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Message: [QUOTE="Rational Madman, post: 3877103, member: 227817"] If you are a good tournament player the top four tips I will give you to dominate cash games (instead of tournaments) are these: 1) Keep the tournament skills in terms of EARLY tournament play. As soon as a tournament hits what you mentally register as 'mid-game' no longer retain your skills or analysis as you are in perpetual early-game in cash games. 2) Do not be as afraid to engage with weak hands if fewer people seem to be going for a hand and if the original raiser is a loose-aggressive player. The more the LAG player mentally registers of you calling him/her the less they will keep doing so as they learn to fear you especially if you beat them after underplaying them to the river. Taming LAG players is one of the most important skills and is much more necessary in cash games where a rich and/or lucky person can completely bully the whole table unless they learn that you will engage with them once in a while even with a mediocre hand and that you are unreadable post-flop as you let them bet into you. 3) Do not play to protect blinds, play to profit plain and simple. You should always be willing to fold if anyone who you don't read as 'loose' is engaging you consistently at the flop, turn etc. If you don't have nuts and they appear to be showing severe strength, then you can learn the hard way (if you want) or take if from me that you are being out-drawn and should only engage non-loose players with nut-like hands if they keep showing aggression back to your bets. 4) Past the flop, playing passive is only a good idea against very aggressive players, otherwise not betting is pointless because easy consistent bluffs against very tight tables is how you profit here and against non-tight tables betting still helps you know how strong their hands are as loose-passive players may suddenly reraise showing strength you otherwise wouldn't have known their hand to have and is how you get caught by drawing 2pair on the river to their superior 2pair on the flop etc. [/QUOTE]

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