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Tournament Player or Cash Game Player?

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  • 17-11-2006 7:55pm
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    tylerdurden94
    Registered Users Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭


    Just registered and this is my first post! I have been reading sum of the posts 4 awhile now and finally decided 2 join up.

    Just wondering what people feel they r better at are u:

    (a) Better at Tournaments than Cash

    or

    (b) Better at Cash Game's than Tournament

    As 4 myself i dont have the biggest bankroll so cant really be playing in sum of the heavy duty cash games that i c but i do play if i have a few spare euro and sum time 2 kill, so in that respect i do prefer 2 play tournaments.

    Just interested to c what people have 2 say on this!


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    califano
    Registered Users Posts: 5,440 ✭✭✭califano


    Tyler
    The first rule of boards is - you do not talk text talk.
    The second rule of boards is - you DO NOT talk text talk.
    Third rule of boards!...

    Ive always played tournaments stt's&mtt's up until recently so its too early to say i guess but probably better at tournaments.


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    Goodluck2me
    Registered Users Posts: 5,398 ✭✭✭Goodluck2me


    welcome to boards tyler. ill reiterate what rounders said but youll get used to that after a while.
    i consider myself a better tournament player as that was how i learned the game and have many more hours experience playign like that, i like to give the cash games a go but i am not as yet committed enought at it to give it a proper go. im a dabbler....


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    Mr.Plough
    Registered Users Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭Mr.Plough


    havnt got a deep enough bankroll to play 1/2 yet, but so far ive built up my bankroll in online cash games.

    i enjoy tournaments more than cash games but make my money in cash games.

    so id suppose its 50-50


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    Mr.Plough
    Registered Users Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭Mr.Plough


    i said "cash games" 3 times in the above post. so subconsciously i will say....






    cash games..


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    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Welcome to boards Tyler, check out the Newbies/FAQ forum.

    I'm only a low/micro limit player working up a small BR, play the odd tourny and have had some good results but up until recently I was mainly playing cash games. Started playing STTs again and am seeing good results but overall my cash game is a lot stronger I think. Have to get back into playing tournys though.


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    eggie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 880 ✭✭✭eggie


    online - tournaments

    live - cash


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    tylerdurden94
    Registered Users Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭tylerdurden94


    My apolgises folks i will try and knock that on the head!


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    tylerdurden94
    Registered Users Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭tylerdurden94


    goodluck2me wrote:
    welcome to boards tyler. ill reiterate what rounders said but youll get used to that after a while.
    i consider myself a better tournament player as that was how i learned the game and have many more hours experience playign like that, i like to give the cash games a go but i am not as yet committed enought at it to give it a proper go. im a dabbler....

    That is nearly the same from me that is where most of my playing is from, the first time i played a live cash game i was lost didnt have a clue what was going on there i started to realise it was a totally different way of playing compared to tournament play.


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    ocallagh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,140 ✭✭✭ocallagh


    up until about 6 months ago I was a lot better at tournaments than cash, but now I'm just crap at both!


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    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 36,219 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


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    tylerdurden94
    Registered Users Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭tylerdurden94


    I have seen you play both luckylloyd thought your cah game was pretty good. Solid aggressive the night i seen you, you had a good stack in front of you.


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    LuckyLloyd
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    Ste05
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭Ste05


    The deeper the stacks the happier I am. Hence I prefer cash games as opposed to the usual Crapshoot tournament.


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    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    ocallagh wrote:
    up until about 6 months ago I was a lot better at tournaments than cash, but now I'm just crap at both!

    X 2 :o

    I was an ok tourney player (my opinion) until I learned how to play...badly!
    I don't play cash games except for a dismal weekend on PokerStars when I reloaded €100 four times. What was even more worrying is I was up €300 at one stage.
    Too much book learning is bad for your game.

