New DON Strategy

I am going to try a step buy-in strategy for my DON’s and see how it works out after a week. I currently am playing the $5.20 DON’s and am getting close to wanting to move up to the $10.40 DON’s, but I only have 20 buy-ins for those. I am expecting them to be a little harder than the $5.20’s and have more variance so I was wanting to have more buy-ins for that level. I am going to try a “3 in a row” win streak to trigger my next jump in buy-in and see how that works out. A series of 3 wins in a row will give me a profit of $14.40 for the $5.20 DON’s. I can then buy into a $10.40 DON and if I lose I will still have made $4.00 profit and will drop back down to the $5.20 and try again. If I win the $10.40 I will keep buying in to try and get 3 in a row so I can take a pop at a $20.80 maybe. Hopefully doing this will take advantage of when I am running good and increase my profits. On a side note on the DON’s…I hope that these don’t go away. I have seen several posts on the forum’s where people hate these and think they are horrible for poker. Maybe they are bad for poker, but they sure have been good for my bankroll!! I do have to admit that a Double or Nothing tournament is probably the only time you can cash without ever getting a hand. I have had several when I was completely card dead and only managed a few steals when the blinds went up and managed to survive. Even a regular SNG you are going to have to catch some cards or you won’t cash. DON’s have vastly improved my MTT tourney end game also. I have seen those results in 2 final tables in MTT tournaments the past week. Final tables are something I just haven’t seen before in MTT. I have always been able to run deep and sometimes even had monster stacks but I always seemed to spew them towards the end and fall short of the final table where all the money is. DON’s have helped me become much more patient and wait for good hands or good spots to steal. I have also seen an improvement in my regular SNG’s too. I haven’t played very many, but my results have been much better in them too. I am not sure if I am going to have a chance to meet my BR goal this month. I do the majority of my table time on Friday-Sunday but I have to work the next two weekends at my job so that’s going to really limit my hours online. Kind of a bummer but oh well..this is just a hobby.