What's Your Preferred Game? (1 Viewer)

[MoscowRadio]

Do you like to play tournaments or cash games?
Why do you prefer one over the other?
Do you have any rituals or "good luck charms" that you use?

I'll start. For the last couple of weeks I've been playing mostly MTTs on Bovada. I'm going back to school at ASU in January, so I'm trying to log as many hours as I can, sometimes playing 10-12 hours a day and I've been getting good results. I've also been playing HU SnG's and doing really well there. Tournaments have been keeping my interest lately. The downsides are a) having to survive a relatively large field to see any ROI, and b) tournaments seem to drain the life out of me. I don't really have any "good luck charms", but I do chew peppermint gum while playing. Peppermint helps to keep you awake and alert, but that's the only time I ever chew gum.

Your turn!

 

[detroitdad]

Cash....

Fits my style more, I can play more hands, make more post flop decisions. You make a mistake, get unlucky, etc. ...rebuy and try again.

Back to Daredevil. ...

 

[derekdd23]

I play them both in streaks, ill play one or the other for a month or two then switch.

I have no idea why, probably because I enjoy both and they require different skills.

No rituals or charms, just make sure i am not tired or sick since that always messes with my bottom line

 

[DrStrange]

Cash....

Easy to start. Easy to add people that come late. The game runs as long as the players want.

Plus my win rate is better -=- DrStrange

 

[bentax1978]

Cash, by a very large margin for me, for all of the reasons stated above by @DrStrange. I'm also quite confident with my cash win rate, while tournaments are a bit more of an unknown given how few of them I've played in recent years.

 

[MoscowRadio]

I should've mentioned that my preferences differ between live and online.

I prefer playing cash if I'm going to play a live game. I've had much more success in live cash games than online. When it comes to tournaments though I prefer playing those online. I'll definitely jump into a live tournament whenever I have the chance though.

 

[ParrotheadMZ]

Tournaments. But if I could find a cash game I could play loose at I might change my mind lol. Play to tight at $1-$1 or $1-$2
And I don't like loosing money. I'm still like to play for fun not car payments lol

 

[bentax1978]

I should've mentioned that my preferences differ between live and online.

I don't really like playing cash games online, especially for significant stakes. I used to play them occasionally back in the day, but it was never as profitable for me as live cash games or online STT.

For me, live 1/3 or 2/5 cash games are my casino preference, 1/1 or 1/2 for home games.

 

[abby99]

Cash, live, low stakes.

 

[MoscowRadio]

Cash, live, low stakes.

Low stakes?? With all of those beautiful upper denominations you have?? The Lady Luck Club v.1 $20 chip is one of my all time favorites!

Who am I kidding? That whole set is one of my all time favorites.

 

[courage]

Cash. Live.

Uh, games: crazy pineapple, omaha.

 

[Zedlavo]

Cash, cash and cash. No routine or charms. Wear comfy clothes. When I caught the poker bug I was playing tournaments only. Loved tournaments. Cash seemed intimidating and the type of thing that "gamblers" did. Then I got into some cash games on some fun tables and I was in. I quickly lost the love for the tourneys and am way into cash games. I rarely play tournaments. I still very much like them, they're just not as fun as playing live. Turns out I'm a gambler..

Side note.. I took down a 100$ buy-in tourney at Ceasers in August. No biggie, two tables. They gave me a cool coin/card holder thing and money.. (humblebrag)

 

[NiceShot]

Live. I like them all. I am easy.

 

[links_slayer]

Put me at a table full of good friends with some cards and chips and I'm down for whatever.

If I had to choose between cash and tourney, cash would get the edge but only by a slim margin.

 

[detroitdad]

Put me at a table full of good friends with some cards and chips and I'm down for whatever.

If I had to choose between cash and tourney, cash would get the edge but only by a slim margin.

This exactly. Played all night long with a couple of PCF'ers and other good friends. Down 15 bucks on the night and had a blast. Our table was laughing and joking around while still getting some poker in.

Had a drunk guy that kept betting/raising blind. He is the reason I was only down 15, lol. I'd lose it to Chaos or Mike, then reacquire more chips from fun drunk guy, lol.

 

[spikeithard]

Cash for sure.. I don't mind the odd tourney but my 'best' skills lay within the cash game but no more than $1-2 nlhe.
My Omaha skills blow

 

[Leonard]

Cash. Hold'em is probably my best game but I'm decent at Omaha (esp PLO8) which gives me a better advantage over the field which is generally weaker. I play 90% cash which seems to have hurt my tournament game.

 

[pokerplayingpisces]

Both, as long as it is live poker.
Tournies attract the players, then they stay for cash. Holdem, Omaha, pineapple, 7 card stud. I'll play them all

 

[Ronoh]

SOHE

 

[bergs]

NLHE flips, followed by Big O8, followed by SOHE, with PLO flips dead last.

