+ROI

After reading some postings from people making hundreds of dollars an hour playing poker, I thought I'd take it seriously for a while. I had a rough December and eventually starting pokertrackering my SNG results in the middle of that month. Since logging those results I had a breakeven (on 60 sngs) in late 2005, and was roughly breakeven for the first part of 2006. It's been a while since I've lost 2 games in a set (of 4) to 2 outers. (Yes, people who were dead to 1 or 2 cards sucking out against me was becoming a regular occurrence). I'm not sure if my recent results are a heater or just normal, but my ROI has soared this last week for 2006 from about breakeven to +17%. Last night I played 2 sets:

First set: 1 1st, 2 2nds
Second set: 1 2nd

And I was really close to finishing first in that 2nd set - at one poiint I had over 8k of the 10k in chips, but I couldn't win a race to finish it, even though I was a favorite in 2. But that's ok, since I had to suck out a little bit to get to 8k. Had an interesting hand where UTG raised and button pushed, and I was in the SB with a 6xBB stack (after posting) and AKo. I elected to fold, because I was afraid someone had a pair and the other had an A or K and was going to hurt my outs, making me 31%; that plus the off chance AA or KK is out. So I folded, but they had QQ and JJ and both an A and a K came. Grr. I don't totally regret the decision though. (And I did finish 2nd anyhow)

Anyhow, +17% roi is good. My account is now at an all-time high water mark, so my gains from this year have now obliterated last year's SNG losses. Some time this week I should be playing on Party Poker, and we'll see how soft the games are compared to Paradise.