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Message: [QUOTE="zachvac, post: 729964, member: 26306"] I play the occaisional big MTT to take a shot (and try to pull a jaketrevvor) and every once in a while I decide to try some sngs just to mix it up and so I don't get bored. I've found sngs are profitable for me, but I just don't like them because of the swings. I usually play the $3.40s in sets of 4, thus either 2 cashes, at least one of which is not 3rd place or 1 1st place cash is enough to have a positive net (it's 10 players, 1st pays $15, 2nd pays $9, 3rd pays $6. Entry fee combination is $3.40*4 = $13.60). I'll have days where through like 3 sets of this I'll have moneyed in like 2 of them, and those being like a 2nd and a 3rd, and then I'll have the days (this actually happened) where I take 1st in 3 and 2nd in the other one. Swings happen in ring games but I just don't like the part about sngs where if you have one bad beat to a bigger stack you're out. I haven't played a sng in quite a while, but I imagine if I do I'll play something higher than the $3.40s, that was back when my bankroll was around $100 or so, and it's hopefully soon to be $1,000 (crossing my fingers). Basically I just enjoy ring games more and I think I'm better at them. Tournament play gets really complex for 2 reasons. First off it's complex in and of itself because each chip in your stack has a different value (so a raise of 200 is more than 4 times a raise of 50, ponder that one ;)), and secondly the other people in the tournament play it really strangely sometimes. You've got the people open shoving like 40 big blinds and there are just so many reasons they could be doing that in a sng. Do they just need to leave? Are they in panic mode and they need to accumulate chips? Are they the type that sees a good hand and pushes all-in because they can't play postflop? I realize some of those questions still hold in ring games, and that technically these extra decisions and peculiarities should make a skilled poker player easier to win, and I haven't played and tracked enough sngs to get a reasonable estimate of my winrate and don't really plan to start. I play almost all cash games live, am doing really well at the online ring games, so I'll stick with those for now. [/QUOTE]

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