SNG Grinding

So i've begun my grinding too, having started off with full ring SNG's, both standard and double or nothing's. I'm starting out with a really small bankroll in the hopes of building it up, and so far it's going pretty well. Using some of the advice from 2+2ers and Stoxpoker i'm playing a really tight aggressive strategy, folding my way to victory!

So far today, i've only played 9 games but won 7 of them, so we'll see if i can maintain this win rate over a big sample size.

More updates to come soon!

Grinding the BR

Going to start putting in the hours soon, just need to set out a schedule to be able to keep to, something like 3-4 hours playing 1 hour reviewing seems fairly possible. I think 4 days per week of this and then at least 12 hours over the weekend should be a realistic goal and be enough to cancel out variance. Not sure how many tables to play because HU needs a lot of focus but I'll switch between 2 or 3 to see which gives the best hourly rate.

Not much to report so far, started out on NoiQ on Friday, haven't really been playing, just testing the software out and deciding if I want to stay there, the rakeback is nice and the games are soft, up 16 buy ins so far, but there isn't much action on the site, if I can get a deal on a more active site like cake I might move over there.

I've been playing a mixture of HU SNG and HU Cash, both games seem to play very similar on this site which is a bit weird but good news for me.

I'm not sure the best way to convert hands so I'll just post this one for now because I thought it was a really interesting opening hand. I don't like looking people up so light because generally I don't see people making these plays on a bluff, but this one just felt right;

Players(max 2):
villain (2,000.00 in seat 1)
Hero (2,000.00 in seat 2)

Dealer: Hero
Big Blind: villain (25.00)
Small Blind: Hero (15.00)

Hero was dealt: Qh - 5s

Hero Raise (60.00)
villain Call (50.00)

Flop 5d - 2h - 9h

villain Check
Hero Bet (112.00)
villain Call (112.00)

Turn 5d - 2h - 9h - Jh

villain Check
Hero Bet (195.00)
villain Call (195.00)

River 5d - 2h - 9h - Jh - Kc

villain Bet (764.00)
Hero Call (764.00)

villain shows: 4s - As (high card Ace)
Hero shows: Qh - 5s (a pair of Fives)

Hero wins: 2,292.00 (with a pair of Fives)

The structure of these is kind of weird too with 2,000 starting chips and 15/25 blinds with 8 minute increases, but I am adjusting. More updates to come plus tons more hand histories as soon as I find out a better, less spammy way to post them.

And so it begins....

This is a blog following the adventures of 2 guys in their 20's as they quest for fame and fortune throughout Europe, mainly attempting to use the medium of Poker to achieve their success. Both Tom and myself have been playing Poker now for about 4 years, but never very seriously.

We've recently moved in together in an apartment in Frankfurt, Germany, and we're planning on dedicating a lot of our free time (which is not a vast amount currently) to plugging the leaks and earning some big bucks from mainly online poker, but hopefully some live events as well.

Stay tuned for more information on how we do, we'll be starting at low stakes, Eddy (me) will be mainly playing 6 max cash games along with some donkaments, Tom will mostly be sticking to HU SNG's.

Peace.