I appreciate the advice Tibs.

And 80Proof, how could I not listen to StrongMad?

So... I've now returned to SNGs. I have to take a break from limit after last week's massive downswing.

Apparently BoDog and PokerStars are the only sites which give 100% of your tournament fees back when you clear the bonus. In other words, every $1 in tournament fee you pay on those sites clears $1 in bonus money. Now if only PokerStars had a reload bonus going!

The next best is Full Tilt Poker:

100% up to $600, 120 days (4 months) to clear
16.6 points = $1
$1 SNG fee = 7 points
3 SNGs = 21 points
21 points = $1.26
$600 / $1.26 = 476.19 sets of 3-tabling
476.19 / 4 = 119.05 sets of 3-tabling SNGs each month for 4 months

Man, that's rough! That's equivalent to nearly four sets of 3-tabling SNGs per day! And you only receive 42% of your tournament fees back there. It wouldn't be too bad if I played SNGs with $3 fee, I guess.

$3 SNG fee = 21 points
3 of those = 63 points
63 points / 16.6 = $3.795
$600 / $3.795 = 158.103 sets of 3-tabling
158.103 / 4 = 39.526 sets of 3-tabling SNGs each month for 4 months

That's much better! That's only 1.318 sets of 3-tabling SNGs per day! I usually do 2 sets of 3-tabling in a row, so that should be easy. That's roughly 5 days a week doing 2 sets of 3-tabling.

I'll start with BoDog until Poker Stars has a reload or I have a break from school. During the break, I'll go with FTP since I'll certainly have more free time.

Boy, my journal has been mathematical lately! And it's mostly just for my benefit. Check the SNG forum for another mathematical post of mine called "Push EV and ICM". Why I enjoy doing all these calculations, I do not know!

If I only invested this much time in my school work!

Okay, money withdrawn from UB and deposited into BoDog. $1000 for the $100 bonus.

I think BoDog's interface is butt-ugly, but the players suck at least. Since I'm just getting used to BoDog, I started off playing three $6 turbos instead of going straight to the $15s. My current results:

NOV 1
6.5 (1st) $30
6.5 (1st) $30
6.5 (3rd) $12
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$19.5 buy-in fees
$52.5 net profit

I wish PokerTracker worked with BoDog so I didn't have to keep track of all this by hand. Seems like PT will never support BoDog because it has that terrible HTML hand history. You can't even collect the hand histories into a text file! What a piece of shit!

I'm happy with my short-term results, still.

Although I'm originally from Rochester, I attend school at Binghamton University. I thought any place would be better than Rochester! Oh man was I wrong! Binghamton is awful. If it weren't for my friends here (and the hot women wearing little clothes), I'd be happy to graduate and get the fck outta here!

BTW, I do not have any clothes in my closet. All I have in there are boxes, plastic grocery bags, and laundry "accessories" (detergent, etc). Sounds like shrooms will be fun!

I wonder if I should be posting about illegal activities in here. Drinking is fine since it's legal and all that. But pot and shrooms? Hmmm... until told otherwise, I'll write about whatever I want.

MVP: I'm not terribly fond of playing with semi-decent players in SNGs (compliment!), but for old times sakes, we'll play a few together. I have you, Tibs, and Mecos AIM SNs on my buddy list, but you guys are never on! Mine is on practically 24/7 since I'm in college and it's pretty much the main mode of communication here. My SN is EscapePlan9

BoDog's players are so awful. I just want to give them all a big hug! I played a few more SNGs and I'm confident the $15+1s aren't anymore difficult.

NOV 1
6.5 (1st) $30
6.5 (1st) $30
6.5 (3rd) $12 (A8s v KK)
6.5 (5th) 2-outter
6.5 (8th) 8-players 50/100, 700 chips, 33 v 44
6.5 (1st) $30
$16 (1st) $75
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$55 buy-in+fee
$122 net profit
ROI = 221.82%

I decided to write notes about how I lost so I remember if it was bad play or bad luck. Like where it says "(5th) 2-outter", I lost to a 2-outter with one card to come when I had trips. You can read about that in the Bad Beats Forum.