To do well in 8-game tournaments, you need to be good at all the flavors, and excellent at some. You need to be good at all of them so that you don't have weaknesses which can easily be exploited by your opponents. You need to be excellent at some to give you the edge over other players who are good at all the flavors, but not excellent at as many as you are.
To be good at all the flavors, you need to be able to examine the truth lying there in your hand histories. You can kid yourself all you want about how good you are; that's exactly why you need to look at the actual data to find out how full of shit you are, or might be. Numbers don't lie. You need to identify the flavors where you're weak, so you can try to get stronger at them.
One nice side effect of looking for your weaknesses is that you can't help but find your strengths also. Your strengths are what power you into the money; they're "what gets you there" :-) Here are the flavor aggregates from the second sit and go 8-game I entered last night:
550 1925 -1375 12 Triple Draw 2-7 Lowball Limit
-675 325 -1000 17 Hold'em Limit
1205 2630 -1425 18 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit
740 2310 -1570 29 Razz Limit
4996 5671 -675 18 7 Card Stud Limit
235 420 -185 5 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo Limit
509 529 -20 7 Hold'em No Limit
-60 0 -60 5 Omaha Pot Limit
It was a nice surprise to see how well I did in Omaha Hi/Lo Limit. I've tended in the past to lump Omaha Hi/Lo Limit and Omaha Pot Limit into the same mental category (namely, "poker flavors I hate, which I should never spend any money on"). I'm going to have to adjust my thinking.
style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings
SNG 8-Game 9000 1000 6 56 6 0
SNG 8-Game 9000 1000 6 111 1 35100
delta: $15,100
Sit and go 8-game $9,000 buy in balance: $86,000
balance: $8,949,673
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