SNG Wiz
News first.. I busted out of the main event like an absolute donk by misplaying my AK. I should have let it go figuring my opponent lucked out and tripped up with his low pair. I must have felt disgusted letting the pot go that pushed me to make the bad call. Anyway, one actual mistake in a while that I could kick myself about endlessly and learn from.
Focusing on SNGs these days.. as that’s the bread and butter of every poker grinder. I just downloaded and evaluated this SNG Wizard tool. Thinking of investing $100 to buy it. Should be a worthwhile investment IMO.
Used the tool to review a couple of my SNGs today. One that I lost and another that I came in 1st at. Interestingly the one that I lost I hadn’t had any mistakes.. basically the hands that I had to push with I did and otherwise folded or saw the cheap occasional flop with the rest. But the one that I DID take down, I had made two key mistakes in. I did have this feeling in the back of my mind that the plays I’d made might not have been exactly +EV.. but it’s nice to have the tool confirm this and ‘explain’ from a purely mathematical / equity point of view. Here’s one interesting situation where based on the program analysis, I should have folded my 55 in SB but chose to limp in instead. I’m not sure if simply calling with my stack was that big of a mistake as the difference between FOLD and PUSH EV is only 0.36%. Maybe my call was ‘OK’.. in the sense that I felt the raiser had to have had AT+ hand and not necessarily an OP (55+), therefore giving me an option of seeing and acting on all low flop, for example. The logic was, the flop comes all low, I shove and check/fold otherwise.
