Q&A #92: Tournament No-Limit Versus Cash Game No-Limit
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Natcheztoo asked a simple, but important question on the message board.
Okay, I’m lazy. I didn’t go back and look to see if this question had been answered at the beginning of the articles:
Will there be a difference in NL Starting Hand Charts for cash games and tournaments?
If there will be, will it be addressed within the scope of this article.
I only play tournaments, so far, so that is where my focus is concentrated.
He’s referring to the soon-to-be-completed series, Building a No-Limit Hold’em Starting Hand Chart. The short answer to your question is, yes, there’s a big difference between starting hand guidelines in tournaments and cash games, and it’s not really within the scope of the article series.
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Tags: no-limit-holdem, poker, poker-tournaments, starting hands, starting-hand-chart, tournament strategy
I’ve never been into tournaments but I feel like MTTs should be easy if you’re doing fairly well at cash-games, yeah?
I am also somewhat interested in what the variance is like between 20, 50 and 100bb starting stacks in a cash-game?
Obviously if you’re the best player you want to play as deep as possible.
I am thinking hypothetically though, how much lower would your winrate drop with constant variables from 100 to 50bb stacks?
Kind of vague question I guess