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Message: [QUOTE="dmorris68, post: 1750997, member: 40397"] In poker, this is a *very* bad thing. You need to disabuse yourself of this notion immediately. Some simple points and opinions that I'll offer you:[LIST] [*]MTT vs STT vs Ring require completely different strategies and adjustments between them. Even within a game type, say a STT SNG, there are variations (DON, Satellite, Freezout, Bounty, etc.) that necessitate different optimal strategies. Most players don't play them equally well, particularly at the same time. I myself tend to focus on one almost exclusively for awhile, then as I either get burned out or hit a long patch of run bad, I'll switch to something different that requires I change gears and re-focus. For the last couple months I've played almost exclusively DONs, as they've been extremely profitable for me. If/when I hit a significant downswing or just can't find the volume I'm accustomed to, I'm sure I'll switch to something else, as I've always done. [*]Deepstack play requires greater skill than shortstacking, no matter the game type. Since cash play (at normal/deep tables) allows everyone to reload and maintain a deepstack, as opposed to tournaments where everyone except maybe the chipleader(s) are eventually forced to play short, logic holds that skill remains a much more dominant factor in cash games. [*]Luck will always play a greater factor in tournaments than in ring, particularly in the late stages where push/fold strategy comes to bear. That's not to say skill isn't important -- obv it is for the most successful players, but a losing tourney player can luck into one big score that will erase his losses and leave him profitable for a long time, while a cash player will take typically take much longer to recover from sustained losses unless he just goes on a super heater. There's just a lot more variance and BR volatility with tourney play. [*]On that note, MTT upswings, when they happen, tend to have a BR impact sometimes orders of magnitude greater than cash upswings, while cash dowswings tend to be orders of magnitude greater than tourneys -- not an absolute rule, it depends on factors like stakes and volume, but generally I think it holds for most of us smaller stakes recreational players. My single largest upswing came from a large MTT win followed closely by several higher-stakes SNG wins. Then I switched back to 50NL FR and after an initial surge I hit my biggest downswing ever where I dropped 30+BI's in a month. Over my poker lifetime, though, I'm still WAY up thanks to that big MTT boost, so I've essentially been a freerolling donk for years now. :) And my recent DON upswing has been more than twice that 30BI downswing (in $'s). [*]However the more skillful cash player, over the long term, will generally do better than the skillful tournament player due to the lopsided luck factor inherent with tournaments. A skillful player can run bad in tournaments for a very long time while lesser skilled luckboxes take down the huge cashes. OTOH skillful cash players seldom lose long term against weaker players. This is why you find amateur players more prevalent in tourneys and doing well compared to cash games. Many of the well known tournament pros like Hellmuth and Negreanu make for pretty lousy cash game players, but the better cash game players tend to not have as much trouble adjusting to tournaments.[/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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