Improving my 15% ROI at SnGs
03-06-2020
, 11:26 AM
Still stuck on the 9 man $3 SnG at Global. I am tempted to move up because I am rolled for it, but have a personal vendetta to beat that game. Down to 13% now. 
Before this, I was playing $1 SnG. In November I wanted to finish in the top 10(based on Sharkscope) for the $1 6 man turbo and ended up 1st. I feel I usually play good to great in these games but it's getting to the point where I'm questioning whether I have some serious leak I am neglecting to notice or just running really bad. Maybe I should record a session and let others be critical of my actual play.
The one thing I have noticed with the $3 game, is usually half the table are nitty regs and it often plays like a hyper because we are often 7 handed+ with all of us(except maybe 1) with less than 10BB when it gets to the 75/150 level. Obviously I steal a lot when this happens. It just makes the luck factor so much more than it would be in a deep stack game.
Before this, I was playing $1 SnG. In November I wanted to finish in the top 10(based on Sharkscope) for the $1 6 man turbo and ended up 1st. I feel I usually play good to great in these games but it's getting to the point where I'm questioning whether I have some serious leak I am neglecting to notice or just running really bad. Maybe I should record a session and let others be critical of my actual play.
The one thing I have noticed with the $3 game, is usually half the table are nitty regs and it often plays like a hyper because we are often 7 handed+ with all of us(except maybe 1) with less than 10BB when it gets to the 75/150 level. Obviously I steal a lot when this happens. It just makes the luck factor so much more than it would be in a deep stack game.
Last edited by Jr0d; 03-06-2020 at 11:27 AM.
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03-10-2020
, 12:03 PM
Quote:
Concerning the variance:
Source: STT FAQ: VARIANCE, DOWNSWINGS, AND SAMPLE SIZE
Sorry, that you are going through a rough patch. The problem seems to be that you haven't played enough. Your current ROI might be pretty meaningless, but I can understand that you are checking your results and want to see some progression at the end of the day.
Some random tips which helped me deal with variance/swings/confidence:
- Try Cascading and auto-closing tables. You don't see the results of your shoves and if you bust the table is quietly closing in the background.
- Pay attention to rake, rakeback, bonuses and other promotions. Paying 12% Rake against decent competition, without rakeback or bonuses (PokerStars 1.50$ STT's) is much harder to beat than 8.50% Rake, softer competition, minimum of 20% rakeback plus Bonuses and Missions (ParyPoker 2$ STT's).
- Play on a good site. I don't know much about Global Poker, but I heard their rake is huge, the site is infested with bots and people are complaining about an unusual amount of bad beats (I would not read too much into that though
).
- Work on your game! If you are sure that you are making the right decisions and your downswing is purely luck than you should be able to handle it. The worst about a downswing is that you are beginning to question your game and your confidence drops. Working on your game and accordingly getting the confidence in one's game back is really important imo.
- Listen to some music while you play.
- Conservative bankroll management - losing 1% of your BR due to a bad beat won't affect you as much as losing 10% to a suckout.
- Invest some time/money into an ICM software and work with it. (You can start using the Nash Calculator from HRC to begin to get a feeling for shoving ranges before you invest into the full program). If you actually get it in ahead most of the time you are probably shoving/calling to tight. Double-check some spots to make sure that you are not having some unplugged leaks.
Best of Luck!
Source: STT FAQ: VARIANCE, DOWNSWINGS, AND SAMPLE SIZE
Sorry, that you are going through a rough patch. The problem seems to be that you haven't played enough. Your current ROI might be pretty meaningless, but I can understand that you are checking your results and want to see some progression at the end of the day.
Some random tips which helped me deal with variance/swings/confidence:
- Try Cascading and auto-closing tables. You don't see the results of your shoves and if you bust the table is quietly closing in the background.
- Pay attention to rake, rakeback, bonuses and other promotions. Paying 12% Rake against decent competition, without rakeback or bonuses (PokerStars 1.50$ STT's) is much harder to beat than 8.50% Rake, softer competition, minimum of 20% rakeback plus Bonuses and Missions (ParyPoker 2$ STT's).
- Play on a good site. I don't know much about Global Poker, but I heard their rake is huge, the site is infested with bots and people are complaining about an unusual amount of bad beats (I would not read too much into that though
).- Work on your game! If you are sure that you are making the right decisions and your downswing is purely luck than you should be able to handle it. The worst about a downswing is that you are beginning to question your game and your confidence drops. Working on your game and accordingly getting the confidence in one's game back is really important imo.
- Listen to some music while you play.
- Conservative bankroll management - losing 1% of your BR due to a bad beat won't affect you as much as losing 10% to a suckout.
- Invest some time/money into an ICM software and work with it. (You can start using the Nash Calculator from HRC to begin to get a feeling for shoving ranges before you invest into the full program). If you actually get it in ahead most of the time you are probably shoving/calling to tight. Double-check some spots to make sure that you are not having some unplugged leaks.
Best of Luck!
about the sites, softer competition and rakeback, what's your advice for amauter player just for fun at low stack, is Pokerstars a good site?
04-05-2020
, 10:43 AM
Generally speaking Pokerstars is a trustworthy site with the best software. The competition is considered to be tougher than on other sites and their "bonus"program is pretty lackluster from what I heard. Rake starts to matter only if you play decent volume so for an amateur it is not superimportant. I personally would stick to one of the bigger sites (PartyPoker and 888Poker) as they offer some quite nice deposit bonus, tourney tickets and a player pool which might be a little softer than on Stars (this might actually not be true anymore as PP's SNG promotions have brought many regulars). It's hard to give a general answer but I would make sure that you have a trustworthy site with a working software as loosing all your money due to a scam or some buggy software is the worst imo
