Tips for transitioning from tournaments to cash games?

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Anyone have any tips how to transition from tourney player to cash games? I just can't beat cash games...what is your best tip?
 
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ANYONE HAVE ANY TIPS HOW TO TRANSITION FROM TOURNEY PLAYER TO CASH I JUST CANT BEAT CASH GAMES WHAT IS YOUR BEST TIP!!!!
When you jump onto the cash games sections, you need to understand that you are probably at a large disadvantage if all your experience was tournaments.
Many of these players primarily specialize in these cash games, so my suggestion to you would be to only play in the $0.01/$0.02 super micro cash games. Wait until you are able to win at these levels before playing in much larger stakes.
At these levels, it is kind of like playing in freerolls even though you are actually investing your hard earned money, but if you have a good understanding of bankroll management, you will be fine getting some needed experience at a min cost to yourself……[IMHO]
 
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My best tip is to open several ring tables and watch for a while. Note who is multi-tabling and try to take notes on other players before you jump in. When you are ready, try to seat yourself to the left of the big stacks with a minimum buy-in at first. Try your standard game and see where you are at from there. Maybe come back to this thread and tell us what happened. Good luck.
 
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I belive NBB is corect in what he's saying. You don't play enough with 100bb+ in mtts to get good enough at situation that arise with that stack.
Also in my opinion the transition from cash tables to mtts is easier than the other way around. So play the lowest limit till you are able to beat it over a long period and just move up after that.
 
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With bigger stacks you are gonna see more streets, and you cant stack people with top pair so easily, refine your post flop game, think ahead on every street, make a plan for your hands.
 
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I got a couple tips for you.

Play tight.
Play your hands for value.
Don't over pay for your draws.
Don't feel like you have to defend your blinds.
Small hands, small pots. Big hands, big pots.
Just settling in for the grind, the blinds aren't going up so just play tight. This is assuming your playing full ring. Short handed is a little different.

Hope this helps! Good luck out there!
 
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Slowly increase your buy in from a level you are comfortable with in tourney.(in BB, not money value)

Expect more loose calls, and expect many of them to be correct even when they are a clear error in a tournament. Also, you can rebuy any time so no-one is worried about getting stacked.

As stacks get deeper your "Premium" hands go down in value, and speculative hands go up. Reading hands will be less straight forward, so you will need to rely a little more on ranges, and thinking about EV.
 
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Learn to play deepstack and don't be tempted to go all-in without nuts.
 
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As I see it. When you play tournaments, you more often play ABC poker - raising with only good hands, most of the time folding suited connectors, pushing. And when you play cash game you don't need to rush. You play slowly. The stacks are deep enought to do it so. Here you can even 3bet with connectors and so on. Basically you can play more hands than you would play in a tournament.
 
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A good tip is that you can be way more patience with what hands you want to play with. It is also key to know when to leave the table when you are up even if you only been at the table for maybe 45 mins but be ready to be play for a long time before you have a stack that you are willing to say you are done for the day.
 
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