 

[slisk250]

Live NLHE tourney or cash. I'd like to learn limit hold em since I have 23 racks of Terrible's 1s to use.

 

[B.C.]

Cash.

SOHE, NL, PLO.

 

[Poker Zombie]

Tournaments. If I am getting crushed, I can start drinking. It automatically changes my playstyle, and I don't risk donking off more than I'm already out.

Plus who can have a bad day while inebriated?

 

[ledge4131]

Do you like to play tournaments or cash games?
Why do you prefer one over the other?
Do you have any rituals or "good luck charms" that you use?

I prefer tournaments. Bigger field = bigger challenge IMO. I like the challenge of having to adapt and observe on the fly. I believe that it forces me to stay sharp and observant to what's is going on at the table.

My cash game skills are horrible. If I play cash, I'll play with friends during a football or hockey game.

I should've mentioned that my preferences differ between live and online.

I prefer playing cash if I'm going to play a live game. I've had much more success in live cash games than online. When it comes to tournaments though I prefer playing those online. I'll definitely jump into a live tournament whenever I have the chance though.

I prefer live tournaments. Online, I find my concentration wandering to other things. I like the convenience of online for a quick MTT session though. Cash; even though it's infrequent, is aways live.

No good luck charms, but I always have a bowl of beans and wieners before I go to the casino. If I have a bad run of cards, I execute plan B and clear the table with the aroma ...

 

[RushelHilton]

I prefer Cash.......
Only when I am confident to play. Otherwise, it requires much skills to survive.

 

[Anthony Martino]

I prefer cash over tournaments, and mixed fixed-limit games generally (Omaha hi/lo, Stud hi/lo, Razz, Badugi, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball)

Now, if I could afford to regularly buyin to 10K televised tournaments I might think differently because I'm sure those are quite the spectacle.

 

[chipjoker]

I really like live CASH no limit holdem, I try to play twice a month. I feel I get more bang for my buck, and what @DrStrange said..
I do want to add in PLO at some point in my home game.

I do play a small 9 handed $20 buy in Tournament for fun, but I feel like its a coin toss, (Although I placed 2nd this last Friday , Fourth time at this tourney and the second time I played I got 1st...not too bad).

I also host 2 to 3 Fund raiser Tourney's a year, and I dont get to REALLY play in those..

 

[pltrgyst]

Anything except wild card games. Cash, or tournaments no longer than one day. Though I think I have more of an edge over the field in stud games...

 

[Psypher1000]

In order of preference...

1. Cash
2. Cash
3. Cash
4. SnG
5. Multi-table tournament

I don't play online, partly because of legality, partly because of the speed of play, partly because I can't see people's faces/physical tendencies, but mostly because poker to me is about the social engagement. Playing online isn't terribly conducive to that.

I prefer social cash games because it's face to face and eliminates the speed aspect. It's not like I tank regularly...hardly at all, in fact. It's just that if we're constantly burying our heads in the cards then we're not really hangin' out. Might as well be strangers. If I'm playing a tournament, I prefer SnG's. A few hours and done. Beyond that it becomes a grind to me, thus the multi-table tournaments are *usually* not my thing at all, and I've only ever played in three.

I prefer micro- and low-stakes games, and wouldn't be comfortable playing at anything above $1/$2 NL - and even that's a mild stretch for me. As I tell my friends, I like to game rather than gamble, and I'm a bit too tight-fisted for $2/$5 to be considered gaming still. My sweet spots are probably $.25/.$25 NL and $.50/$1 limit.

I like most kinds of poker. Not a huge fan of BaduXXi, though; and acey-ducey isn't poker at all. Wilds? Fine. Circus games? If you can teach it and you showdown the normal 5-carded poker hands at the end, I'll play it. Same game all session long? As long as it's not NLHE all day every day, I'm good.

No good luck charms here. No superstitions. I do have a couple of personal rules, though. First is simply that I don't wear sunglasses while playing. If I feel like I *need* to do that, then I'm very likely either taking the game to seriously, or need to work on controlling my physical responses to the games I play, or both. The other is that either I or Show'em chips can be in a game, but not both. If you want to see my cards, let your betting force me to show you. Otherwise, get to steppin'. Other than cheating, that's my #1 no-no at the poker table.

 

[MoscowRadio]

I take everything I said back. I like the 200NL games at Bovada.

I understand what you mean about MTTs @Psypher1000. They are a grind, but I like it. I used to do a lot of painting and drawing, and it's comparable to that in a way for me. You're not worried about anything but what's in front of you. The MTTs are more of a practice in discipline for me. It does get long and it does get tiring at times, but it's been paying off. My online results are WAY better than they were a year ago.