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Event	Place	Buyin	Win	Net	Running Total	ROI
Carry Forward		$88	$162	$74	$74	84%
Tourney 5	5	$22	$0	-$22	$52	47%
Tourney 6	5	$22	$0	-$22	$30	23%

In #5, I busted out against a flopped full house. In #6, I came over the top of an early position raise with 99, figuring (very wrongly, in retrospect) that he might fold and that my chances weren't all that bad. He called with AQ, I lost the coin flip. That left me with under three times the big blind. My Q9 offsuit lost in the big blind in three-way action when it failed to improve.

For #5, I don't think I could have gotten away from the hand. Sometimes people play crap like 56 behind a large early position raise, flop a boat, and win big with it.

For #6, I probably could have let the nines go if I'd given myself a little more time to think about it. Raising obviously wasn't a horrible move -- I got all my chips in with a slight favorite -- but, there was plenty of danger of the other guy having a higher pocket pair. Plus, I had chips to last a little while longer. On top of that, I don't think there's any hand he would have raised with there that he wouldn't call my all-in with. With his range of possible hands, I'm racing at best and am a very big underdot at worst.

Memo to myself: play medium pocket pairs better.

Memo to myself: sit and go tournaments are about survival and not about doubling up.

The ROI column is "return on investment" and is how the hardcore sit and go players measure success. According to the accumulated experience of the forum participants at Two Plus Two, a good player will have an overall ROI of around 20% or so after a few hundred sit and go tourneys at the $20+2 stake level.