I've gotten a little tired of the varience and mega highs and lows of MTTs this month, especially as I had burned most of my roll which was looking ok. So, decided to see if there was a lower varience way to grind a roll back up. I used to play a fair amount of 6max SNGs on PS with reasonable success but found it very intense, especailly if you got down to 2 or 3 handed on multiple tables.

I've decided to turn my hand to Fifty50s on PS. For those not familiar, they are like DONs with a slight twist. They are 10max and 5 get paid, there twist is that the 5 are GTD there buyin back minus the rake, the other 50% of the pool is allocated by chip stack e.g. x% per 100chips. You need to have approx 200chips to break even on the game. Obviously the more chips you have the better the payout, this creates interesting late stage play for the aggressive player with a good eye for spots and NITS.

I've mostly been playing the $3.5 and $7 buyins, there are a lot of regs grinding these but few of them seem to be playing optimal strategy as they are playing 10+ tables. There are still a decent number of fish and bad regs.

I play a fairly basic strategy early on, just premiums aggressively with the occasional set mine or cheeky suited connector hand. Then open up quite a bit from 120 / 60 level onwards (depending on the number of players left / type of player), when the blinds get to 250 / 125 +, is where you make the money with a couple of well picked shoves you can significantly increase your payout. Here is the chart so far:-