R
Rational Madman
Legend
Platinum Level
CASH GAMES ARE STILL WORSE THAN TOURNAMENTS FOR REGULAR PROFIT!
Let me put this to you people yet again so you truly can grasp that I am not trying to insult tournament players, I am trying to WARN YOU OF THE TRUTH!
You are having a limited amount of chance-based hands, a constantly-increasing minimum bet and a series of actions that you will never be able to tell if they are a lucky pocket ace/king suddenly being handed to a loose player, a complete bluff because they know you are tight and fold or a semi-bluff because they don't want to risk you out-drawing them... Or just value betting their semi-good hand in the same type of situation.
You cannot wait for situations where it's clear due to several factors that you are either being bluffed or have coolered the other player(s). You are forced to engage when you really should be folding based on the cards you're getting. It's unfair to you if you get unlucky and unfair to the others in the tournament if you have a hot run. It is literally luck who gets first or third and even more luck who survives all-in clashes from the mid to the late game where stacks get built.
In fact the real irony of tournaments is that the players who learn to maximize their profit, as was recently taught to me not that it surprised me, are the players who cash out less often because they go somewhat kamikaze in the mid-game in order to have a huge stack by the end that means once they make it to the late-game they get first and second far more often than players who play to cash out and don't take a few dumb risks in the mid game to have a huge stack by the end.
You cannot ever understand why tournaments are designed for less smart players until you play smart and fail again and again at them. I don't for a second pretend that I just sat at cash games and grinded naturally, I still improve my game and learn to bluff and call bluffs or rather tighten up and NOT engage in bluffing or anti-bluffing based on clues every day. I am still a flawed player and always have tiny clues I don't pick up on or do pick up on and misinterpret based on wrong assumptions. I improve every time I play whether I win or lose, I use that as a means of scrutiny on my playstyle. What I have deduced is that your playstyle has far less consistent effect on tournaments than on cash games. Tournaments profit you in bursts so you may as well play them pretty LAG since playing TAG in no way at all benefits you in the long run as you never can dominate the late game with your tight style since you are consistently short-stacked by the end relative to the looser players who will have double or even six times your stack size by the late-game which can convert into 9 extra BBs more than you they can spend, quite often.
You can't abuse loose players properly in tournaments because you can't comeback from a significant loss like you can in cash games with a donkey who is going to stick around for you to win big from even if you lose big to them a couple times.
Let me put this to you people yet again so you truly can grasp that I am not trying to insult tournament players, I am trying to WARN YOU OF THE TRUTH!
You are having a limited amount of chance-based hands, a constantly-increasing minimum bet and a series of actions that you will never be able to tell if they are a lucky pocket ace/king suddenly being handed to a loose player, a complete bluff because they know you are tight and fold or a semi-bluff because they don't want to risk you out-drawing them... Or just value betting their semi-good hand in the same type of situation.
You cannot wait for situations where it's clear due to several factors that you are either being bluffed or have coolered the other player(s). You are forced to engage when you really should be folding based on the cards you're getting. It's unfair to you if you get unlucky and unfair to the others in the tournament if you have a hot run. It is literally luck who gets first or third and even more luck who survives all-in clashes from the mid to the late game where stacks get built.
In fact the real irony of tournaments is that the players who learn to maximize their profit, as was recently taught to me not that it surprised me, are the players who cash out less often because they go somewhat kamikaze in the mid-game in order to have a huge stack by the end that means once they make it to the late-game they get first and second far more often than players who play to cash out and don't take a few dumb risks in the mid game to have a huge stack by the end.
You cannot ever understand why tournaments are designed for less smart players until you play smart and fail again and again at them. I don't for a second pretend that I just sat at cash games and grinded naturally, I still improve my game and learn to bluff and call bluffs or rather tighten up and NOT engage in bluffing or anti-bluffing based on clues every day. I am still a flawed player and always have tiny clues I don't pick up on or do pick up on and misinterpret based on wrong assumptions. I improve every time I play whether I win or lose, I use that as a means of scrutiny on my playstyle. What I have deduced is that your playstyle has far less consistent effect on tournaments than on cash games. Tournaments profit you in bursts so you may as well play them pretty LAG since playing TAG in no way at all benefits you in the long run as you never can dominate the late game with your tight style since you are consistently short-stacked by the end relative to the looser players who will have double or even six times your stack size by the late-game which can convert into 9 extra BBs more than you they can spend, quite often.
You can't abuse loose players properly in tournaments because you can't comeback from a significant loss like you can in cash games with a donkey who is going to stick around for you to win big from even if you lose big to them a couple times.
