All in on sit and gos

I have a love / hate relationship with sit and gos. I love them when I'm in the sweetness, and hate them when I'm in a slump. Despite having played 869 of them, though, I don't think I've ever really given them the chance they deserve. I've decided to go all in on them for the rest of 2015. There are several reasons why. The foremost one is that they provide action in a way no other poker flavor can. No matter how much I've tried to tell myself that I don't mind the small sums I can win playing MTT NLHEs, I really do mind. It's like playing miniature poker, or watching myself playing poker through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. It's all very well to clean up in Lilliput, but at the end of the day, you end up with a rounding error of what you could have earned if you'd played in Brobdingnag.

I decided to swear off sit and gos "for good" when I realized that by upping the entry fees dramatically, PokerStars had made it dramatically more difficult to make a profit playing them. If there's anything I've learned in my 7+ years of playing online poker, it's that no "for good" decision lasts forever :-) I've also learned that I like wagering big sums, and like winning big sums even better.

buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

   900   100       9     9    783   189   340        0
  4500   500       9     5    235    54   152        0

style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings

SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    44     3        0
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6    83     2    94500
SNG   NLHE    45000  5000       6     7     5        0

delta: $-61,500
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $67,700
balance: $7,148,164