January 25, 2012
Sharkscope!
So I got a sharkscope account, mainly because HEM/PT3 does such a terrible job at tracking tournies for me, and finally worked out how to do one of those funny colour graph things. Around two weeks in and I'm:
Doing ok imo. I need to get in more volume but that shouldn't be a problem now that I'm more used to 9-12 tabling and playing the long hours. It's definitely an interesting ride, I still play pretty poorly in places as I have no idea what to do so either play far too nitty/passive or just spew off chips. I think moving forward I'm going to avoid stars and grind the euro sites. Unsynced breaks totally suck but with smaller fields (mostly <200) and really bad players I think that'll create a winning combination of relatively low variance + high ROI = happy Mitch.
The DC tourney videos have been super solid to learn from, especially jjyykk and IWEARGOGGLES, but I watched a few SEABEAST videos today and it totally blew my mind about how deep you can go into things; betsizing, metagame, ranges etc, etc. Obviously these things won't be very applicable to the stakes I'm playing but now I understand how people can get so hooked on tourneys. Plan moving forward is grind hard (500 games/week), keep on studying and move up to the midstakes which tbh from what I've seen it doesn't seem like that big of a stretch, compared to say moving from small stakes to midstakes in cash.
Oh btw the 70BI downswing is me trying to 30 table the 180s... lulz. Lesson learnt.
8 Comments:
danspeedy1 posted on January 25, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Nice! One question, why are you avoiding stars if your running/playing well there?
BaseMetal posted on January 25, 2012 at 12:21 PM
You may not have learnt the correct, or only, lesson on the 70BI downswing - over tabling may be a problem but you will have to get quite used to 70BI swings in 180s. If you have 40% roi at them you should expect an 80BI or worse swing on average every 1000 games. Clearly you are doing well at these SnGs so keep going - I don't want to be a downer but I always feel swings hurt less when you know they will happen.
Zavodovski posted on January 25, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Haha, I like your Stars SN.
jaimestaples posted on January 25, 2012 at 14:41 PM
Beast Mode! But BaseMetal is right your going to go on tripple those downswings esp if you make it to midstakes. If you can survive it thought its a good time
mitch posted on January 26, 2012 at 00:10 AM
Oh yeah I totally get 70BIs is nothing, and who knows I might even be profitable 30 tabling 180s...
@danspeedy1 - The stars tourneys are pretty soft but euro sites are so much softer... a ton of stuff happens there that you never really see on stars. Also I feel the large fields are somewhat negative for me at this point, I want a more steady, constant grind up and aren't really looking for 2k+ scores + the variance that comes with them.
chuck651 posted on January 26, 2012 at 06:27 AM
lol donkaments
SnappieVouz posted on January 26, 2012 at 20:01 PM
tournament donky
nawhead posted on January 28, 2012 at 05:29 AM
tournies suck your soul.
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