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Cash games v tourneys

patmac · 2007-05-18 10:08:46

In March/April I was doing very well in local live Tourneys (generally pub games) and online and achieved my best result in qualifying for the Irish Open with €1700 in expenses on top of the buy-in reg. My game I thought had improved so I thought I'd try cash games, some of the reasons are that there isn't a lot of choice…

18-05-2007 10:08am

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In March/April I was doing very well in local live Tourneys (generally pub games) and online and achieved my best result in qualifying for the Irish Open with €1700 in expenses on top of the buy-in reg. My game I thought had improved so I thought I'd try cash games, some of the reasons are that there isn't a lot of choice for live tourney games around Ballinasloe, that I-Poker Tourneys take forever, with the blind structure extremely slow taking 6 hours to play 100 runner Tourneys (anyone agree with this), and i want to improve my bank balance. I do ok at 0.25/0.50 (break even) but when I move to 0.50/1 I tend to lose either through bad beats but mainly bad play. I'll post some hands later at home if someone can tell me how to on PPP. My initial thoughts on cash games are that it's more like gambling in other words lets say I'm down $50 I'll put in another until I double up to get back the initial $50 and inevitably that doesn't happen and I can see a dangerous spiral coming on, whereas you pay your reg fee for a tourney and then thats it when your out you don't pay anymore outside of rebuys etc.
There's obviously a massive difference in cash games v tourneys, do you just wait for the nuts and make a killing as stealing blinds seems to be out? Is there a totally different strategy/mindset for cash games? I have a bank roll of $300 (was alot more until lately) what level should I be playing at? Should I go back to being a tourney donk and forgot about cash games altogether?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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#2 18-05-2007 10:32am

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055053966

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054920511

2 really good threads there to get you on your way

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#3 18-05-2007 10:49am

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patmac wrote:

I have a bank roll of $300 (was alot more until lately) what level should I be playing at?

If you are doing serious BR management you should probably play $0.10/0.25 as you only have 6 full buy ins for the $0.25/0.50 game. You definitely don't have enough for $0.50/1.

Don't really have much advise apart from you have to play much tighter in cash games (usually). As for the blinds, they aren't near as much of your stack so you don't need to defend them so rigorously, but don't let people walk over you either. Its like the early stages of a tournament all the time really.

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