...Yep.

I'm trying to up the posting amplitude a bit, but there's not much coming to me right now. Nothing all that new or exciting to talk about. Hm.

The new and improved SnG challenge I've got going on for myself hasn't really gotten anywhere - I played in three, was OoTM for two and 2nd in one, which is something like a ten cent loss. Woo.

I must say, though, it's going to take a few days to get used to not doing mindless ultra-turbos anymore. I actually have to think now. It caught me off guard in the first two, actually - I kept playing way too aggressively, especially given the nofoldemness of my stakes, and I was down to half my chipstack in no time before I realized what I was doing. I'm not used to actually going ten minutes and just folding without having the blinds up to 25/50, on the verge of 50/100.

I guess in that sense, the ultra-turbos were actually dangerous. Not only were they not all that profitable and far too luckbox oriented, they completely fucked with my mindset in SnGs in general. I'll have to work hard to extra patient at first now that I'm back to normal, not so crazy SnGs. The plus side is that the normal ones are really pretty easy to beat if you're patient and don't try to push people out of pots early on.

And that's about all I have for today. Maybe I'll actually ramble my way into a decent post one of these days.

Shifting Gears

I want to pretend that the ultra-turbos are working for me on UB, but I have to face the facts, and those facts are that I've basically broken even after 35 sit n gos. Now, that's not the hugest sample size, but based on how little my actual play seems to be really affecting my results, I think that the variance is just too high in the ultra-turbos for them to be profitable. In the end, if the cards fall for me, I win. If not, I lose. I feel like there's very little I can do with my playing to change that when the blinds are going up every 2.5 minutes.

So, it's time for me to admit defeat on that venture. I'm going to go in the completely opposite direction with this and just do 10-man non-turbos. I think that if I just play those and play them tight, waiting for good hands and letting the fish pay me off, I'll be able to do well much more consistently. I love UB's blind structure on normal SnGs/tournaments, because it's very slow and allows plenty of time for me to make good plays and increase my stack before the blinds start to press down on me. Granted, I'm not going to be able to toss an SnG into any half an hour or so of computer time that I have available anymore, but I definitely think that it'll be better in the long run.

Other than that switch, everything's the same. I'll start a new chart and keep track of my placements, I'll keep doing the 2% or less buyin strategy (meaning I need $50 to move up in stakes), and I'll just keep on grinding. Hopefully this'll be a grind that doesn't lead me in circles forever.

I really hope that this'll work. I'm very tired of being so stagnant.