Introduction from a sng player

[MrsFishnChips]

Hi FTR. I know about this from a good friend. I am in the beginning stages of trying to be a sng grinder - pretty new to it as well - and my friend said FTR is a great forum, very helpful if they feel you are serious. Well, I am serious.

I couldnt find an introduction thread so I will just do it all here.

I am a 40+woman, born and raised in Florida, but German parents and now live in Germany. I speak fairly fluent Germany but English is my main language. I have been playing poker for about a year and a half. Mainly MTT and SNG. I have used a coach a few times, and he is helping me work on my game. I have not played a lot maybe 75k+ hands. The last 3-400 SnGs have been 5.50 regular and 6.50 turbo. I will continue to play these, and am trying to get up to 6 tables minimum and want to play around 2-250 a week, building up volume as time and BR allow. I have made a plan, consisting of short, medium and long term goals. I have set this plan into action about 4 weeks ago.

I use HEM and SNGwiz, have a strict BR plan, and spend time around 75/25% play/study-review.

I started playing on a regular basis - 5 days/week, 8 hrs/day - about a month ago. have maybe 300+ games, so am not reaching my goals as set yet. I also work freelance maybe 25 hrs/wk and have a daughter in second grade so things can come between me and my plans, and they DO!!! lol.

I have played at poker stars lately, and due to the times I play - mainly 8am-2pm and 9 pm till maybe midnite CET (GMT+1) I encounter a lot of regs who are cleaning me out. I am just not good or experienced enough to keep enough of an edge against these players at these times. I have a membership at SS and i profile a lot of players I see regularly, and sometimes am on tables with a majority of mass multi tabling good +ROI players. So a friend suggested I try at Full Tilt, where I have never played. Since I dont have an account there, I want to get RB - am already a member of RTR - and does anyone have any advice for me before I sign up? RTR FTW? Or any other? FT account first then apply for RB, or sigh up directly through RTR or an other? (I hope I am not stepping on any FTR affiliate toes by asking this here!)

So I will be checking in, posting some hands, and any advice for a wanna be sng grinder is welcome.

Thanks for reading my first TLDR......

[fulksy]

Hi welcome to FTR, from personal experience you'll learn far more by posting here then anything else you do ( or at least I did). Good luck with all your goals.

I don't nessasarily think FT is that much fisher, but I personally prefer FT, as for RB easiest to sign up straight through RTR I believe.

[Nakamura]

and my friend said FTR is a great forum, very helpful if they feel you are serious. Well, I am serious.

Who is this mystery friend ... it seems like he is telling you fibs

Watch and learn how the regs play. Don't just use WIZ, use a proper replayer and see how often they are raising, from which positions, what cards they show down, which plays are awkward for you, what makes you uncomfortable. Pay attention to the stack sizes as well. Then try and incorporate these plays into your game.

A pen and paper can really be helpful here. Somewhere I have a couple of pages of calling and shoving ranges in 6-max hyper-turbo sats. I honestly sat for a few hours watching and recording these hands because I see no way to do it in HEM.

[taipan168]

Herzlich wilkommen! Hoffentlick koennen wir dich helfen. Entschuldiging, ich habe Deutsch vor 20 Jahren in der Schule gelernt und ich habe fast alle vergessen.

Post lots of hands/tourneys and participate in the discussions and I'm sure that your game will improve.

Regarding RB, I can't really comment on affiliates but if you PM spoonitnow (the mod of the BC forum) I'm sure that he will be able to help.