Undeniable explanation: Cash games are superior to Tournaments

DougPkrMonsta said:

Hmm, ok! Well many people play sit-n-go tournaments professionally as well...

It sounds like you have very limited experience with tournaments if you think I was referring to a SNG.

Try some MTT's, there's no feeling like beating 7,000 players and winning $8K for your $11.

Or not, and best of luck with your cash games.

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DougPkrMonsta said:

Rare eh? When's the last time you won 800 times your buyin at a cash game? Because I have done it on back to back days before while playing tournaments.

Deep runs are more common than you might think for those who take the time to learn the strategy and don't dismiss the idea outright. Try watching Tonka or bparis on Twitch sometime if you don't believe me.

How about sitting at a cash game table for hours hoping you are on the right side of a deep-stacked cooler that will determine how your session goes that day? Or finally getting that cooler and losing to a two outer for your whole stack.

That doesn't sound better than having to navigate a short stack and win a few coinflips to win some money, but that's just me.

In tournaments you can lose some hands and not necessarily lose money, so you gain experience quickly and cheaply compared to cash games. The more you play the better you will get and the more money you can make.

It's all personal taste really and acting like there is a clearly better choice is silly.

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Rational Madman said:

When I enter coolers I am ALWAYS on the upper hand because I fold if they raise something too big that I wouldn't want to lose unless I have either the nuts or (if they appear loose-ish) one below the nuts.

For instance if 7 8 9 is there and they hard-push and I have 56, I fold. You can laugh at me for being this tight but I never, I mean never, have a losing session if it lasts more than 9 minutes.

The only way I've ever lost significantly is with full house into 4-kind cooler.

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Jblocher1 said:

Good luck making money folding near nuts because u are afraid of 610/10J. The whole point of a cooler is that it's unavoidable if you play the hand optimally and you CANNOT and I repeat, CANNOT always be on the good side of a cooler if you are playing anything even remotely close to good poker. I'm sorry but that's the truth.

"I never get coolered because I'm a super nit who gets it in only with the nuttiest nuts" are the words of someone who doesn't have the experience to know just how exploitable that strategy is.

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Rational Madman said:

I profit by consistently betting small and only entering hands where there is reasonably little at stake. I always win the big bets when and if the situations arise where I'm damn sure the other person has a straight into my flush etc. You have no idea how good I am because you don't understand what smallballing is you tournament addict.

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Jblocher1 said:

Good luck making money folding near nuts because u are afraid of 610/10J. The whole point of a cooler is that it's unavoidable if you play the hand optimally and you CANNOT and I repeat, CANNOT always be on the good side of a cooler if you are playing anything even remotely close to good poker. I'm sorry but that's the truth.

"I never get coolered because I'm a super nit who gets it in only with the nuttiest nuts" are the words of someone who doesn't have the experience to know just how exploitable that strategy is.

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Jblocher1 said:

Good players just won't pay you off in big spots once they peg u as the nittiest nit in all the land sir. What stakes do u play online?

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Rational Madman said:

But they do, because I never make it clear what I have I raise just as much for three of a kind as 2 pair etc. They can never peg me down and will raise as I usually fold to big bets and since that's my style when I have the nuts it's so easy to trap them.

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Rational Madman said:

I'm saying I trap them with it

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Jblocher1 said:

You trap them by folding to big bets with the nuts?

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Rational Madman said:

How do you find a graph of that?

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Rational Madman said:

My poker is my business not yours.

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Rational Madman said:

In 2 months or so, I'll consider posting the 2 months. I only got very good 3 weeks ago and am still perfecting my table image (I am good at reading others but not brilliant at seeing how they are reading me yet).

My profits will be far more consistent and flawless on a graph when and if I've mastered this final aspect of my gameplay. Thanks for your consideration.

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