Aug 24

I really need a more level-headed approach to grinding up my small bankrolls. I tend to want to get in to cheap tournaments or low cash games and dominate, being amazed at some of the bad plays. The bad plays tend to encourage me to feel superior and increase my expectation of winning, every hand. Then I get too impatient and have too high expectations of winning. This leads to being unable to fold whenever I have something.

So ideally I need to multitable in order to maintain some balance and perspective. Then the problem arises that I don’t have enough bankroll on these sites to play too many tables. I don’t want the entire roll out there all at once.

In the meantime while I’m working through this I played a private tournament this weekend with an overlay on Stars. Only a $5 buyin but it works out ’cause I can use up some T$ and I cashed for some $60+. I’ve only played maybe a half dozen of these this year, definitely less than 10, and I’ve cashed now ~$30, $60 and $100, all with between $1 rebuy to $10 buyins, all done with T$. Without the money added I probably win slightly more than half of what I did win in each case, but even so that’s a pretty decent return on T$. If I collect 1 out of every 2 times I play a 210 FPP tournament so 420 FPPs = $10+$1 in T$, and I used up say $33-$44 T$ to play, that’s ~ $200 return on 1,260-1,680 FPPs or so. Even if my memory is faulty and I actually used 55 or 66 T$ it’s still a decent return.

But to cash requires 3-4 hours which is why I’m generally not an MTT player. Plus they only happen a couple of times a month, but my relative success leads me to think I should look at why I tend to do well in these.