I think the time has come to take my leave from work. I'm lucky enough to be allowed a one year leave from work without losing my position. Initially I wanted to focus on MTT's, but I've changed my mind and will focus on 18 man turbo's and 6 max hyper ko's. The reason I decided to change is simple. I find I can play the sit and go's for longer periods of time on a daily basis much more optimally than I can play mtt's on a daily basis. Tilt factor in sng's is pretty much non existent, whereas in mtt's I do tilt more often. Another factor is alcohol. It's been a bad habit of mine that when I play mtt's I tend to drink, whereas with sng's I don't drink. These are two major factors in my decision to go this route and will overall be much better for my game and my health.

My goals is to play between 100 this month as I'm still working. Come January once I'm off work I would like to play between 180-200 hours. I will start with 4 table as I only have one screen at home, but would eventually like to get up to 8 tables. My other goal is to keep this updated and to post some interesting hands. And finally, I will be putting in the work off the table as I will finally start using ICMizer2 and most likely get some coaching from a well known sng coach.

Question, besides ICMizer what other software is ideal for sng's? I was looking at Flopzilla, but I'm not sure if that's really helpful for these games. Any ideas?

Good luck to everyone!

Icmizer or HRC are the most important software for sngs. Besides that, you can get Pokerstrategy equilab for postflop equity calculations. The top 6max hyper/turbo guys also use piosolver, but i think, that is not yet needed for 18 mans. The best is to review hands of other regs, as you will find a lot of weak/ very exploitable ones. Also you will find that some of the reg's openshove and raise-call/fold ranges are very unbalanced etc.

GL

Thanks for the reply. I don't have PT4 yet and I know there's an equity calculator built in there, I'm wondering if PT4 is worth getting for multi tabling sng's? I think there could be some good value in there as you're able to tag hands for review during play which seems pretty cool, as well as the other features.

As far as regs having unbalanced ranges, yes I agree and after playing with the same few for a while it's easy to pick up on a few of them, but certainly reviewing the hands would help even more. I've never used a HUD, but I think for multi tabling in this quick format it should probably be used.

gl op, isn't SNG wiz supposed to be good, im not sure as I play mtt's. Awesome you have a whole year off work mbn..

Lets hope you can crack it in 12 months and maybe you wont be going back to work! Subbed obv

Thanks dude.

Over the past year I've put in a lot of work for mtt play and I love mtt's, I just have a very strong association to mtt's and alcohol which over time if I want to grind can't happen for obvious reasons. I've played sng's off and on for a long time now and I've never had the urge to drink and I can stay pretty focused for the majority of the time which I find hard to do with mtt's.

I've been doing a lot of research and have seen many reviews where players prefer icmizer over sngwiz, so that's where I made my decision, but I'm still deciding if it's better to go with pt4 or just an equity calculator like pokerstrategy equilab.

I think, you should definetly go for a hud. HM2 or PT4 are both worth it. When 4 tabling only, it is not that neccesary, but when you start adding more tables (which you should aim to do asap), it will be very usefull. And I wouldnt use sngwiz.

Going to put in a light grind session today at the 18 man turbos. Aiming to play 3 hours at the same time will be looking to teach my g/f as shes looking to learn how to play. Going to be getting Pokercruncher as Im on a Mac and it looks really user friendly. I'll update later by posting some interesting hands. Will also review after the session using icmizer.

Put in 4 hours yesterday, about 50/50 working on icmizer and playing, still getting used to it and put in another 4 hours today again about 50/50. Working on helping my g/f learn the basics of push/fold. Had some decent results and played pretty good overall.

Goal: 100 hours

Down to 96 hours

Been studying a bit more than I usually do, I guess its not a bad thing, but eventually soon I will have to make it more 80/20 play and study.
Been lazy about posting hands on here as there were a few interesting spots, but its micro sngs so not sure if I'll get much feedback in this forum.

Ran this hand through Icmizer (chip BBev) and it a + 0.29bb shove with SB calling the top 15% of their range and BB overcalling 8%. But it only comes to a +0.03bb shove if SB is calling 26% of their range (which they did). Overall it's a profitable shove, looking for some feedback as to what others might do here? I think r/f could be an option, but it seems a little bad. I'm not a big fan of limping, but I suppose this could be a spot?

Put in 2 1/2 hours with 1 hour study today, play time down from 100 to 94.5

Do we ever just jam this pre? What about my raise OTF? Too big? I felt I was definitely ahead, but are we just calling or making it a little less?

