Some players are just better suited to cash others Lose at cash excel in STT?

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cotta777

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What sort of traits would you look for and what sort of differences would make a good cash player...

My view - I rarely play cash games (once a week) but I have a good recreational record in which im up over $500 in 20 months playing once a week for 3/4 hours with the same players in a local pub.
I play cash at casino maybe once a month and again I have a profit of around $400-$600 over a few sessions granted I was against some awful players.
I have never witnessed bad losses over a focused period of cash online under BRM. But I have a tendancy to take shots at higher stakes so I try to avoid getting to involved.

I play small and large mtts online and this tends to be my main source of poker.
I excel in accumalating chips extracting value post flop and pot control is usually well managed - very accurate showdown reads vs most players.

My weaknesses, Playing close to the bubble taking coolers late in mtts and other emotional aspects.
I have no problem with a bad beat in a cash game. I also get upset missing out on the big prizes.

Is there a possiblility switching to cash could be profitable long term.
I think naturally alot of the traits needed to make a good cash player I possess and my downfall is the late stage emotional aspects of mtts - giving a cooler is inevitable deep in a mtt.


Does anyone else have a clear divide beetween cash and tournament structure ?
 
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I saw A Brian Rast interview on CardPlayer about a similar question and he said "for a truely good player and experienced player there really is no difference between cash or tourney" I could see what he's sayin if I was on his level of play.

IMO the cash game would be harder, because the Boom is over and cash game volume has decreased immensely their for decreasing the amount of soft games making it harder to bink consecutive cash game wins. Loosing a Buy-in at a cash game can be harder to recover from when trying to consistently win at cash. In tournament buy-ins are lost more leisurely because the reward is much greater than a cash game. A few buy-ins lost in a tourney does not outweigh the value of a few buy-ins lost in a cash game it's sorta a bad example of (ICM) independent chip moduel, the win/loose ratio in today's poker market is probably better to play MTT's unless u can find really soft cash games, soft enough for u to win 100% of the time
 
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For the most part I think you're just successful at what you've practiced / studied more of: some people have focussed on cash game skills (deep stacks, game selection, etc), some on tournament ones (shorter stacks, bubble play, etc) and it follows that they do better at the ones they've put more time into.

That said, I think there are probably a few personality traits that come into it too. If you have trouble maintaining concentration for more than a few hours at a time, for example, then tournaments probably aren't for you.
 
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