Cash games Vs Tourneys

[sentialsteve]

Is there any difference in the style you play these games? I seem to do alright in Tourney games but when it comes to cash games I can't seem to lose my money quick enough! I'm sure i must be playing the cash game on the wrong approach, the obvious being not patient enough to wait for good hands but i swear I'm quite disciplined! Whats your approach to the 2 games if you play them differently?

[John Holmes' Stunt C**K]

I tend to play no-limit STT's and limit cash tables.

Whenever I play cash tables, there's always a thought in the back of my mind that the other player has a better hand. The risk is lesser when playing tournaments.

I'm not a great fan of cash tables, but its worth while just watching your opponents for the first 20 odd hands, just to see what the play on

[Dice Man]

I just won't play cash games at all at the moment. I'm just bad at them because I hardly ever play. Plus they don't have an "end-target" except for there being a time limit which is probably arbitrary or you can choose when to stop. Like with casino arcades and slots, if I played cash games I would hardly ever take money home because any money I made I'd continue to play with until it had gone.
In tournament games you have to alter your play for the decreasing amount of players which makes it more fun. Plus the winner, though he doesn't take home all the money, he does have all the chips at the end. So Hachem ended up with over 56 million dollars in chips at the end of the WSOP main event. It must feel pretty good to have owned every single player in it. Every player knocked out could be traced back to Hachem in some kind of big tree. That's what poker's all about...baby.

[PokerWoody]

Cash games are for me what poker is all about. Tournements were invented so that the ladies could also enjoy poker IMO.

If you play good poker in the first level of a tournement you'll do alright in a cash game. Post some hands from your cash games where you're unsure what to do or you're unsure about your play and myself and other the other on here will attempt to help you out...

[Dice Man]

I'm not going to rush my progression in poker. Firstly I don't have much money to gamble with at the moment. The way I see it, when I do have money to gamble with (sensible amounts) I'll already have had lots of experience, particularly in STTs and tournaments. I think at the moment you'll find a lot of professionals, who are fairly intelligent people, are becoming interested in poker (because it's becoming more popular), they learn the basics of the game then they'll jump right into £200 buy-in tournaments, which isn't really that much to them, and they just won't be very good. They won't even mind losing because to them that's a night's entertainment.
I treat every game I play (even buy-ins of £1 in the past) as being all-important. I don't mind being knocked out on bad beats because I know they'd be less frequent at higher stakes as a result of people playing better. As long as I know I played every hand better than I would've played it last time then I'm happy with my performance. That doesn't always happen. I still play hands badly but always less hands played badly with every game. The two worst hands I played (live) this year were pots of around 80% of the chips left in the tournament. Both times I just got cocky having being a massive chipleader, and must've looked pretty silly in one of those times losing to a busted flush draw of queen high.
Anyway, onwards and upwards.