cash or tournament?

[Bosco781]

my philosophy, a big cash game is a tournament win reward

[Sharking]

But a big cash game loss is also like 20 buyins for tourneys... its a tradeoff. Cash games are normally more consistent profit. Tournaments have huge payouts for first but you lose a lot more

[abenz419]

when I play in cash games I'm always one upped. Earlier today I was playing and just a short while I had a hand where I flopped 2 pair and someone turned a higher two pair. I had a hand where I flopped a set, and someone else flopped a higher set. I also had a hand where I flopped top pair with king kicker and flush draw, I never made the flush draw and ended up losing to top pair with an ace kicker. It happens constantly like that when I play cash games. The few hands I win are always for minimal cash and the hands I lose I have a big hand but like I said am always one upped so its always for a bigger pot.

[marlais]

It depends. I think the variance is higher on cash games, but there's nothing better for your bankroll than finding a whale on tilt at a cash table.

[YouWereDOA]

Ring play is by far a better situation for me than tourney play. Its way more about money management and table selection than the whatever tourney play shit. I want to get better at tourney play but then I sit down at a ring table and wonder why the hell I waste my time at all in tournies.

[abenz419]

I wish I could play more cash games, when i do walk away with money it's at the very least double what I sat down with, but like i said a couple post ago I keep getting one upped and then I start playing scared because it seems like it doesn't matter what I have, I'm always beat.... I feel like i could flop a royal flush at a cash table, and still somehow lose a showdown lol

[YouWereDOA]

I am putting together a series, if you want to call it that, of blog posts this coming week on ring play, I will let you know so you can read through it if you want for maybe a bit of insight/viewpoints for ring stuff.

[abenz419]

yeah that sounds good I know I could use the help and it couldn't hurt to read em

[onedesperate]

Now that US players are so limited in places to play it is much harder to win in tourneys IMO. Cash games are harder then what the used too. I prefer playing in tourneys. I just wish I could still play them on stars or absolute. lol

[astronaut]

cash is more consistent and stable flow wise but man are tourneys fun lol. i can tilt and not pay $200 out the ass later on