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hopeletron on Bankroll Building / rebuilding - PS Fifty50 SNGs

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:32:37 -0400

yeah I know what you mean by the boredom there...with like the MTT you got the thrill of going deep and thats a little more exciting then the robot style.

Because of the change in moneybookers rules I am prlly gonna stick to stars for now...which I obv dont mind...but there I am sure my money is ok...not that my bankroll is really huge at the moment...pretty much gonna be starting from the lower limits again....and keeping the bankroll thingie intact...that will be a must this time...

Turbulence on Bankroll Building / rebuilding - PS Fifty50 SNGs

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:51:28 -0400

Hi, funny enough just played a few of these this morning but havent played them for a while as was making better on the small MTTs on Lock. But I'm looking to rebuild on Stars. Had a few deep runs in MTTs but no big cashes so playing these on the side. Still got it! Played 10 cashed 7 for 29.1% ROI. Trouble is if I play too many of these I get bored and drift away from ideal strategy. But if you can play like a robot they are great steady BR builders.

hopeletron on Bankroll Building / rebuilding - PS Fifty50 SNGs

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:18:12 -0400

hey turb,

how is this going ???

or still on lock crushing MTT ? 😀

i am gonna be doing some roll builing on stars myself couple of months....gonna be looking at the turbo's...normal MTT's take just to much time as basic grind...

add me on skype : hopeletron

cya m8

m@ddm@n on Bankroll Building / rebuilding - PS Fifty50 SNGs

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 05:08:45 -0400

Thanks for putting me onto these! The're fun and I evan made a few buy in's after playing 12 or so last night. Still butchered lots of hands but great to learn. I had your post here in front of me to know how to play each level and it helped heaps! Definately best not to play too many tables when learning though. I dropped down from 4 to 2 and started cashing way more.

Thanks again.

m@ddm@n on Bankroll Building / rebuilding - PS Fifty50 SNGs

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:13:42 -0400

Thanks! I hope I don't get ur tables coz ud prob crush me while I figure out how to play em :). I'm on AUS time too lol

Turbulence on Bankroll Building / rebuilding - PS Fifty50 SNGs

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:54:32 -0400

I play the turbos. If you play a decent strategy and can be a little bit ballsy in a few spots in the later blind levels, then yes I think they can be a little less varience. Dont get me wrong you can still bust a bunch in a row without cashing, the secret is to cash big when you do. I'm in the money 55% of time but 28% overall in first or second with chip count, thats where the money is. Turbos take on ave 25-30mins.

Personally I only 4 table, it allows me to pick off good spots for reshoves if I think a player is opening light. Having a good table read in these is a defo edge. I have 6 tabled but ROI / ITM drops for me. If your looking to rack up FPPs then by all means 8+ tables but unless your super good i think ROI will be only just positive. A lot of the regs are exploitable as they a mass tabling and are wanting to cash. Their calling ranges are way to tight. Theres a lot of randoms / russains that want to steal constantly, this is also exploitable.

Hope this helps (and stay away from my tables lol)

m@ddm@n on Bankroll Building / rebuilding - PS Fifty50 SNGs

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:12:09 -0400

Ive been really short on time lately so might give these a go as well. Are you playing turbos and how many tables?
I've been 6 tabling the 3.50 full ring turbo sngs for the past few nights. Are these fifty50's less variance maybe?

Turbulence on Bankroll Building / rebuilding - PS Fifty50 SNGs

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:31:43 -0400

I've gotten a little tired of the varience and mega highs and lows of MTTs this month, especially as I had burned most of my roll which was looking ok. So, decided to see if there was a lower varience way to grind a roll back up. I used to play a fair amount of 6max SNGs on PS with reasonable success but found it very intense, especailly if you got down to 2 or 3 handed on multiple tables.

I've decided to turn my hand to Fifty50s on PS. For those not familiar, they are like DONs with a slight twist. They are 10max and 5 get paid, there twist is that the 5 are GTD there buyin back minus the rake, the other 50% of the pool is allocated by chip stack e.g. x% per 100chips. You need to have approx 200chips to break even on the game. Obviously the more chips you have the better the payout, this creates interesting late stage play for the aggressive player with a good eye for spots and NITS.

I've mostly been playing the $3.5 and $7 buyins, there are a lot of regs grinding these but few of them seem to be playing optimal strategy as they are playing 10+ tables. There are still a decent number of fish and bad regs.

I play a fairly basic strategy early on, just premiums aggressively with the occasional set mine or cheeky suited connector hand. Then open up quite a bit from 120 / 60 level onwards (depending on the number of players left / type of player), when the blinds get to 250 / 125 +, is where you make the money with a couple of well picked shoves you can significantly increase your payout. Here is the chart so far:-