Frustration...

[JLaw]

Just a few comments.

I've had good success using HoH's M to drive my push decisions on sites with slower SNG structures. It was also natural to me since I'd played many more MTTs than SNGs.

I've recently been playing a site with a faster blind structure for SNGs and for the first 100 SNGs I found myself placing 5th - 7th far too often. After some review my conclusion was that I was in push/fold mode too early. Switching to using 10BBs as my threshold for push/fold has considerably helped my results in the faster structure SNGs.

So, the first thing I'd start thinking about is whether or not you're pushing too early. Yes, you might have an M of 10 with the blinds hitting you on the next game, but you're still not ready to start pushing marginals into a large field. Your M will drop to 9 (meaning you'll still have > 10 BBs), so be a little more patient.

The second piece of advice I can give is start looking at the hands you're pushing relative to your position, the tight/looseness of the players behind and the stack sizes of the players behind. I was pushing too many A-rag and K-9 kinds of hands from bad positions. They're great for an open-push on the button, but lousy UTG with 6 players and a 10BB stack with an average mix of opponents and stack sizes behind you.

Look for opportunities to punish limpers. Don't pull it too early, but once the blinds + the limps are significant relative to your stack, punish the limpers a few times. IMHO this adds to your EV in several ways:

1. More chips in your stack the first few times. Never a bad thing.

2. More cakewalks when you're the BB.

3. More stealing opportunities for you

4. Opponents are easier to read after you pull this a few times. A limp is a strong hand to trap you, a fold is junk, and they raise with normal stealing hands.

5. By forcing your opponents to play raised pots (even when you fold pre-flop) you accelerate the rate at which players bust out.

Resteals have similar benefits.

Comments/thoughts?

Jeff