Dilemma

Alright, here's my first post on this forums, already enjoying my time here.

I've been playing poker for around 2 years now, and i've been playing seriously for around a half a year. I still know I have an extremely large amount of flaws, but I do consider myself to be better than the average donk at low levels.

Here's my dilemma, when it comes to poker, I much rather prefer to play tournaments, as I enjoy the change and adaptations that need to be made throughout the tournament, and on the other hand, I am much more successful in ring games.

My question to you all is; should I play ring games to build my bankroll up easier, or should i stick to real low stakes SnG's and try to improve my game in the game that I prefer?

Recap - you are successful in cash games but enjoy tournaments.

You can play both, make ring games your normal grind, and play a tourney or two with a portion of your profits from ring.

If you are more successful in one form of play than an other, it is a poor financial decision to forgo your strength simply on preference.
That does not mean however that your personal preference should not matter, so as you are improving your tourney play, you are financing your learning curve with a game you are good at but not as fond of.

GL to you.

First question that comes to me is:
Why do you play?

If for enjoyment, then play the game you enjoy.

If for profit, well, follow the profit.

Or play ring till you have enough BR to enter the SnG buy in you want.

If you enjoy tournies better, I would stick with em till you are better, which will happen with time anyway (assuming you are working on your game simultaneously as well)

I think you have to address your reasons for playing and the amount of volume you play.

IF you play relatively low volume and play primarily for fun then play what ever you enjoy the most.

If you play for primarily for the money and play higher volume then you need to play whatever you make the most money from.

Not everybody plays for the same reasons. So really you need to ask why you play and from that decide what you should play.

Beat me to it!

I say to hell with it all. Play some checkers and call it a day






****DISCLAIMER****
Of course i'm only saying that because they took the words out of my mouth.

I have similar situation. Im a winning player at the SnG's but enjoy the freedom of cash games. But until I can get better at cash Im going to stay where Im making a profit.

LeatherA$$ makes a good point in one of his CardPlayers Articles where he talks about staying at the games youre good at and not spreading your self to much over other games. You dont see many pro athletes playing two sports. They stay where they're good at.

Thanks for the responses guys, appreciate it.
I'm going to stick with cash games and build my bankroll up. I do play a lot and am playing to make some nice side money.

See what I told ya you get good friendly advice here glad to see you decided to join us. I usually don't ask people to join CC unless they ask what it is but you and Joey seemed like the kind of friendly players we like having here.

True, Ring Games are to tourneys as a Sprint is to a Marathon

Grossberger is this another fellow player from Ohio?

I don't think so I played him in a 90 man SNG and I got 1st he got 2nd but was a pleasure playing him and another player so I invited them to join.
I can't seem to get friends to join they don't read much LOL.

Ok, I don't mean to hijack the thread, but what part of Ohio are you from? I live near OSU.

Then don't hijack it check these
OHIO POKER
http://www.cardschat.com/f4/any-ohio-players-92141/ (http://www.cardschat.com/f4/any-ohio-players-92141/)

lol

I would like to see people post their stats when they post any strat on this site lol

Glad you are having fun here. Here's a thought. Assuming you're talking about NLHE, why not pick up at least the first couple volumes of Harrington on tournament play - $40 including shipping for the both of them (red & blue). Amazon.com: dan harrington: Books . You might get a better handle on the 'flaws', and how to fix them. Winning will make it even more enjoyable. Until you do that. I'd focus a bit more on the cash games - that's just me personally. But if you like the tourneys much better, then get better, and do what you enjoy.

We would like to see people not spam the forums, by posting "LOL" in the same minute as another 1 line post that makes no sense.

If you enjoy tournament games stick to those and build up your skill.
You have a better chance of reaching a higher level if you're also having fun along the way.

Here's mine:

PTR Rating: -5554 "This guy runs so bad that if he ends up being a winning player with online poker the world may explode."

Thanks for the advice, I actually do own the two volumes and thoroughly enjoyed them. I understand each concept well enough to incorporate them into my thinking and strategy, I'll also reading some more material later this summer, when I have more free time (and spending money)

Thanks for the nice comments about me Grossberger, the tournament was fun and couldnt have lost to a better opponent, the money I lost is minuscule compared to the knowledge I'll gain here.

Some really good answers here. You should also check our archives and previous posts and many other people had interesting things to say when this question was last asked.