Yeah Komp.
Cash is where its at. All the big TV star types are basically the big tournament winners. However the best players in the world are the guys beating the biggest cash games, not the tournament players. Cash is like the fine wine of poker compared to the buckfast of a 3 dollar turbo freezeout tourney. Theres so much more real poker and card playing in a cash game compared to a tournament. You have to be able to make good post flop decisions (there are almost none of any consequence in a tournament once it gets fairly deep into it). Thin value bets, being able to read your opponents hand, and being able to fold good hands when you think you are beat are all critical to cash game success. This is overall a lot more skillfull than tournaments where its just raise, reraise preflop and who can win the most coinflips etc etc. I do still play the occasionall tourney tho komp when im bored. I dont enter any big ones with any regularity tho. Both me and muse have played a 5k tourney in our time but neither of us cashed
. Ive played a few 500 and 200 ones online and actually had a pretty good record. The 500s were satellites of which i won 2 out of the 3 I entered (when i say won I mean won a seat). The 200s I am a little down on I think. If I do decide to play a tourney on a whim komp I will just open a site and pick the first one available that takes my fancy. Could be as small as 3 dollars could be as much as 200 Ill just take whatevers available and try my best. I have not won an MTT with over a 500 field for over a year online tho.
Jez