With quite some delay, now comes a thorough update on this crazy challenge!
Not gonna lie, the last 3 to 4 weeks of grinding were rough. I guess that's what happens, when you start out playing well, running well and 10x your roll within less than 1 month of playing and are than faced with a 180° turn of variance.
After these nice first weeks, some things went south from that point on.
- I played soley the 6-max $1 SNGs on GG, starting from when our BR hit $60 and above. Just recently I created an account with 888, too and play some blasts and freerolls there, too.
- At around 70 hours into the challange (pretty much exactly one month after the start), I suddenly started to experience session after session with the dreaded downswing variance.
- In these 6-max SNGs the prize pool distribution depends on the multiplier you get. For example, the lowest 4x multiplier pays $1.50 for 2nd and $2.50 for 1st. However the 6x multiplier has a heavier weighing on the top prize: $2.00 for 2nd and $4.00 for first. - If you experience slightly negative variance in these spots where you play HU and finish 2nd instead of first, because your 60:40 or 70: 30s don't hold up, it can very quickly turn your session from quite profitable to terribly unprofitable.
- This, in combination with bubbling way too much happend to me for a streak of 30+ or so sessions with only a few winning ones in between.
- It's important to note: My game style is constantly changing. I am not a GTO bot, a lot of my play is (fish)-player dependant. If I see a 75% VPIP player limping or minraising from UTG and I look down at A9s in SB 12 bbs deep, I would 100% rejam. If I see a reg open this is either a flat or snapfold.
- On top of that I have a few leeks, sometimes make mistakes and even misclicks or misreads (one of the crazies happened in a 50x SNG, sigh).
- However I noticed I was too passive without made hands and relied a little too much on made hands against unpredictable calling-station REC players. So I also changed towards more two-barral lines (if deep enough), more agressive check-raising etc in certain spots. This
- I defnitely had a bunch of grinding sessions where I played suboptimal in addition to not running well. It's hard to analyse, but I recently imported my hands and SNG results into PT4 and will try to check for leaks etc.
That said, we are now around 110h hours into the challange and still below our bankroll 40 hours before. It's furstrating at times but I really try my best to keep my spirits up. The main problem is, that I am not sure anymore to actually beat the game. This has the most negative effect on my game.
And mental game used to be (and still kinda is) my forte...
Also I strongly doubt my game selection. I am coming from an MTT background and maybe should try and dabble more in $1 MTTs instead of only focusing on these crazy high-variance and high-rake SNGs on GG. Any thoughts?
If there is anyone with experience in Spin and Gold analysis, please hit me up and I am happy to post some graphs and stats (PT4) to talk about it.
I still keep documenting every hand I play, which is quite some work and tiresome at times, but please go ahead and check my results on Youtube. You'll find a ton of footage and definetely some interesting spots to discuss:
The Grind Chronicles on YoutTube
Here is a good example of one of my grind video: GG SNGs & first 888 grind. Make sure to check the timestamps to skip to interesting spots.
Please note, my latest videos are less motivated, not much sleep recently, lots to do besides poker and ofc my generally positive mindset is affected by our recent badruns. It'll be better with more interesting comment during the videos soon again.
Thanks for reading and any comments. 
Keep krushing and GL at the tables!
Good luck with the challenge !
