I'm wanting to start playing more cash games now as I believe profit may be more consistent over time as compared to tournaments. Is this correct?
Cash games have less variance and allow you more control of your poker time. In a tourny you play till you bust. In a cash game you can quit any time. When the kids come home, when you get a headache, when its dinner time etc.
Also, let's say your bankroll allows you to buy in for $2 on a table, that money is available till it's $0 right and then you buy in again. But what happens if you run that money up to say $5 or $7 etc; all that money is at risk on that table, so when do you cash out that $5/7 and buy back in for $2 again?
I hope someone can understand what I'm trying to say. Thanks
I always play the maximum the table will allow, although I don't like the auto top off. IMHO, one needs to be ready to maximize the win at all times, which means money on the table. If you double up, even better, especially when others have more than the minimum buy in. They have to be concerned about you pushing in that double stack, making their decisions harder. Anything that makes life harder for teh villain is good, IMHO.
Again IMHO, having a double stack is a reason to stay, not leave. Poker is not a single session, it is a lifetime of sessions. Where one stops and another begins, who can tell? The reasons I leave a table are in order:
1. The game turns bad for me. The donator busts out and there are nothing but good players left.
2. I'm tired. Why play tired? On line the game is never ending. Log off, go to bed, and play tomorrow.
3. Real life intrudes. The kids need attention, you promised the wife, time for dinner or to go to work, whatever. (yes I have a real job).
4. I lose interest. Happens more than you'd think.
5. I am tilting. About the third time I get stacked by a runner runner it drives me batty. I understand bad beats on an intellectual leave, but if I find myself yelling at the computer or wanting to throw my cards in someone's face it is time to go.
If the donk sitting on my immediate right rebuys after I have stacked him twice, I might ask the wife to hold dinner or to watch the kids, but I always go to work and I try and never play tired. BTW, I'm 61 so that tired thing happens more than you'd think.