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Advice for tournament players switching to Cash...
A thread to share advice and tips on this transition.
What are the differences? What's the same?
Is BRM different in your opinion?
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For cash, as the above post says you will need to be careful to begin with. At least with a tournament you have a set buyin and then y ou play tilll you are out. At a cash table if you play badly or luck runs against you, you might find yourself down a few buyins quite quickly.
I don't agree at all with the above post on teh "play tighter approach" though. In cash game you have a fixed bb and so the game leads itself to more speculative hands. This doesn't mean play rubbish from all positions, but it does mean you are likely playing PP's from any postion looking for sets, where as in SnG and MTT you have to give up on this set-mining approach fairly early due to blind levels to stack level concerns. You are (or should be) at 100bbs and so your play is not so restricted. Also, playing suited conectors is common in cash game, postion a little more dependant.
One big chance you'll find in cash game is that you do have to be a better post flop player, and often why people say that cash game players are slightly better players. Further you go into an MTT the more often the choices get made on the flop or even preflop due to stack sizes, where as in cash games you'll often be facing choices all the way to the river. This means needing to be more aware of the board and possible villian hand ranges.
This also leads on to the fact you should not fall into the trap of overvaluing TPTK. Should should be a little wary about thinking to commit your whole stack in this situation. Certainly early stages of change to playing cash I'd say play with the mentality to win and lose small while looking for bigger hands to play for stacks. 2-pair, sets, straights and flushes.
As a guide to hands and postions and I'd something like this to start with. Download something like Equilab if you need help with starting ranges
UTG: 6% range.
MP: 9% range
CO: 23% range
BTN: 36% range.
That is my tightest range. And you shold be looking to play a tight-aggresive/aggresive style. Passive poker is a killer unless up against a agro player and then you can play the passive game against them. Lot at lower levels tend to be a little passive, certainly post-flop and even preflop when it comes to 3betting.
Thnks thats enough of a load. But if someone wants my 3bet range preflop etc, just say. Of course these are guides, as players do matter and as always postion is god.
Oh other than one side note. I have a rule with myself from bitter experience. Do nothing silly in the first 20-30 hands until you got some idea of the people at your table. IE no triple barrel bluffs until you have some idea who the callign stations are etc. And lastly as the saying goes, if you can't see the fish at your table within 10-20 minutes move table because it's you.
Add in tommyd, scotty, lolufold, 3 of the highest volume high stakes cash players on here over the last 12 months, and 'team cash' are up over a quarter of a million dollars on Sky tournaments.
Not bad on a site where the biggest daily buyin is a 60 runner £50 comp!
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I enjoy both formats MTT's more as cash becomes tedious that I win at.
I don't know to many people that started with SnG's and MTT's and did ok that didn't struggle quite a bit everytime they tried cash, certainly for a while. I know it was the case for me that when I started I tried switching to cash a couple of times before it stuck and I was profitable at it. Mistakes in some way that much more costly and more chances to make those mistakes.