Crushing sngs

Profit: $30

I've continued to plug away at the Full Tilt sit and gos and my fortunes have begun to turn around, which is nice.

I've played maybe 15-20 6 table sngs multi-tabling three at a time. They've only been $2 ones (just so I can get my eye in on the format again) but I've been smashing them up so far. I've cashed in probably about 60-70%, mostly seconds but some wins as well.

I have to say the formats at Full Tilt are fantastic. The blinds go up every 6 minutes so you probably get in 8-10 hands per rounds but there are so many levels that you can play a lot of poker. Blinds seem to be

15-30
25-50
30-60
40-80
50-100
60-120
80-160

So you're getting 7 levels which your 1,500 chip starting stack can comfortably cope with. I can play a tight/aggressive style but still make big laydowns and know that I still have a shot. In one game today I flopped quads, didn't get any money. Then I flopped trips and checked twice. Sadly the other guy flopped trips too with a better kicker so when we started betting on the river I was crippled down to about 400 chips. But with some calculated all-ins and steals I was able to nurse a short stack for 40 minutes and come second - it was really satisfying.

It can be slightly frustrating when all-ins and crazy plays end up with two massive stacks compared to your starting stack when it gets three handed, but again the blinds levels usually ensure that you can get your stack in with the best of it. Occasionally heads up sees two players with 4,500 chips playing each other with the blinds at 40/80 (sometimes less) but it does mean I can get some good heads-up experience in.

So, yeah, I've really enjoyed the last couple of days. The cards have been fair to good, I've been playing well and I've been winning money. Not much it must be said because the stakes are so small that $30 profit is actually a comparatively huge amount. If I keep playing well and cashing I'll step up to $5 sngs. But for now I'm just enjoying not playing cash rooms and I don't want to heap pressure onto myself to try and regain the big losses of earlier in the month.