Hmmm…Pokerstars sng stats May 2, 2008

So I’ve really been into breaking apart my play lately and I decided to continue on with my stats.  I’ve been looking at my Pokerstars stats hoping that I can find the right games for my play.  I struggle more on ps than I do ft and I wish I knew why.  I’ll start with 2-table sngs…

I used to play a lot of $1.50 + .25 2-table sngs (both nlhe and omaha).  Out of 189 games, I finished itm 57 times with 7 firsts, 21 seconds, 16 thirds, and 13 fourth place finishes.  I’m cashing in these about 30% of the time…not sure how I feel about that statistic.  I’m especially not estatic with only having 7 firsts out of 57 cashes…this tells me I really need to work on my heads up game or I’m a very unlucky person, I’d say the first scenario is the correct one.

Recently (okay maybe not so recent at this point lol) they added more $1 non turbo options.  They offer $1 18 player sngs and I’ve played in 12 of them.  I’ve finished itm in 6 of the twelve with 2 firsts, 1 second, 1 third, and 2 fourths.  Something of interest to note is that I’ve never finished in 13th-18th place in these.  It makes me wonder if for my style of game, the $1 sngs are more profitable for me than the $1.50 ones?   Not a great statistic with only 12 games under my belt but I’m cashing in these 50% of the time.

I’ve played in 22 of the 16 player sngs (this would be stud, horse, razz games) and have cashed in 7 of those with 1 first, 3 seconds, 1 third, and 2 fourths.  Not enough games played to get a realistic statistic but I’m currently cashing in these about 32% of the time.

I’ve played in 6 of the $5 18 player sngs with only 2 cashes, a 3rd and a 4th.  Not going to invest a lot of time in those!

In the $6 turbo 18 player sngs, I’ve played in 16 with 5 cashes, 2 first, 1 second, and 2 thirds.  Another game I don’t think I plan on investing more time in.  Even with the few cashes I’ve had I realize this is not where my strength lies.  I think the only reason I do okay at the smaller staked ones is the level of play may be lower.

Overall, I’ve played in 245 2-table sngs on ps with a total of 77 cashes so I cash about 31% of the time.  Still not sure how I feel about where my percentages lie on this site.  Hmmm…maybe I’ll move on to stts and see if they are any better???

$1 9 player stts…played in 10 total and only had 1 cash, a first place finish.  I had 3 fourths, 3 fifths, and 3 seventh place finishes.  EH?

$1 6 player stts (this is all pl 5-card draw and limit 2-7 triple draw)…played in 94 total with 42 cashes…19 firsts and 23 seconds.  Also interesting to note is I’ve not gone out first in these ever…I always went out 5th or higher.  Even though it isn’t enough games to get great stats on, I’m cashing about 45% of the time.  I used to play these all the time and for some reason stopped playing them. 

$2 6 player stts (this is turbo pl 5-card draw)…played in 17 total with 9 cashes..3 firsts, 2 seconds, and 4 thirds.

$5 6 player stts (pl-draw again)…only played in 6 of these with one measly 2nd place cash.  I found the higher limit of these harder to beat.  I do much better with the $1 and $2 ones.

$3 10 player stts (nlhe, omaha)…surprisingly enough, I’ve played less of these than I thought I had…78 total and I would have sworn it was more than that.  I cashed in 26 of those with 7 firsts, 9 seconds, and 10 thirds.  So I’m cashing in these about 33% of the time.  Again, I would have thought I’d cashed in more of them but I’d also thought I’d played in more of them lol.

$5 9 player stts (nlhe, omaha)…55 games played in total with 26 cashes…4 firsts, 7 seconds, and 15 thirds.  Cashing in these about 47% of the time…an awful lot of third place finishes?  Am I somehow just managing to squeak into the $$$?  Interesting to note, same as all the other non-turbo games…never went out first in one of these.

$3 turbo 8 player stts on ps…33 total with 11 cashes, 3 first, 4 second,  and 4 thirds.

$5/$10 stakes (probably mostly $6 ones)…18 player sng ps…22 total with 7 cashes, 2 first, 1 2nd, 3 3rds,  and 1 4th.

Overall, I just did stats for 805 sngs on ps and cashed in 158 of them (okay, this may be off as it’s late and I’m tired lol…I’ll need to check my figures tomorrow) so I’m only cashing on ps about 20% of the time in sngs.   Eh, this figure seems off…that’s what I get from going overboard on the stats lol.

Wow, lots of sng stats to digest and that isn’t all of them.  I just looked at the games I play most.

