cash game vs SnG

I've been consistantly beating the $5.00 SnG's & have run my bank roll up from $40.00 to $200.00 over the last few days. I tried 25c/50c max buy in $50.00 NL cash game the other day & quickly blew $50.00. I lost half my stack by making a horrible play ( I got QQ UTG & just called hoping someone would raise pre flop nobody did & flop came 3,9,10 & I lost half my stack when someone caught 2 pair ) Seems whenever I play cash games I
1. get horrid cards
2. get horrid flops when I have good cards
3. just play lousy poker
4. never win

It seems to me NL cash games wouldnt be too different from SnG's yet I NEVER EVER win at cash games. I would just play SnG's but I'm going to Vegas in May & want to play poker when I get there but my confidence is totally shot in cash games.

I've since moved up to $10.00 SnG's & have found the going much tougher, in the $5's I has in the money around 80% of the time since I started playing the $10's I've gone..

8th
10th
3rd
1st
8th
3rd

The 1st 2 10's I played I was kinda on tilt cause I was fresh off blowing $50.00 in the cash game but still I've found these games much harder to crack. I have been on a run off gettnig truley horrible cards & thats certainly not helping but jump from 5-10 it seems there are much less fish & more tight aggressive players ( like me ).

In my 1st 8th place finish I got cripled on my very 1st hand played, I folded literally the 1st 40 hands delt & I limped in with A,4 suited ( hearts ) the flop came Qh, 9h, 4c the 1st to act raised small 2 people called & I doubled his raise, 2 people called & 1 folded. The turn came 3d, both checked to me & I bet half the pot, 1 call & 1 fold. The river comes & its a 7c ( gah no flush ), its checked to me & I raise $400 ( the size of the pot & half my stack ) & he calls & flips over 9c, 10h. How could someone call all the way down to the river with middle pair!?! Did I play this horribly wrong or what?
I crapped out the next hand when someone raised 4xBB pre flop & I re raised all in with JJ & got called with AA.
The 2nd SnG I was so flustered with that bluff that got busted I ended up playing timid & just played horrible poker.
Even the ones I've been in the money I really had to struggle & come from behind to place, in the 5's I'm almost always the chip leader when it gets down to the last 4 or 5.

If you where ITM 80%of the time, then the 10 dollar minis shouldnt be a problem . The competition is pretty much on the same level, with a proper bankroll you should be able to beat those 10 $ minis

tuckerthecat said:

In my 1st 8th place finish I got cripled on my very 1st hand played, I folded literally the 1st 40 hands delt & I limped in with A,4 suited ( hearts ) the flop came Qh, 9h, 4c the 1st to act raised small 2 people called & I doubled his raise, 2 people called & 1 folded. The turn came 3d, both checked to me & I bet half the pot, 1 call & 1 fold. The river comes & its a 7c ( gah no flush ), its checked to me & I raise $400 ( the size of the pot & half my stack ) & he calls & flips over 9c, 10h. How could someone call all the way down to the river with middle pair!?! Did I play this horribly wrong or what?

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I can see you're trying to be aggressive in the hand...the flop raise wasn't bad i guess because it gave you a free card on the river as everyone checked to you on the turn
you probably shouldnt have bet the turn, and just seen if the river brought a heart
i mean what would they call you down with? he's gotta have a piece of the board in order to call...especially if they called on the flop AND turn...i don't see why you bet the river here if he was gonna call you that far, then he was definitely gonna call the river

as for you getting unlucky...i can see you're pretty pissed off about your losses as anyone would be. These are the times when you need to step back and take a 1/2 hour break from the poker and let yourself cool off and start thinking about other stuff. Then when you feel relaxed again go back to poker if you want.

i hope your luck turns around and you get more comfortable in the cash games