Time to start over --- Need Advice!

[Robb]

Here's another question. I actually feel like my tournament skills are better than anything else I do, do you feel I can play tournies along with cash games and still learn what I need to or should I concentrate on one or the other? If I play tournaments, what level should I start at safely with a $500 BR (I'm thinking nothing above a $11BI)? I have actually won many tournaments and regularly get ITM regardless if I win or not.

If you're talking about one-table SNGs, then a $500 BR would support playing tourneys around the $11 level. If you're playing MTTs, I'd want at least 100 buyins because of the higher variance, so I'd play around the $3-$5 level.

IMO you can play tourneys and cash, just don't play them simultaneously as the mindset required for each is quite different.

Good advice, there. I enjoy playing a lot of different poker games and formats: stud, omaha, SnG's, MTT's, pot-limit tourneys, O8b. But NLH cash games are where I know I'm a winner. So I occassionally earmark some "play" money, and buy into micro limit games or tourneys I enjoy. But I try to keep at least 80% of my time and 95% of my br focused on grinding at the game and format where I know I win.