<whew>... it's been a long time, hasn't it? Let me update you a little bit on how I've been doing.

Constantly building my bankroll, I've graduated to the partypoker $200 SNGs! It is intense up there, but so far I've been able to grit out about a 10% ROI playing two tables at a time, staggered by 20 minutes (so that one is in the boring rounds while the other is in the end game). Only 50 trials though, so who knows. I can make a consistant 16% or so two-tabling the $100s, so there's a chance that I've hit my most profitable game already, in which case I'll just have to move down in stakes and settle in there. I've been making over $30 an hour at the 100s, which is better than I have ever thought I would be able to do in the long run.

Sadly, concentrating on actual poker playing has taken me away from this forum, which I'm glad to note has thrived in my absense. You guys's posts, especially on the "new paradigm" topic and a few others, taught me some things I hadn't considered before.

My frustration at the higher-stakes SNGs is that I'm no longer making any money by avoiding 8th-10th place finishes -- I'm finishing in the bottom three 29% of the time at the $100 and $200 level combined. Ahg, not too many idiots around, even on peak hours. About half of my ROI comes from being better when it's 4-5 handed, and the other half comes from heads-up play. Assuming I make the top 2, I finish first almost 65% of the time. I would really like to find a way to cut down my 7th place finishes, where I finish 14% of the time, but I'm afraid that would cost me when it gets down to 5 in terms of having a lower chip stack, and it might actually hurt my ITM.

Anyway, I'm curious to know who else here has moved up to the $50 tables or higher on Party Poker, and what you think of the changes in competition. See you at the tables!

Hey Nash
Good to have you back......I just moved to the 10's so that rarefied air you play in is lost on me...GL

bobby -- belive it or not, I'm not making that much more at the 200s than I would be at the 10s.

My last 100 SNGs at the 10 level, I was three-tabling with a 45% ROI or so, and the SNGs took an average of about 40 minutes to complete, meaning 4.5 SNGs/hour on average. I was maxed out at about $20/hr there.

Now, I'm playing one SNG at a time at the 200 level, making roughly $30/hr. lol. 20 times the volatility with 1.5 times the payout. Oh well, hopefully I'm improving as I go. Heck, just learning to do what flafishy suggested on that hand I just posted might have made me $200 extra.