My journey in regular sit and go.

I first started playing sng in early 2009 and had no idea of ICM (heard of it), handranges, push/fold, multitabling or variance. So I made myself a little challenge; would play 20-30 sngs and see how I would do, and calculate my ROI. Apparently I thought that if I could make some money in those few games, I would be overall winning!?

So I started nice and easy with one table $5+0.50 on Ipoker, and had a pretty good start with one 3rd, two 2nd and one 1st place in only 7 games. Then I tried a single $10+1 and won it! From there on I decided that this was way better than loose your whole stack in cashgame to a 3-outer.

I continued to play the $5 and instead of moving up, I decided to put more tables on. First 2, then 4 and by may 2009 I had played my first 21 $5 games with a healthy ROI of 29.9%. Yes, I know - only 21 games in 3-4 months.

In august 2009 after playing around 100 $5 and still having a ROI of around  30% I tried to move up and play $10 but could not win in them. So after about 150 games I got tired of not getting anywhere, and stopped playing sng.

Then i February 2010 I stumbled over Moshman stake and applied for a stake, playing the 45man turbo. I got a 50/50 contract and had to play 100 games a week. After the first week and a profit off $96, I made my first encounter with the bitch called variance. And after another 60 games, loosing almost everything again, I asked for the stake to end, as I could not deal with the swings, and had to admit that I was not to be a grinder, but had to settle with poker as a hobby.

Somewhat crestfallen, I hiked around in poker-nowhereland not able to decide what to play. Finally in August 2010 - after quite some studying - I made my mind up to start in the $5 sng again, now at FullTilt. Started with 4 tables, then quickly 6- and 8-tabling.

But man these games take sooo long, so I tried shifting to turbos and got hammered:

Quickly back to regular again, and when I looked at my graph of the $5, I decided it was time to move up:

I started my move to the next level with 2 tables at a time, then 4 and now 6 tables. Now when I had my encounter with that bitch called variance again in the turbos, I fell on my knees and apologized to her: I'm so sorry ma'am for calling you a bitch" and now look what happened with my game:





WOW - what a heater! Finally she paid me back from the all the turbo 45s and 9s. So now when I play, I have my ma'am standing next to me. Sure hope she's gonna stay for long.

Now I know i have very few games, but when I look at my EV-adjusted ROI it still is very healthy with 24.5%. Furthermore, the most players in these games are just horrible, spewing chips left and right. But lets see how things develop when things eventually goes for the worse and the green line turns.