SNG experiment update: 4x$10+1

First three results in: highest finish was fourth. Was in the chip lead with four players left, sitting in the big blind holding jacks, the small blind raised all-in (and had been very frequently stealing) and I called. He turned over A9o and caught an ace on the flop to take about half my stack. A few hands later, from the button I raised all-in with my now smallstack with K9s and was called by pocket rockets. No miracles and I'm out in fourth.

Cruising along pretty well on $10+1 number four. With six players left, I got heavily involved with a pot where I flopped an open-end straight draw + two overcards with KQo, semi-bluffed the turn and was called, called a big bet on the river and ended up dropping down to T500. Hand history posted as Comment #1. Three hands later went all-in with pocket tens against AQo and ended up with quad tens for the most decisive coinflip i'd ever seen... Very next hand, caught KQo and I re-raised all-in on an early position raiser who had doubled the blinds. He turned over pocket nines, and I couldn't win two races in a row and was out in sixth.

I had really forgotten how much different the single table SNGs are from the multi-table SNGs. The single table SNGS increase the blinds every ten hands played, whereas multi-table SNGs increase the blinds every ten minutes. This means the single table SNGs can easily become a major crapshoot at the end if the table moves too slow - and this is very often the case, it seems.