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Article: Cash Games versus Multi-Table Tournaments

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  1. Rizen Rizen is offline Lock Poker PRM

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    Jul 22nd, 2009 (7/22/2009 9:14am)

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  2. blizair blizair is offline

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    Jul 22nd, 2009 (7/22/2009 9:41am) in reply to Rizen

    <p>great article rizen. i too am a slave to the tournament schedule. lol.</p>
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    Jul 22nd, 2009 (7/22/2009 10:23am) in reply to Rizen

    <p>^^slave here too</p>
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    Jul 22nd, 2009 (7/22/2009 1:12pm) in reply to Rizen

    <p>Training videos are bullshit.</p>
     
  5. P0KERDUUDE P0KERDUUDE is offline

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    Jul 22nd, 2009 (7/22/2009 1:52pm) in reply to Rizen

    <p>nice post. lol stack</p>
     
  6. StayCalm StayCalm is offline

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    Jul 22nd, 2009 (7/22/2009 4:29pm) in reply to Rizen

    <p>"I get a little bored sometimes after about that period of time and will usually do something stupid just to mix things up a bit or for my own entertainment, and more often than not it ends in disaster." = my life</p>
    <p>great article</p>
  7. awg awg is offline

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    Jul 22nd, 2009 (7/22/2009 4:38pm) in reply to Rizen

    <p>What was the point in this article?</p>
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    Jul 22nd, 2009 (7/22/2009 7:13pm) in reply to Rizen

    <p>Great article. Im at a point where I prefer tourneys to cash, but with 2 sons, find it difficult to get the necessary time and focus for MTTs. I think I will start playing more cash also</p>
  9. Naked_Bootleg Naked_Bootleg is offline

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    Jul 22nd, 2009 (7/22/2009 8:15pm) in reply to Rizen

    <p>Really is a great read for all you 18-22 year old players out there that don't realize that things will change once you have a family.</p>
  10. Hateflops Hateflops is offline 7 over par. ship it!

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    Jul 22nd, 2009 (7/22/2009 8:17pm) in reply to Rizen

    <p>Marry me Rizen</p>
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    Jul 22nd, 2009 (7/22/2009 8:36pm) in reply to Rizen

    <p>Nice article, I've started playing a lot more cash as well because of the freedom it gives you.  I was so sick of grinding tourneys for 10 hours with no break...thats not the freedom I wanted when I chose to play this game.  I advise everyone to think about playing PLO cash as it is not as boring as NL Cash...be ready for the variance tho!</p>
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    Aug 16th, 2009 (8/16/2009 1:07am) in reply to Rizen

    <p>As a professional poker player, I've played STTs, MTTs and Cash. Without a shadow of a doubt, cash is the most difficult - but its also the most rewarding. Like you, I find it almost impossible to play well for more than 90 mins at cash - the level of concentration required is phenomenal. MTTs you can play on autopilot for the first two hours at least; STTs, it's the same for the first few blind levels, but the lack of a dynamic with cash means you have to focus 100% of the time.</p>
    <p>That's why cash is truly the ultimate form of poker. God knows how the guys that play HU on multi tables do it. I 8 table 6 max and halve my winrate by making tiny lapses. at 4BB/100 playing 25c/50c, one mistake on the river can easily cost 50 big blinds, which means you have to work an extra ~800 hands, just to make up for one error on one hand out of the 600 you play in an hour.</p>
    <p>I'm a huge fan Rizen, but your article seems to me to underestimate the scale of the transition from trnys to cash, if you do this for a living.</p>
    <p>A winning MTT player eg 40% ROI at $55MTT and below, is going to struggle to beat $25nl 6 max. The first requires a br of $5500, the second a br of $500, but the cash player will suffer less variance and win more money on average.</p>
    <p>Done both. Both are hard, but at least with cash you get to pee in a toilet!</p>
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