Tournament vs Cash game - Losing less vs Winning more

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Tournament vs Cash game  - Losing less vs Winning more

Tournaments are attractive to weaker players, who are affraid to lose a lot of cash by playing cash tables or players who dont want to invest a large sum of money into a bankroll. And this is the reason why you meet a lot of donkeys in the tournaments. Everyone in a tournament buys in for same amount and are seated randomly, but in cash games you are seated with a group of players who all have similar levels of skill and expirience.

To play tournaments you need much larger bankroll than playing cash tables, and cash games gives more positive result for a good player than tournaments, but the amount of money made on cash tables will always be far less than the winners share of a tournament with an equal buyin amount.

When it comes to your chips, they have different importance in tournaments and cash games. In a tournament every chip represents your tournament life and in cash games you can rebuy chips when ever you feel for it.

Theres days where everything works out for a player in cash games, wins 80 times the investment, and theres days where you meet bad beat after bad beats. To make big money is very attractive to gamblers, and more attractive to players who know their skill level is lower than other players on the table.

When it comes to playing styles, to be a successful tournament player, requiers that you are more conservative with your chips than on a cash table, and a weak- tight play style will get blinded out with all pressure of raising blinds, while a tight-aggressive play style last longer, with not playing every hand, stealing blinds now and then, raising pre flop and bluff few out of the pot. In other way to say it, in tournaments you need to adjust your aggression and hand requirements along with the ratio of your stack to the total sum of the blinds.

 -Losing less vs Winning more is a valuable concept in tournaments-

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Comments (2)

Posted on Jul 24th 2008 by PI_Viceroid I play tourneys and cash games becouse I think that doing both gives me the right balance. Byes, too bad first video isn't available

Posted on Jul 24th 2008 by RaBBiiTGiiRL its avaible for me.. lol i can see it