Double or Nothing

Poker

I thought I’d try something different for a while as I was having very little success play multi table tournaments. There has been some talk on a 4kingpoker forum about double or nothing sit and go’s so I thought I’d give tem a try.

Now I’ve always steered clear of them because thinking about them logically you have to win around 60% of games just to break even. Anyway I tried a 10 seat game on Pokerstars and I was all over the place and went out the game in 10th, great start. I think the problem with the Stars game was the 10 minute blind levels on a very passive table the game just went on and on with 4 or 5 limpers per hand and all sorts of crap catching. So I started to get frustrated and pushed some marginal hands and bust out.

I then tried a 6 seat SnG on iPoker, these are turbo games and move along much quicker, also they are packed with very poor players. I had $10 on CDPoker which I couldn’t withdraw because it’s tied up with some stupid bonus that I never knew about so I thought what the hell I’ll have a bit of fun with it and see what I can do.So in 3 days playing $1 +.20 buy ins I have played 14 games I have a win rate of about 72% and I’m in profit by $4.00. Not a fortune, but I’m enjoying playing again, I’m a lot happier with the way I’m playing and I’ve been adapting to others play better. If I can keep the win rate up around 70% I’ll move over to Titan where I have a better bank roll and move up the stakes a bit and start to see if it’s possible to make money playing these double or nothing games or if they are just a bit of harmless fun to play when nothing else is working.