More HU SNG's

I have so many things on my mind to do with HU. Firstly, I've started the HU SNG's. I was mucking about on pokerstars and ran up my micro account, which was $3 after cashing out my account the other day, to $96 with HU SNG's. I have very little HU experience, but the money seemed easy, and I even played a $30 HU SNG, which seemed quite easy to win. So I went back to my regular OnGame site to try to grind the $20+ HU SNG's with similar success. I ended up playing a mix of $20/$30/$50, and only once thought someone was playing well PF (which didn't last long, as he tilted off his stack), and in the $50 games I played someone 4 times who was playing fairly solid post flop, with exception of a few glitches, before going crazy (tilt) in the last one. Overall, I ended up a solid $200+ there too, which including the PS fun meant around a $260 profit without thinking about bonuses coming from OnGame for that.

First and foremost, the reason I have very quickly fallen for this game is that opponents are playing a lot of hands with you, so you pick up on their habits very quickly, as opposed to grinding 6 max for a night and still not knowing too much about 2 of the tighter opponents play. Secondly, their habits are crap. Calling a lot OOP and limping a lot IP is so easy to play against. I get small pots OOP, big pots IP, or the occasional big pot OOP when I have an excellent starting hand. Easy money. Third, tilt. They get it, I haven't been...yet. I can lose a big pot as favourite, and still win the SNG, whereas a lot of people lose one big pot and just give up, shipping it with 42o the next hand. And compared with HU cash games, there is an end point pretty quickly, so you are never grinding it out for too long, or donating stack after stack to a better player. So you grind out what edges you have, then you are done with it, next game, rather than 2 hours against one good player just to be down rake, or up half a buyin at the end.

So I've done some ROI calculations, and it's pretty attractive proposition to grind these out for a bit. I'll probably play some on Full Tilt, just to see how good those games are, and if things go well there, I may stay for a bit. What's attractive about these games is you can be grinding out your 10% ROI on the $50 level with as little as $1.5K bankroll. That's around $30 per hour single tabling, maybe $45 two tabling, with a pretty small bankroll requirement. I'll grind out the $20-$30 games for a bit on Full Tilt and see if they are as soft as OnGame in general, and then maybe in the next week or two assess how well it's gone overall, before decided what to do.