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mike9526

why is it that im pretty good at tournaments but im absouletly horrible at cash games?

BOYNAMEDSUE · Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:52 am Post subject:

There are 2 reasons people who do well in tourneys/sngs often do poorly in ring games.

- They don't adjust the value of each hand. Short stacked in a tourney, JJ is a good hand to get in all your money. JJ isn't so hot in a ring game. People play tighter, and don't risk all their chips so easily. I was just talking to someone about this the other night after having my AA cracked, again, by a smaller pair. We were playing $.25/.50 NLHE on a new site, and he called all his chips (almost $20) pre-flop with JJ. When you raise someone with JJ and someone reraises you big, JJ is an easy fold. It's less correct to think someone reraising in a cash game has 2 over cards.

The blinds never go up so there isn't the urgency to accumulate chips like there is in a tourney/sng.

- They play ring games like they ARE tourneys/sngs. I see this a lot. Someone comes to the table, with 100 big blinds, loses a big hand(s), and has less than 20 big blinds. Then, like they would do in a tourney they take any reasonable hand and push all-in looking to gamble. Good cash games players win a lot of money, but they also save a lot of money by using their head. A penny saved is a penny earned.

A better play would be to leave, or rebuy back into the game, giving yourself enough chips to play sensibly. Ring games are not tourneys; you can always rebuy.

matt2411 · Royal Flush Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Posts: 559

tourney players feel pot committed too often also.

and they are the ones (like DC said above) who sit at cash games and let their stack dwindle... i never sit with less than 95 BBs, if i lose a hand and drop below that, i buy back in for the max as soon as i can.

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