[Closed] Why SSS doesn't work

_Anonymous_ · 2007-09-12T16:03:16Z

Disclamer: The following text is based on personal experience, but the number of hands behind that experience isn't that great (around 10000) and I've only played on NL25. And no matter what, this text is not to be taken as the truth! It is just my opinion. The main reason why SSS doesn't work is that the time when you can play it profitably is almost nonexistent. It is said in this forum that the profitable hours are from 0:00-2:00 (GMT+1). That's 2 hours per night. To fit that into ones schedule is tricky, many might not be able to play at those times at all. But what prevents a person from playing it during the remaining 22 hours? Nothing really, but to play it profitably you need people who actually call with a trash hand, the strategy depends on it. But as people are suprisingly tight and suspicious about shortstack players, they just won't call with bad hands. And if you do get someone to call, then 90% of the times the caller has a strong hand. So, only really profitable hands are AA and KK which one can play (yes, there are QQ, JJ, AK, etc, but they aren't really profitable during the time period that we are discussing at the moment). But as AA and KK aren't dealt that often, it's really hard to make money. When you do receive either one of those hands, you are most likely not called. But if you are called and you win, then the money goes to compensate losses with other (good) hands and for the BB and SB taken from you. And in the end you haven't made any profit, only lost money or you break even, if you're lucky. Am I wrong? And if I am, then why?

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_Anonymous_

14.09.2007, 13:21 0

Actually, I didn't create this thread to talk about me. It was just to talk about SSS in general, how you feel, why I might be wrong about it, etc. I can handle my own BR and game, but thank's for your suggestions anyhow

_Anonymous_

14.09.2007, 14:35 0

Hi,

I have problems with SSS too.

I play $25 on partypoker and it doesn't make me any profit for a while.

I play at random hours.
I don't know how many hands i played but i have about 3300 partypoints (with the multipliers) now.

I don't have pokertracker yet, so i can't adjust my game to the opponents and i don't make steels.
I make about one mistake per hour when i play on 9 tables.
(Is that too much?)

Maybe with the stats and the steels i can give a little boost to my profit later but all together it seems to me that
-this strategy (SSS)
-on this limit ($25)
-on this site (PartyPoker)
-nowadays (the last couple of months)
does not work very well (at least for me).

Is there anybody who makes profit on the same limit with SSS?

Thanks,
kesgab

Mugge88

Joined: 29.10.2006

Posts: 510

14.09.2007, 14:42 0

I havn't played it that much, but atm I'm crushing my opponents with the SSS - on NL25 too. I make a few steals, but don't have PT either..

It's hard to say if 1 error/hour is too much - it highly depends on how bad your error is.. I don't make many mistakes myself luckily (at least not mistakes that I know of - looks through every hand I get in doubt of after the session). I'm 12-tabling, and made 1 misclick during my ~2hour session yesterday, which costed me 0,5$.

But to answer your question short: Yes!

Best regards and good luck with it,
Mugge