing the $3.50 supers:

Nice Per Hr yield on the $3.80 games so far mate, Multi tab them babys up

Just being looking at this hold em manager software.

What is the main reason for having it? as it seems there's alot too it, and im wondering if it will benefit me seen as i only play 2-3 days a week??

HM will track all the hands you play, and all the players you play against, Profit and Loss, and filters to find leaks in your game with a heads up display on the playing table of there stats (stats will give you an idea of there style)

Interesting, think ill do a spread sheet 1st of and see how that goes, if it helps ill look at HM


Any chance i could have a copy of your blank one m8?
Ill pm ya my addy.. cheers.

Thanks EVO

Ive been 4-6 tabling so far and going to continue with that for now. I want to put in a nice volume around the $3 and $7 buyins to see what my true roi is before i start opening more up, what do you think?

Ah also thanks for the thoughts HOPES!!

Im going to look into the tournys like u suggested but what about if i played the 180man sngs???

92 is a small sample still but in the lower stakes there is not only the level skill to learn but the players also as you will find the same guy's in the next level or 2 up, so data collected on them is great value, only thing I'd say is monitor your ROI as sessions the more you play, a constant lower of it over several session is a sign of becoming complacent at the level and time to move up.

For SnG's "overated" is ya man for advice really

Will do Evo cheers.... just waiting for something sarcastic now from mr Bainn!!

any update trap setter mate how u doing?

Hey Hopes

Ive been hammering the super turbos to tweak push fold game and im about to start playing the $5buyin 18mans now, so will update soon!!