Why Don't The Donks Go To Cash Games So Much?

Why is it that sit n gos and tournaments seem to attract so much more donks than cash games?
The general level of play in online cash games seems very tight at 50NL and above, with most players at the tables being fairly competent.
I just wonder why don't the terrible players in sit n gos and tournaments play cash games. Its a pity they don't.
The cash games are still beatable obviously but I find sit n gos more profitable.

Donks = Gamblers

Think of their mindset... if they take 1st they quadruple their buy-in

They are also the ones who will buy into a large MTT in hopes of winning +$25k.

Much like the tree logger in 2009 wsop... huge donk IMO but, ran like god and was more lucky than skilled

Totally agree with the above thread, took the words right outa my mouth

i agree most donks stay away from cash games because their mind set is like winning the lottery.They look at 7-2 off like its AA!

theres still lots of fish that play cash at all stakes

I agree with the above posts. Cash games are usually a grind, and donks just want to win as much as possible as quick as possible, which is why you see so many in MTT.

Donks play poker as they are playing lottery and bingo, therefore they need to grind many many hands, inorder to get the prizes.
I guess MTT , or sometime low buyin cash game end up all the donks are

Yeah, while MTT's can be really frustrating, because the rising blinds make it difficult to use your skill to take the fishes money, they're also really soft.

Hell, what do you think a satellite does? It takes 10 fish, pools their resources, and funnels one of them up to higher stakes. If only cash games had a way to get really bad players at low stakes up to a high stakes game!

There are many donks in cash games. I see them every night at razz and stud hi-low. Problem is in a cash game, the really bad players go broke very fast and I'm sure many of them prefer to get more playing bang for their buck at a SNG or MTT.

Donks

i know from experience that there are a lot of donks on cash games, especially on Full Tilt, i think the donks play in cash games because it doesn't take as long as a tournament, you can have breaks when you like, and if you're a lucky donk, like most of them are, then you can win a lot of money, i also think they do not play in tournaments because the luck factor is taken away, if you go in a deep stack then there isn't much of a chance that you are going to get you stack in with an average hand.
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I agree with the above posts and think your premise is somewhat flawed.

50nl has a $50 buyin. Are you comparing these players to $50+5 sit'n'go players?

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Xavier said:

Why is it that sit n gos and tournaments seem to attract so much more donks than cash games?
The general level of play in online cash games seems very tight at 50NL and above, with most players at the tables being fairly competent.
I just wonder why don't the terrible players in sit n gos and tournaments play cash games. Its a pity they don't.
The cash games are still beatable obviously but I find sit n gos more profitable.

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If a donk sits $100NL, gets lucky and wins, he'll come back tomorrow. If a donk plays in a $100 BI tournament, gets lucky and wins, he's coming back for life.

No matter how much he loses, he is still a good player, right? He won a tournament...

According to the guy who flopped top set when I was open-ended with a 2nd nut FD, I'm a donk for calling when my pot-odds were good. And a donk for hitting.

And the reason I don't play cash games is because I'm far too lazy to excersize BRM for a cash game at a stake I'd be interested in playing - (200 NL, as I'm used to playing live) - as the 200 NL is much harder than a live game online - which is what I have access to. And I don't want to go broke. So I can have a BR of $50 and play $1 SnGs or $100 and play $1 MTTs all day and all night and still play online poker - which is what I want to do - but if I put that same $100 in and play 2NL . . . I'll be bored out of my mind even if I have an excellent win rate of 15BB/100 (or $.30 every 100 hands - woooo) And would rather enter tournaments to win buy-ins at a larger scale.

So there you go - luck has nothing to do with it - just a desire to excercise proper BRM so they don't go broke and playing within their limits.

WG

Epik High said:

theres still lots of fish that play cash at all stakes

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I agree with this too but really agree with the mtt and sng more. You give a donk any sizable chipstack in a tournament and they go to betting and calling anything. Two overcards on a flop and they will call anything or even put you all in on what they think is a good move. Some of the worser players here do the same thing or some of the donks on here do the same thing.

hey god bless them...if there was no donks out there , there will be just good player out there and there will be no money going back and forth....i love playing against them ...i make most of my money from them and use there own aggression against them

There are plenty of fish at the cash tables, I se em everyday.

Aside from that, the are a couple reasons you see so many in MTTs and SnGs over ring games:
The biggest one, I believe(and it was already stated), is the risk-reward ratio....Take the Daily Dollar for example, it will cost someone $1 to possibly win like $1600. You will never find that in a $.01/.02 game buying in for that same $1.
Another big reason is that once that initial buyin for the MTT or SnG is paid, that is all that's coming out of their pocket(unless it's a rebuy tourney). So it's not like a ring game in that they can lose more than that initial $1(from last example). Granted, the person can just go ahead and join another tourney when they bust out, but with MTT's they aren't AS frequent.