Yes!! Here's a rough graph of my month of september:



And the boring stats:

BetHoldEm ($250 bonus whoring)
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SNGs: 117
Net: +$811
ROI: +20%
ITM: 49%
Hourly rate: $40.5/hr


BoDog ($50 whoring)
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SNGs: 39
Net: +$210
ROI: +19%
ITM: 44%
Hourly Rate: $25/hr


PokerStars ($120 whoring)
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SNGs: 112
Net: +$560
ROI: +18%
ITM: 41%
Hourly rate: $43/hr


PokerRoom ($250 whoring)
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SNGs: 39
Net: +627
ROI: +68.67%
ITM: 46%
Hourly rate: INSANE!!!

I still have a while to go before clearing that PokerRoom bonus. And with this bullsh*t legislation recently being passed, I'm definitely upping my poker hours!

I've said this countless times before, but I'll say again: The biggest step you can make to consistently beating SNGs is buying and studying its applications.

Before online poker dies down entirely (a good 9 months or more from now), do yourself a favor and buy SNG-PT. You will not regret it!

These are $30 buy in or what?

A mix of 22s and 33s but occasionally some 55s or 11s.

The calling ranges I use depend on the players and the site. On tighter sites like PokerStars and Ultimatebet, lacking reads, I use the default calling ranges for most players, with only a couple in the loose calling range. On other sites, I set the default range to loose. With a read on the player being loose, I'll give them a maniac calling range. If you're really short-stacked and they're really big-stacked, you probably will be called even more than that, so you adjust the calling range to 60% or so.

Since SNGs have become more difficult lately (tighter play earlier on leading to more people surviving up to the bigger blinds), the biggest edge you're pushing is your play on the bubble. This program helps you have the biggest edge possible while making the least amount of mistakes. Since there often are 6-7 people left when the blinds get large (nearly the entire table having less than 10x BB), I often play around with raising/calling ranges there.

After you play around with the program enough you'll begin to have a deeper understanding of the concepts involved with bubble owning. If you're playing on a site that saves your tournament histories to your hard-drive (Stars, UltimateBet), do this. After you finish a couple sets of SNGs, stop playing for a moment. Open up SNG-PT (full version only) and load your tournament histories. You'll notice how many more +EV pushes you could have made, as well as any -EV pushes or calls you made. Eventually you'll make sense out of all this and be able to apply it without difficulty - it'll feel natural.

thanks for the description of your strategy...

i think i will also buy the program........ any thoughts about big MTT's and when it gets down to "all-in or fold time". i get the idea the program will at least give me a better feel for those positions (even though it isn't calculating strategy there)...... basically there you're probably more on a straight chip EV calculation. no need for ICM type thinking.

MTTs have drastically different prize pools. Instead of the money being split between 3 people, it can be split through many more. I've never tried changing an option in SNG-PT for different prize pools, but I'm pretty sure you can. I'd have to read the help file. If you can change that so SNG-PT factors in the prize pool equity correctly, it should apply there as well.

Just to brag... from Sep 28 to today (Oct 8) I cleared the PokerRoom bonus-

SNGs: 175
Net: +1739
ROI: +30%
ITM: 40%

These players are sooooo bad!! I ran hot near the end, but hit a 15 buyin downswing in the middle. Nothing terribly unusual for SNGs.