Getting better, but still losing at weekends

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I left poker for a couple of years after the Full Tilt difficulties, only coming back to poker (and CC) fairly recently. I have always been a recreational player who played microstakes, probably depositing about $15 roughly twice a month, and since I have come back I seem to have improved slightly.

I haven't had to deposit at Full Tilt for a couple of months after winning a $400 guaranteed tournament and a few other nice final table finishes, my balance fluctuates up and down quite a lot but I'm used to higher variance from playing MTTs and SNGs than a cash game player might experience.

I notice various people here saying that they do quite nicely at weekends, when a lot more recreational players come out to play, but that doesn't seem to be true for me. I actually do worse at weekends than I do during the week. Any suggestions of why that might be, or ways that I could possibly work out why myself (by using my HM2 stats, for example), or maybe ways that I could change my playstyle at weekends?

I generally try to play TAG but often tend more towards tight passive. I don't bluff much.
 
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Losing During the Weekend

This is easy to answer there are a lot more players in the tournaments on the weekends its much much easier to win a tourny with 100 ppl than a tourney with 300-500 ppl. Its simple math. And I disagree the variance in CASH games is MUCH HIGHER than tournaments its not even close tourney players experience 60% less variance than a cash game player especially at the micro stakes.
 
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I disagree the variance in CASH games is MUCH HIGHER than tournaments its not even close tourney players experience 60% less variance than a cash game player especially at the micro stakes.

That's interesting. I wonder why in the BRM discussions they generally suggest that cash game players need 30 to 50 buy-ins , whereas they suggest that MTT players need to have anything between 100 buy-ins (Jaime Staples) and 250 to 300 buy-ins (Felix Schneiders). Seems strange that they would recommend that if the variance in cash games is higher, as you claim.
 
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This is easy to answer there are a lot more players in the tournaments on the weekends its much much easier to win a tourny with 100 ppl than a tourney with 300-500 ppl. Its simple math. And I disagree the variance in CASH games is MUCH HIGHER than tournaments its not even close tourney players experience 60% less variance than a cash game player especially at the micro stakes.

I firmly disagree with this view . varience in cash games much more less than tournaments. cash games are differect beast game.. cash games are not for those who tilt badly cos then they can loose their socks off ..if you are good on brm then cash games are the best way to Play
 
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That's interesting. I wonder why in the BRM discussions they generally suggest that cash game players need 30 to 50 buy-ins , whereas they suggest that MTT players need to have anything between 100 buy-ins (Jaime Staples) and 250 to 300 buy-ins (Felix Schneiders). Seems strange that they would recommend that if the variance in cash games is higher, as you claim.

varience in cash games is not at all higher than tournaments. 30 to 50 buyins of cash games are more than adequate . but yes for tilted Players , varience in cash games is much higher . cos if they lose a few buyins , then they jump to higher Level tables to recoup the losses. so thats bad
 
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This is easy to answer there are a lot more players in the tournaments on the weekends its much much easier to win a tourny with 100 ppl than a tourney with 300-500 ppl. Its simple math. And I disagree the variance in CASH games is MUCH HIGHER than tournaments its not even close tourney players experience 60% less variance than a cash game player especially at the micro stakes.

1. MTT variance is way (5 to 10 times) higher than cash game variance, as evidenced by the BR management recommendations that you noted.

2. Completely ignore EVERYTHING that you ever read from JamesMoroski. He is totally clueless (and almost certainly full of shit) and will teach you horrible habits/strategies if you let him.

3. I'd be willing to bet a large sum or money that you shouldn't be changing anything on weekends. Sure, you might have fared worse on weekends to this point --- but it's just a function of small sample size. Do not change your game, as you aren't ready for that yet. Keep doing what you're doing, and add hand review if you aren't currently doing that. Evaluate your play based on the decisions you are making, not your results. If you do that and consistently make better decisions, you will get to the point that your win rate is (roughly) the same every day of the week.

Good luck.

-HooDooKoo
 
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Thanks. I'm fairly happy with my decisions in general, certainly happier with my postflop play than I was in the past, possibly a bit too willing to press the all-in trigger instead of 4-betting. There are also far fewer occasions where I think "what the pluck did I do that for?"

Except for in the CC freerolls, of course, where I still frequently think that :p
 
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My cash game blows utterly!

I'm better off in tournaments.

I'm not a good enough player to play cash games all the time.

I had a lucky run on freerolls the past couple of weeks. Just barely squeaked into the money enough to win about fifteen bucks.

Yep, I'm a high roller!

LOL!
 
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it is true
that weekends are the worst days to play poker
this weekend i almost lost everything
but today (monday) i won a SnG of 90 people.....
 
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