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Ultra21
Rising Star
Silver Level
I want to focus on tournament poker strategy, but right now most of the games available to me are live low-stakes NL cash games. My concern is that I'd be studying for a format I have no real application for while potentially losing out on playing a poker format I can study and play in. I prefer playing tournaments over cash games because I like dealing with multiple stack sizes and potentially hitting a massive prize. I also like understanding how to beat different tournament formats from SNGs, PKOs, bounties, hyper-turbos, and so on.
With all that said, I was wondering about whether deep-stacked tournament strategy can be applicable to cash games and what adjustments will have to be made between both formats. My current idea is to study cash games because they are generally deep-stacked much like some tournaments (though generally deep-stacked for only the first few levels). This way, I get a lot of practice playing deep-stacked in live cash games and when I'm in an area where tournaments are abundant, I can later transition into MTT strategy from ICM, stack sizes, non-linearity of chip value, etc.
To summarize, would studying live cash game poker better help me when I later get into MTT poker or will it potentially hurt me? Should I be studying deep-stacked tournament poker play to then use for cash games or just go for cash game strategy and then later go for tournament strategy?
With all that said, I was wondering about whether deep-stacked tournament strategy can be applicable to cash games and what adjustments will have to be made between both formats. My current idea is to study cash games because they are generally deep-stacked much like some tournaments (though generally deep-stacked for only the first few levels). This way, I get a lot of practice playing deep-stacked in live cash games and when I'm in an area where tournaments are abundant, I can later transition into MTT strategy from ICM, stack sizes, non-linearity of chip value, etc.
To summarize, would studying live cash game poker better help me when I later get into MTT poker or will it potentially hurt me? Should I be studying deep-stacked tournament poker play to then use for cash games or just go for cash game strategy and then later go for tournament strategy?
