Ring vs Tourney difference

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So yesterday I went to the Bike ( http://www.thebike.com/poker-tournaments-los-angeles/daily.html )for a tourney, and did some things I am not unhappy about, but in hindsight I realize that they are not so good to do in tourney's, but fine to do in ring games.

I had 'found' the $40 to join the game, and intended NOT to rebuy or add on. I just needed some live poker. I had actually intended to register late in the earlier game, and was surprised after the fact that I got in a game that didn't start for another 40 minutes.

At the end of the first period and the cheapest chance to add on, I woke up OTB with TJs, and called a raise from MP. Flop hit my J, villain shoved, and I called, then hit my T and my 2p prevailed. Nothing so odd about that hand, cuz I knew that if I was going to avail myself of the opportunity to add-on, I had a break to think it over. I did not. The structure has elevating levels of add-ons (1 total), such that the per chip cost of adding on increases for 4 periods. Complicated.

I was the big stack (at that table) with that hand for most of the 3rd hour. Then a huge stack moved in to a seat I had just sent packing. Dynamics of that table changed radically immediately. This guy was not shy about using his bully pulpit.

Toward the end of the 4th hour I found myself in the 2 spots where I have no problems with my decision to play the hands. The first was a double draw on the river where villain, who had made outrageous bets earlier but had not shown down any hand, and I called his shove ( I had the stack to do it). I didn't catch and he showed only an Ax for a pair of A's that he hit on the flop.

While I did accomplish one thing, which was to see wtf he was betting, it sort of tilted me, as we went into the 4 hour break.

The 2nd hand and final one for me, was when I was relatively short stacked, and with KK, and knowing I was aiming at getting it all in, I slow played them. I wanted someone to match my stack, he ended up hit 2 pr, and beat me.

I lost heart and did not do my add-on option, and left.

So, the different approaches via tourney or ring have reared their ugly heads today, and I think I will not do what I did again in a tourney. But in a ring game I might do those things for the same reasons. There are times where it is necessary to see wtf a villain is doing. In ring it only costs some chips, in a tourney it can damage a tourney life. The slow play with the K's is less of a black/white decision, but still, in a do or die situation I might slow play the K's in a ring game but more of a trap than most anything else.

While I generally agree that a poker hand is a poker hand regardless of what the bigger situation is (tourney or ring), I hope these are some of the more clear situations where there are differences. Difference that should be taken into account regarding the format in which these hands occur.

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