Discuss

Just got done downing some quality Taco Bell and watching the WSOP, so I figured I would get in my last SNG before I hit 75 and then convey to you folks how I was doing and what I discovered.

For those of you who are not familiar with what I am doing, I am playing 100 $10 sng on pokerstars and keeping track of every hand and how I am doing.  I started with $100 in my account and figured once I got up to $600, which is 30x the buyin, I would move up to $20 and then continue.  I also take an advantage of pokerstars bonus program, so basically that means that I don't pay any rake on sng's.

Here is an overall breakdown of the overal stats, I will get into same hole cards and stats on those.

(w/Bonus)

SNG's Played: 75
ROI%:            24.36(33.45)
ITM%:            42.67
AVG Finish:    4.40
1st:                  14
2nd:                  8
3rd:                  10

Overal hand stats:

# of Hands:             5336
Saw flops:               31.52%
Saw flop not in blind:17.04%
Won % when saw flop: 41.20%
Went to showdown:   30%
won at showdown:     49.71%
Raised Pre-flop:         14%

Now some hands:

My top five hands are:

KK 88%
AA 81.25%
QQ 79.17%
AKo 78.05%
A5s  73.68%(not really sure why on this)

Bottom Five are:

94os
J3s
96s
72s
62s
42s(Tried to win pot with this but they would not fold)
Have not won a pot with any of those

Hand I get the most:

AQo   67
KJo    63
K2o    63
T4o     61
54o     60

Hands I get the least:

T3s  8
J6s   8
Q5s  9
ATs  9
65s   10
QJs   10
95s   10
62s    10
42s    10

These hands I have won everytime I saw the flop:

93o
k8s
102s
J5s
K3s

These are hands I raise with the most when in the pot first

ATs  66.67%
AKs  60%
TT    56.52%
AQs   56.25%
AKo   53.66%

So it seems in this challenge that I go through games where I win 5 or 6 in a row, then lose 3 or 4 in a row.  I am not 100 percent positive why this happens but I think it has alot to do with the hands I get late in the tourney, basically late in the tourney I raise alot, like about 30% to 50% of the pots.  These donkeys I am playing seem to get mad at me.  So basically I have set them up to reraise me and then I can call when I get a big hand.  Well when I go out 3rd,4th or 5th it seems I never get that big hand either on flop or later or preflop and there for I just get reraised alot and have to dump my hands. 

You may be saying well duh Brian why don't you just tighten up and wait for big hand and nail them.  Well the problem is sitting around this late in tourney is just appettite for failure, especially if you have a pretty meduim stack.  It also seems the players never raise or raise min pre if they do raise, then if you raise them they just call.  I have no problem with smooth calling an aggressive player, but then if you are too scared to bet your hand when you hit and don't get paid off cause aggressive players slows down, you are missing chips and also might get your hand outdrawn.

This is really the only problem I have ran into and this is why I am doing this challenge.  I am doing it for the money in the long run, but I want to learn how to play against different players.  I understand that most $10 players are not very good, but as I move up I am sure I will encounter better players who will make me better.

I will let you know when I get to 100 and also when I move up to $20 ones.