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Originally Posted by OngBonga
I think it depends on your own preferences. Many people struggle to keep focus for hours at a time, or just don't have the time to commit so long to a poker session.
And yeah you have to be happy to win $25 for four hours of grinding. It's obviously difficult to make an hourly rate if that's the kind of prize you're usually picking up, and variance is indeed higher in tournaments. The reason for this is you have to dodge a lot more bullets to win a prize... the upshot is that when you do, the prize tends to be much bigger.
Tournament play requires a much deeper level of stamina, patience and discipline. You can play perfectly for three hours, run AK into AA, then make a mistake next hand feeling tilted, and suddenly you went from a 250bb beast who was running over the table to a 20bb shortstack feeling depressed at the size of your stack. You have to be able to take this on the chin, because it happens. Likewise, you can scrape along seemingly folding 95% of our hands, just winning enough to keep up with the blinds, and then step up a gear after bubble to go deep. In fact I think my deepest runs have come from games where I've scraped into the cash.
Cash games, on the other hand, provides flexibility and less variance, which means a more stable hourly rate that suits your daily routine more.
You should ask yourself if you think you have the skills to play long games of tournament poker. Are you patient? That's the most important factor imo. If so, if you're more patient than your villains, more disciplined, then you'll stand a good chance of making more money in the long run.
Do you think $300 to buy $5.50 and $10+1 tournament tickets is enough to start a tourney bankroll? Bear in mind it's all poker points that's the equivalent of $ that is sidelined and not being used anyways? Or would I need closer to 100 buy ins for the stakes of the tourney I want to play? I'd probably rather play the $10,000 $10+!1 GTD's than the $1,000 or $2,000 $5+$.50 tourneys.
I agree with you that patience and discipline is something that's required for going deep into tourneys that is not required for cash game.s
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