    The good part is I still turn up to play. :)


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    empirix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭empirix


    Cash game player, only playing around 9 months but doing really well, at the moment i am in Belgium, no scene at all here, last week at Holland casino a big tournie was on(which i didn't play) and the lowest cash game was 5/10 - highest i ever played, my game was as tight as an anorexic prostitute, got lucky in a few hands and cutting a long story short i made about 900(expenses paid - a lot), was there for 6 days, so was really happy, i have taken hits but i have the patience to dig my heels in and wait when playing live(most definitely not online though). I go away most weekends because where i am, has no casinos, tomorrow i head to Brussels for the evening/night, theres bugger all casinos where i am living. So its PPP for me tonight

    rant over


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    phantom_lord
    Registered Users Posts: 10,894 ✭✭✭✭phantom_lord


    I used to be a purely tournament player, now I'm a pure cash player.


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    El Stuntman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭El Stuntman


    I prefer tournaments (live) by far but my nerdy spreadsheet thingy shows that I am up the amazing sum of E170 for the year in tournies after a craptastic sequence in Oct

    Cash is nowhere near as much of a buzz but I do make de money there

    here's another money song:

    Money, get away
    Get a good job with more pay and your O.K.
    Money it's a gas
    Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
    New car, caviar, four star daydream,
    Think I'll buy me a football team
    Money get back
    I'm all right Jack keep your hands off my stack.
    Money it's a hit
    Don't give me that do goody good bullsh*t
    I'm in the hi-fidelity first class traveling set
    And I think I need a Lear jet
    Money it's a crime
    Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie
    Money so they say
    Is the root of all evil today
    But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're
    giving none away

    edit to LOL that I included Phantom Lord's blog post title in those lyrics!!


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    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,850 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    I much prefer tournies live, but only when there is a bit of play. Rebuys can be terrible but if there ar enough rebuys it turns into a decent game after the break. Online I don't play that much but when I do it is Omaha cash 95% of the time. Live cash is Omaha 99% of the time. I don't like Hold'Em cash games too much for some reason.

    I heard a great line from one of the Full Tilt guys tonight in the SE. It went something like this.....

    "Wow, a 10 way limped cash hand, you don't see that often". I told him that I assumed he had never played 1/2PL cash games here before.......


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    Ste05
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭Ste05


    5starpool wrote:
    "Wow, a 10 way limped cash hand, you don't see that often". I told him that I assumed he had never played 1/2PL cash games here before.......
    LOL, class, I wonder should we be proud or embarassed... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:


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    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,850 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    That still wasn't the best line I heard all day though. This one was just class for different reasons. Erik Seidel and Alan Smufit were having a conversation and at one point Erik asked him 'Do you still have a place over here?', to which Alan replied (pointing to the crest on his tshirt) 'Yes, the K-Club'.

    I though it was class, and the way he said it wasn't in a kind of 'I'm rich' way, just in a very matter-of-fact way. I nearly LOLed.


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    dacman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 444 ✭✭dacman


    Starting off mate id recomend you try and build a bank roll playing stts coupled with a few selected mtts. In my opion cash games require alot more disclipine and skill and more importantly bank roll managment( cause you will go broke if you dont manage ure bank roll in cash). In cash you have to play alot flops makes calls with medium hands cause alot of bluffing goes on especially on tribeca and try and have the nuts when ure playing for all your chips.


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    AKQJ10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭AKQJ10


    El Stuntman wrote:
    I prefer tournaments (live) by far but my nerdy spreadsheet thingy shows that I am up the amazing sum of E170 for the year in tournies after a craptastic sequence in Oct

    is there anyway u cud send the spreadsheet thingy, i really need to start keeping track.


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    #24
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    6 seater stt's! It's the only way to fly....


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    Hitman Actual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭Hitman Actual


    Ste05 wrote:
    LOL, class, I wonder should we be proud or embarassed... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

    A little from column A, a little from column B...


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    ditpoker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,860 ✭✭✭ditpoker


    LuckyLloyd wrote:
    I would consider myself to be fairly solid at both


    .... NO... WAY... !?!?! :p


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