January 2010 - Hello DoN!

Double or Nothing SnGs are ridiculous. I can't stand them. The rake is unbelievable on ipoker for these (10% up to and including the 55$ games) and you need to play like a nit....but I want to master them so I'm gonna try and play as many as possible over the next couple of months.

Earlier this week i gave the 55$ DoNs a bash and jumped right in 9-12 tabling these, looking back now I'm pretty sure I was making a ton of mistakes, as well as running pretty bad (all sng grinders run bad! :P) and I dropped about 20BI. So I've went back to sngWIZ start reviewing my game again, which is something I don't do enough of.

I've spent a bit of time analysing them with SnGWiz and it's ridiculous how tight you need to be on the bubble, so I'm gonna tone down the aggression and try not to spite call other regs on the bubble ( as much! :) ) as I'll just be burning money.

I've also purchased a little add-on for sngWiz which is really cool, WizHUD. It overlays HUD stats onto SnGWiz which really helps to assign ranges when reviewing your sng play. One feature of this program is that you can middle click a hand (or a selection of hands) in holdem manager and it will then load up in SnGWiz, magic - I love it!

WizHUD is the creation of 2+2 STTF'r "Hood" and more info can be found on his site here - sickread - well worth 16$ imo

I'm gonna use this blog to keep track of my winnings this year, as I fail pretty bad at keeping track of this stuff. I have estimates of previous years income from poker but all my hand histories and excel tables are scattered over about 6 hard drives, so I guess if I put here I won't lose the info once my laptop dies / PC fails. Plus hopefully this will motivate me into putting in maximum effort into improving as a player and increasing my volume.

January Profit so far: +3300$
2010 Profit so far: +3300$