What do you feel the biggest difference is between cash and tournament style games? I have played a lot of single table and multi-table tournament games and have done extremely well. However, I have started playing $50 buy in NL cash games and have not done well at all. Would appreciate some feedback on what some of you feel the keys are in the cash game. I likely will not play anymore cash games until the tournament in July is done as I want to focus on playing as much tournament style til then.
The biggest differance is that everyone of those dollar chips actually cost you a dollar..think about it, you get 1500 or 1000 chips to start a tourney. i dont know about you but its not unusual to lose half of em before you start catching a few hands ....you sit at that ring game with 50.00 and lose 25.00 your tilting likea mutha, sweating and thinking about leaving when the blind comes back around...i play a lil 7 card ring sometimes but when i sit at a online ring game its totally a different game than the 2-4 tournys i play daily..its because 1 i cant stand losing and 2 its my own money chip for chip..playin a 1500.00 buy-in tourney sometimes...it'll feel just like that ring game!
I think NL cash games and tourneys are played pretty much the same way, except that you can leave a cash game. PPP is correct that each chip is money--and it certainly influences how I play the game!
I think there's a much greater difference between limit and NL than between tourneys and ring games.
I think there's a much greater difference between limit and NL than between tourneys and ring games.
I think the difference in poker depends on the other players pocket books as well...
I sit around and play when there is over $5000 on the table at a home cash game, but everyone playing works or is frequent to a casino and the money comes and goes as a lifestyle, making the atmosphere alot easier to lose $100-$300 a hand in and the play is much more aggressive and methodical.
I play a similar game with a bunch of friends from college and we don't see more than $200 on the table and losing $20 a hand is painful to most, making the game tight and a lot more ALL IN's (tilt factor goes through the roof a lot faster in this game).
As far as a ring game online, I just dont touch them anymore 1. the edge of reading people goes down 2. it just is boring to sit in front of the computer screen, so I don't have an input.
Similarly with tourneys, sitting in a loose atmosphere, makes for aggressive and loose playing where players play each other. Then there is the tight atmosphere where everyone is strictly there to make money, and the play is much tighter with a lot of all in's preflop and no real player reads happening.
Just my 2 cents
-bycgan
I sit around and play when there is over $5000 on the table at a home cash game, but everyone playing works or is frequent to a casino and the money comes and goes as a lifestyle, making the atmosphere alot easier to lose $100-$300 a hand in and the play is much more aggressive and methodical.
I play a similar game with a bunch of friends from college and we don't see more than $200 on the table and losing $20 a hand is painful to most, making the game tight and a lot more ALL IN's (tilt factor goes through the roof a lot faster in this game).
As far as a ring game online, I just dont touch them anymore 1. the edge of reading people goes down 2. it just is boring to sit in front of the computer screen, so I don't have an input.
Similarly with tourneys, sitting in a loose atmosphere, makes for aggressive and loose playing where players play each other. Then there is the tight atmosphere where everyone is strictly there to make money, and the play is much tighter with a lot of all in's preflop and no real player reads happening.
Just my 2 cents
-bycgan
I just recently started having a little success playing ring games. The key is to play very tight pre-flop and aggressive after the flop and avoid coin-flips at all costs. I've laid down some pretty big hands. All you need to do is win one monster hand an hour.
In tourneys, in order to have to success you have to play more aggressively, pick your spots and win a lot of coin tosses.
JMHO.
In tourneys, in order to have to success you have to play more aggressively, pick your spots and win a lot of coin tosses.
JMHO.
i've played a cash game once in my life and never will again.
I've played 1000's of tournaments in the last 18 months or so and like the whole setup much more then the cash game. I think tournament players are easier to move of tough hands then cash game players is, which allows me to play my agresive style more affectively.
One thing I stick to, once then blinds go to 100-200 or higher, I don't call at all unless im slowplaying aces in early position....its either raise or fold for me.
I've played 1000's of tournaments in the last 18 months or so and like the whole setup much more then the cash game. I think tournament players are easier to move of tough hands then cash game players is, which allows me to play my agresive style more affectively.
One thing I stick to, once then blinds go to 100-200 or higher, I don't call at all unless im slowplaying aces in early position....its either raise or fold for me.
