GTA Poker

I just got home, but I will post later what I saw that I disagree with in the OP...in the meantime can you post your sng stats so I can have a point of reference for your OP?

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That level 5 trap really paid off...ship him the cookies.

trigs

thanks gta. i am interested in your opinion.

not quite sure why my sng stats are relevant though. does my post mean something different if i'm a losing player? i'll post what i have access to. i've been playing sngs forever. it's how i started out in poker (playing the $5 ones on pokerroom.com back in the day), and how i built my original roll. may i see your sng stats as well for a frame of reference?

full tilt (according to sharkscope - not sure if i trust this though as it says i've only played 252 games which definitely sounds wrong to me):
average stake - $4
average profit - $0
average ROI - 14%
total profit - $95

on party (according to sharkscope):
average stake - $6
average profit - $3
average ROI - 13%
total profit - $181

my own stat keeping (this is only from around august of last year and is pretty much just from stars):
buy-ins: $767.99
won: $782.25
profit: $14.26
ROI: 1.86%
ITM: 47.5%

trigs

last night i was thinking more about playing a lot of hands early, and i thought it is also an advantage in turbos to have your opponents thinking that you're tighter than you really are in the later blind levels. the reason for this is that you will have to start pushing with weak hands just to steal blinds and stay afloat. with a tight image, my opponents will have to tighten their range a bit even when i open up my own range later. granted, if they're good players they'll notice my change eventually, but it'll still give me the chance to steal some bigger blinds when crunch time rolls around and make it that much more difficult for them to make proper all in calls against my pushes.

now if i was seen as loose aggressive from the start, my opponents' calling ranges are wider against me later on which only works against me in the long run in push/fold poker. the fact is, the majority of the time i'm hoping for a fold from them when i push in these situations and a tighter image helps me get that when it counts.

idk, maybe i'm just talking out of my ass. i can't deny that i've never started a table with guns blazing and did not have success with that style. i guess i just prefer the former approach.

darbday

image isn't important with these players and thats an important thing. and the better players who see image expect you to open up later, and they know early game isn't the same as late game. Also these players don't think.

but im not saying guns blazing ...i just mean any cheap pot with decent cards in the first couple levels, limped pots and min raised pots...

make sure you prefer whats optimal..not 'style' but im not saying im optimal

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I think I'll just get it in bad here and chalk it up to variance.