Sitngos

[Triple B333]

Heh everybody. Just like to tell everyone about some observations I made last night. I began the step process that Tbone has outlined in the PPZ.com website. I started out in a beginner table cuz I'm just beginning in this poker thing (lol). I place second in that tourney. I then move to the next size up at the 5.50. I get hammered by donkey calls with minumal hands. Again I drop back to the beginner. A win is produced finally and i am ready to move up again. Then a donkey nails me again with what quite possibly be the ugliest hand ever. So now I am at a crossroads. Keep losing or drop back. There is nothing that makes me more determined to win than getting burnt by a donkey. So decision making time right. Well I respect Tbone as a player so I drop back one more time. Grab up on another second and then make a slight jump. I decided to try to play up a little higher to avoid the donkey moves. This time I played a 10 sitngo. Still plagued by minimal hands and stupid moves. You can imagine what my aggression is like right about now lol. Call it a mad bet, call it tilt call it what you want, but I strayed from Tbones theory. Instead of dropping back I said to hell with it. I proceeded to seat myself at a 20 sitngo. Jumping to the next stage without a win, I nail the 20 table for a cool c-note. Its like night and day difference. The donkey calls are gone. The annoying double pot raise is gone. The flush hits with j 3 are gone. People played me like it was league night. An awesome table to play and a lot of quality players. If a person was short on chips and went all in they had ace and a face card at worst. The tables mood was easy going. No nasty butt mouths. In a situation where someone was taken out, the hands were very good and the reasons for the moves each player performed made sense. I guess what I am trying to say is this: The amount of money you play for is a direct reflection of how well the game will be played and the level of play by your opponents. No rookie in his right mind is gonna jump on a 50 sitngo with his first and only buyin. It seems like the 10 and the 20 are miles apart from one another. The quality of play jumps ten fold when you add ten to it. If any one would like any advise on playing sitngos I am your man. The sitngos are my little world. The multi table thing is coming on strong for me but the sitngo is my money maker. I have won over 500 dollars in just the few short months Randy and I have been working together. The majority of that is all beginner table money. Just recently I have been playing up and I t has been working great. But of course Randy had to get me into the multi table scene. So now the beginners fund my tourney life. Tbones article is a great piece of advise to take. On a side note it is a very wise move to use the beginners to make your multi table money. That way you are playing for free in the tourneys you have less chance of winning. Another bit of advise to take is this. Start on bodog with 20 dollars and play the beginners till you get to 200 dollars. It will take a while so be patient. Once you have reached that goal, then jump in stakes till you get to 400 dollars. Keep this progression till you reach the point that your skill level has been matched by a better portion of your opponents. Then stop and stay right there. Once youve built your confidence against good quality players and can win against them you are set. From there I would then begin to skim from the top of your account. Pick a good round number and stay with that number. If you go under that number, drop back to a skill level you can dominate and make that money back. Never stay up in stakes when you begin to lose. Do as Tbone suggested and only stay up in stakes if a third or better is achieved. Move up only when you can dominate. I am no pro but I can honestly say that I can play the beginner tables with not a care in the world and win. I can give away two thirds of my stack and still come back to win it. My confidence level in a beginner is incredible. But a 20 dollar table is a little different. I dont use the same strategy on these. My confidence level is building but not like a beginner. I am more prone to folding in the 20s with minimal hands than getting aggressive and going after the pot. Any way I hope that this has helped any of you that might have a sitngo fetish like me. Any questions feel free to ask away. Burke