Difference between Tournament and Cash Game? |
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Posted Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:12 pm GMT by Leafs42084
OK, im not asking for the literal differences.... this is my question:
I have been playing poker pretty consistently for about a year and a half now. I am very good at tournaments and have won several at several different underground poker rooms. I dont think theres anything I need to change in terms of my tournament game, except to gain more experience.
However, whenever I try to play cash, which is not that frequent, I make some money on some occasions, but more often than not, I am losing my money
In terms of trying to be successful, how is tournament different from cash games?
for tournys, I usually play tight aggressive...
can anyone direct me into the right direction?
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Posted Sat Nov 18, 2006 3:40 am GMT by mortaleclipse
Leafs i know the fealing. I can usually tell at tables the guy who doesnt play alot of cash games by their style of play. Example of one guy whos first time it was in a limit cash games was asking preflop if he could raise anymore when it got to his turn to act. Ok that was big red flag for aces or kings. Or another guy who reraised a raised preflop then when he got reraised back, just double his bet he folded. Cash games come down to you can wait another battle if you feal like you are behind and its easier to make that choice. In tournies you sometimes have to go in if not alot of times if your short stacked with marginal hands so you dont get blinded out. Those are my 2 cents.
Posted Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:12 am GMT by BMG13
Cash- you play as if you had a bottomless BR (if you are playing with a proper BR)
Tourney- you play with your chip stack in mind
 Too broad of a question.
Posted Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:30 am GMT by gumbie
| Leafs42084 wrote: | | I am very good at tournaments |
Just sat here for 10 minutes thinking of something constructive.
Can't sorry.
Posted Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:16 pm GMT by xDiamond_CutteRx
If you want to know the real difference, really it's effective stack sizes... yes, there is an element of the freeze-out atmosphere, but if you're looking for what affects the quality of play, it is effective stack sizes. In tournaments, when most stacks are much shorter compared to the blinds when contrasted with cash games, many hands that mighty result in relatively small pots in a cash game end up as all-in confrontations in the short-stack tournament environment.
In general, I think you will learn to be a much better player by focusing more on cash games with deep stacks, but the decisions are so much more complex and the overlays for better players so much higher. You will notice that the best tournaments on the circuit usually have much deeper stacks, making it more like a cash game and thus elevating the quality of play.
My guess is that there are probably two reasons you are not doing as well at cash:
1. You are playing too tight in presence of large implied odds,
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2. You are likely overvaluing some hands that would do better with smaller stacks (ie AQ- AT, most top pair hands, etc.)
Those are the most common mistakes players make when they first switch from tournament to cash.
By all means, please post some hands so we can discuss them.
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