NoWuckingFurries
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This is probably a stupid question, but I'm not only going to ask it anyway, I'm also going to try to explain why I am asking it. It's not a rhetorical question, and I really am interested to know what you guys (and gals!) think, even though you might think that the answer is obvious.
This is a bit embarrassing, but I have to admit that BelgoSuisse is a bit of a hero of mine. I rarely have men as heroes, it just feels a little too gay for my liking. However, first of all he actually achieved something that a lot of people try to do, and most fail:
[old link~tb]
Secondly I was expecting him to be a really smug smart-alec when I met him, but despite living in france he still somehow manages to be a really nice guy, and you shouldn't under-estimate how much of an achievement that is for somebody that is surrounded by French people all day!
Now in another thread Stu Ungar made a comment that surprised me somewhat, when he suggested that tournaments are not more complicated than cash games, in post 35 of this thread:
Poker Bots
So far all I've ever really done is play tournaments, I enjoy playing tournaments although I'm not particularly good at them, and most of the time I play freerolls anyway so the standards are pretty appalling anyway.
Now I've found out that I'm not tied to an affiliate and RBP have opened a FT account for me, and I'm looking at the options (if any) that are open to me.
Various threads here have said that tournament play and cash games are very different, and do what you enjoy or are good at. I might be mistaken, but the impression I have received here over the last couple of years is that the cash game regs love tournament players coming over to the cash tables, usually to clear a sign-up bonus, because they tend to be easy money.
So these are some options open to me:
1) Carry on playing freerolls and ignore the fact that I have a RBP account until my game is much better and I am winning regularly.
2) Shell out for HEM or PT and try to multitable on a break-even basis, then theoretically take the RB as profit assuming that I am actually capable of playing break-even poker.
Presumably RB accumulates much more quickly on multi-tabled cash games rather than multi-tabled SNGs, for example, but I also assume that it requires more skill?
I'm also assuming that it would not work to have a mixture of cash tables and SNG tables, especially for somebody new to multi-tabling?
I did do some multi-tabling of DoN tournaments when I was clearing my PS deposit bonus, but obviously DoNs have a much more simplistic structure so that didn't require too much skill or strategy.
Sorry for the wall of text, but there's just such a mish-mash of different thoughts in my head at the moment. Also I'm not sure whether this is the best place to post this, so please feel free to move it elsewhere.
Please discuss!
This is a bit embarrassing, but I have to admit that BelgoSuisse is a bit of a hero of mine. I rarely have men as heroes, it just feels a little too gay for my liking. However, first of all he actually achieved something that a lot of people try to do, and most fail:
[old link~tb]
Secondly I was expecting him to be a really smug smart-alec when I met him, but despite living in france he still somehow manages to be a really nice guy, and you shouldn't under-estimate how much of an achievement that is for somebody that is surrounded by French people all day!
Now in another thread Stu Ungar made a comment that surprised me somewhat, when he suggested that tournaments are not more complicated than cash games, in post 35 of this thread:
Poker Bots
So far all I've ever really done is play tournaments, I enjoy playing tournaments although I'm not particularly good at them, and most of the time I play freerolls anyway so the standards are pretty appalling anyway.
Now I've found out that I'm not tied to an affiliate and RBP have opened a FT account for me, and I'm looking at the options (if any) that are open to me.
Various threads here have said that tournament play and cash games are very different, and do what you enjoy or are good at. I might be mistaken, but the impression I have received here over the last couple of years is that the cash game regs love tournament players coming over to the cash tables, usually to clear a sign-up bonus, because they tend to be easy money.
So these are some options open to me:
1) Carry on playing freerolls and ignore the fact that I have a RBP account until my game is much better and I am winning regularly.
2) Shell out for HEM or PT and try to multitable on a break-even basis, then theoretically take the RB as profit assuming that I am actually capable of playing break-even poker.
Presumably RB accumulates much more quickly on multi-tabled cash games rather than multi-tabled SNGs, for example, but I also assume that it requires more skill?
I'm also assuming that it would not work to have a mixture of cash tables and SNG tables, especially for somebody new to multi-tabling?
I did do some multi-tabling of DoN tournaments when I was clearing my PS deposit bonus, but obviously DoNs have a much more simplistic structure so that didn't require too much skill or strategy.
Sorry for the wall of text, but there's just such a mish-mash of different thoughts in my head at the moment. Also I'm not sure whether this is the best place to post this, so please feel free to move it elsewhere.
Please discuss!
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