 

Online poker stats part 1… May 1, 2008

As I’ve written lately, I’ve been struggling with my online game.  I decided to spend some time going through my journals and the online stat sites trying to get a bigger picture of how I actually fair online.  I’ll start with some of my fulltilt sng stats…

Out of 85 $1 9 player stts (nlhe only), I cashed 52% of the time and never finished in 8th or 9th place.  I had 9 first place finishes, 18 second place finishes, and 17 third place finishes. 

Out of 175 $2 9 player stts (nlhe or omaha games), I cashed 45% of the time and never finished in 9th place.  I had 16 first place finishes, 22 second place finishes, and 41 third place finishes.  Also, the majority of the rest of my finishes in $2 stts were for fourth place (aka bubble girl)…33 times.

Out of 182 $5 to $10 9 player stts (this is mostly $6 nl turbo and omaha hi turbo games), I cashed 39% of the time.  I had 26 first place finishes, 21 second place finishes, and 24 third place finishes.  The majority of the rest of my finishes were again for fourth place finishes…28 in total.  (29 of these stts were for $5 stts and 4 of them were for $10 stts and the only account for 16 of the 71 cashes…the other 55 cashes were  from $6 turbos).  Breaking these down, it looks like I cash 35% of the time in $6 turbos, 50% of the time in $5 ones, and 25% of the time in $10 stts.

All in all for 9 player stts on fulltilt, I’ve played in 469 games and have cashed in 199 of them, roughly 42% of the time with 51 firsts, 65 seconds, and 83 thirds.  I also have 75 bubbles and 59 fifths…and the finishes go down from there.

In 8 person $1 stts (so horse, razz, stud games), I’ve played a total of 20 games with 13 cashes…4 firsts, 4 seconds, and 5 thirds.  Really not enough play to give a good percentage but with the few games I’ve played I’ve been cashing 65% of the time.  Not a realistic percentage though without a bunch more games under my belt.

In 8 person $2 stts (again…horse, razz, stud games), I’ve played a total of 17 games with 7 cashes…1 first, 2 seconds, and 4 thirds.  Again, not enough games to get a realistic percentage but cashing about 41% of the time.

In 8 person $5 stts (horse, razz, stud) I’ve only played 6 games in total with 3 cashes…1 first and 2 thirds for a very unrealistic 50% cash ratio.

Overall, I’ve played in 43 8 person stts with a total of 23 cashes so I am cashing about 53% of the time but still not enough games to get a realistic figure.

Well, that’s about all my brain can handle for the evening.  I’ve gotten a decent picture of how I am fairing in stts on fulltilt and I think I’m going to work on finding the right and best game for me. 

Monthly accounting… April 3, 2008

…let’s just say it wasn’t pretty.  I got too carried away with playing mtts which I never usually do and blew a bunch o money when I should have broken even for the month.  I’m a bit mad at myself.  Hubby and I looked over my books since August 07 and decided I should give up the mtts for this month (except railbird freerolls and points freerolls…freerolls in general) and concentrate on stts/sngs.   Speaking of railbirds…I guess a week makes a difference…I somehow went from 34th in the ranking to ending the month placed 137?  Not sure how that happens but I checked my ranking with theirs and it matches up…I’m wondering if they ended up lumping in the bodog tournaments after they said they weren’t going to…I don’t play in any of those and if those count it would deeply affect how I rank.

Looking over my journals I’m doing the best right now in $2 stts/sngs…and I’ve been playing mostly nlhe and omaha ones.  I’m going to stick with that on fulltilt as that’s where my bankroll management I follow dictates I should be right now.  On pokerstars my bankroll is a bit smaller and although I could play $2 ones on there, there really isn’t such a great offer of $2 anything on there except mtts which I just promised to avoid for the month lol.  I’m going to stick with the $1 multi-table sngs on there…I do pretty well at them and if I make the $, the cash would be bigger than at a single table tournament.

 The other thing….no more shooting money over to hubby if I can help it.  I’ve been watching my bankroll dwindle because I’ve been bankrolling both of us and he hasn’t been faring well.  I gave him one last lil bit o money tonight and told him he’s on his own for now.  Luckily he cashed in the two stts he played in (I’m having him play in the $2 stts on ft as it’s the same rake as the $1 ones…a much better deal).

I logged on to ft with my new plan tonight, excited to give it a go.  The first 6 stts/sngs I played in (3 nlhe and 3 omaha hi) I didn’t cash in (OMG, BLEH LOL) and then I won the next stt and came in 3rd in the last one.  Not a great night (none of them have been lately) but I only lost just over $5 which is much smaller than it’s been lately.  I don’t feel I played bad tonight and I was very diligent about taking notes and paying attention to the game but my hands just weren’t holding up.  I’m not upset about the loss for the night because of this.  I normally only get upset about losing when I know I’m losing because of my own bad play.

Tomorrow is a new day…I’m looking forward to sticking to my plan and having a much better month.