So it's Monday and I'm back at work. I've gone a full week without drinking and playing online MTTs which is huge for me. I can't remember the last time I've gone this long without doing that. I've really been able to focus solely on sng's and I'm pretty happy so far that I haven't felt the need to drink and play mtt's. It may seem a little ridiculous to some, but the association between alcohol and mtt's is very strong and I only drink when I play mtt's, besides that I'm sober in my life.

My g/f is really putting in the work as well and she's really motivated to get better. Over the last few years she's had many jobs, but nothing really worth pursuing as a career. She's graduated University and plans to go back to take a course in physical therapy which I think is great.

As for me, well I'm still planning on taking at least 3 months-year off work. Ultimately we would like to move down south for the winter to either Costa Rica or Playa Del Carmen and grind it there for the winter. I get depressed here in the winter and overall the winters haven't been great for my mood.

Today the plan is to put in at least 3 hours of playing with a review session afterwards. Just bought the PokerCruncher app from the Apple store so will play around with that.

GL everyone!

Past couple of days have not been productive. I ended up deciding to play some MTT's Monday night (and have some beers too) and although I did make some horrendous plays, overall I didn't play too badly. Actually scrap that, I did drink a lot and it did effect my play and although I did make some runs it wasn't a very +ev decision to do that. I am still trying to make sng's my priority and I still plan on building my roll that way. I do like the Beat the Clock games as they $1 and $5 games appear to be soft, so I will be adding those into the mix. They are harder to play while multi tabling as they are so fast. Will get back into the grind for the rest of the week.

GL everyone!

Wednesday night put in 4 hours of play with about 30min of icm work. Ive been playing Beat the Clock (btc) and they are fun and the $5 games are soft enough that I think its a good roi even with the rake.

Goal: Play 100 hours
Current: played 10 hours

Played about 2 hours today so far, just some btc and hyper ko's. Played well, made a few loose shoves in BTC and it appears that people are limping very weak and calling off weak so I like to attack the limpers with Ax types of hands hands that i would normally fold early on. I'm not sure with the structure of the tourneys if ICMizer will be able to adapt to this format. Maybe I'll ask it in the forum.

Goal: Play 100 hours
Current: played 12 hours

Going to have a new goal and that is to write out my goals for January 2017. Just going to keep them simple and hopefully acheivable as it's so easy to get of track

Gl everyone!

Well ****ed up again and played MTT's while drinking. I usually start off very strong and obviously when the beers and Red Bull kick in things can get messy. Also, absolutely zero BRM when I play MTT's. It's fine when seen as I have a decent paying job, but if I take the year off BRM has to be my main focus. Actually played some $0.50/$1 and $0.25/$0.50 6 man cash cap games and played solid. These games really suit me as they remind me of 6 man hypers and my push/fold game is strong so I take well to these games. I think I might start incorporating them a bit into my schedule. The next post will be my goals for January 2017.

GL all!

standard raise here. u are way too deep to shove IMO. not to say a shove isn't profitable. QJ plays ok postflop though. there is a lot of play left in this sng. a5 is a very bad call

Yeah I agree. At what bb level would you shove?

you should pay more attention to the rake, those cap games are a rake trap and the BTC can not be much better

by the way you can just exclude your self from playing MTTs somewhere in the lobby

Yeah the BTC I believe are 12% rake which is ridiculous, I probably wont spend much time on them and I know there is an exclusion option, but I need to work on this leak of mine.

Goals will be to play mostly 6 man ko's, 18 and 180 man turbo's. I've been looking to work on my cash game skills as I've not put any work in that department, but I know to become an all around better player it's good to know those skills. I've put in a few hours playing 5-10z and 10-25z with decent results over a very small sample. I can see how my opening ranges widen quite a bit and that the value of suited connectors increases while I think the value of big pairs decreases.

Played about 3 hours yesterday, I didn't review anything. Going to try and put in another 3 hours today with a review session at the end.

Goal: 100 hours
Current: played 13 hours

Also need to write out my poker/life goals for January.

GL all!

Wow, already off track. Been playing zoom and BTC a bit too much and these are definitely not the games I enjoy playing, so I don't know why I do. STICK TO YOUR DAMN GOALS KID! **** I'm bad at managing myself. Get back at it tonight, solely 6 man ko's and 18 man turbo's.

wait,what? how?