August is SNG Month
Posted by DannyJul 31
Over my trip to Washington I managed to have a day where I play 60 SNGs. Because this was basically all high stakes action, I made around 15,000 VPPs. With some rudimentry math, I calculated that these amount of VPPs equated to about $1500 in rakeback. Playing 364 days a year, thats over $500,000 in rakeback alone. Not too shabby considering I only played about 4 hours.
Max has been playing exclusively SNGs recently so we’ve been bouncing a lot of idea off each other. It’s been surprising how much I have learned that past 2 months regarding optimal play in them. There are a lot of major changes I made in my game that I think are going to pay big dividends. I don’t want to say what they are, but I will say the changes regard how playing with different stack sizes causes optimal play to vary radically.
I got back from DC today after packing up everything I left at my old house into my car and driving 16 hours over the past 2 days. For once in the past 3 months, I will be in the same city for more than a month at a time.
Time to put in a lot of volume.
4 comments
Comment by Lyric on August 14, 2010 at 4:58 am
How did you calculate $1,500 in VPP? FPPs are worth about 1.5 cents each and Supernovas get 3.5x so that would yield $787.50 in FPPs, which is still pretty damn good, but how did you come up with $1,500 in value?
Comment by Max on August 14, 2010 at 10:55 am
1) He’s supernova elite
2) Milestone bonuses, Pokerstars essentially gives you money now for getting to vpp milestones, like 100k, 200k, 1mill, etc. Theyre worth a lot.
Comment by Lyric on August 15, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Amazing. Assuming these are all $1k HU SNG they took $1,800 in rake and returned $1,500… is that correct?
Comment by Danny on August 16, 2010 at 2:55 am
They weren’t all 1ks, they were actually mostly 2ks. Not sure the actual calculations, I just took the total value of SNE (about 140,000 for me from starting the year as an SNE), and multiplied that by the quotient of the vpps I made divided by a million. After doing better math I suppose that is actually $2100. I paid a little less than $3000 in rake.