SwingSwingSwing's Poker Journey

Not much to report on the poker front.

The Bloggerments have not gone well the last two weeks. I finished 7th or so last week and yesterday finished second last. Last night was particularily frustrating as I had absolute junk most of the time and when I did get a hand, dremeber had a bigger one.

Oh well.

I only played 4 SNGs last week, cashing in one. One thing I should try and remember is to check if there are any visitors scheduled before entering a SNG. My first SNG of the week was interrupted when the Tesco delivery man rang the doorbell which I completely forgot about. By the time I'd dealt with that I was down to 2 blinds and was knocked out in 5th.

I'm not terribly happy with my SNG results at the $3.40 level. Towards the end of last week my ROI as -24% which is pretty poor. But I know my sample size is small. I've asked Acorn if he could look over some of my hand histories and give me some pointers or some reassurance that I'm not playing that badly.

Looking at my bonus situation, I've got a PokerStars reload bonus to clear before the end of July or something like that. As I only single table SNGs, I need to play something else to help with earning FPPs. Five Card Draw, despite being my best earning game dollar-wise isn't an option either. Having only two betting rounds, the pots are rarely large enough to generate FPPs. So I had a little experiment short stacking 50c/$1 NL. I finished a bit down over all, not having much in the way of big cards to play with but it certainly helps generate the FPPs so I think I'll try it out for real in June to clear the bonus and perhaps make silver star again.