Cash games?

What cash games do you play in on Poker Stars? Do you regularly make money at them?

Just curious to know where I could find some Ace10 members.

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All of the ace10.com members make tons of money. That is why we are here screwing off all day instead of working like "normal" people.

The best place to find us playing is to go to any tournament in progress and look at the very bottom of the point leaders. We are notorious for making last minute comebacks and lay on the bottom like catfish.

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I pretty much just try to finance my tournament buy-ins by playing cash games.

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My advice is to just play sng Turbo's in that case. Seems like ring games on PS are just a hole to put cash into.

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Wraygun, I pretty much do the same, try to win in cash games to finance tourneys.

Not to sound cocky, but I have been winning pretty regularly at 2/4 limit for a couple of months now, playing just about every night. I started at 1/2 but got sick of so many people seeing flops and one of them sucking out on me so often. I was losing at 1/2 before moving up to 2/4.

Doing what many experts suggest when playing these limits, that is trying to play tight/aggressive sure seems to be working...so far anyway.

The only problem with $2/$4 cash games (ring games) is that if your cash pool is very limited you can take a terrible beating with just one mometary lapse in judgement. Plus, people with stacks of chips that never end can lean all over you and give you ulcers. In fixed amount Turbo sng's you are guaranteed to not lose all of your money in your account in 1 hand. The most you can lose is your entry fee and from my experience if you play very tight poker for the first 4 levels of blinds you will be around when the table is down to 6 players instead of 9. Most people in Turbo's tend to panic if they don't get a hand in the first 10 minutes and start doing dumb shit. I have found that I can wait for my cards and sometimes I have to wait until the blinds get up to $200 before that happens. Sometimes I never get a hand and just lose. But, at least I am not taking myself out of the money by prematurely playing crap hands.

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Ace maybe you missed it, I was referring to 2/4 limit games. NO WAY would I play 2/4 no limit...or even 50c/$1, cause of the very reasons you mention. As much as I love no-limit tourney style play, I am not comfortbale at all with no-limit for "actual" money.

Personally I don't worry too much about player's stack sizes in limit games, it's really irrelevant. Often the bigger the amount they bring in, the worse they are anyway. Plus they can't make it more than 2 or 4 bucks more on any one bet no matter what they have on the table.

Now if I suspect a few players bought in for $100 and have a lot more than that on the table, then I know I am in a tough game. But if there are only one or two players in the game that I know are excellent, that doesn't stop me. I just gotta be wary of them.

Frankly - and maybe I am sadly mistaken - in low-limit games, it's the cards much more than the players that matters. 10/20 limit or up, that's a different story. Not that easy to bluff for only a couple of bucks though. If I stick to being tight but putting the bucks in when I think I have the best of it, I will take my chances. Sure, you can get reamed...but it will take more than just a few hands for that to happen in limit.

The way you describe playing S&G's is pretty much what I try to do also, good advice there. Many, many times I just sit and watch others take each other out early and thin the field. I've made the final table of many an 18 player S&G (my preference, low buy in ones though) plenty of times while just hanging around pretty much and only winning a small pot or two. Then the real poker starts. Even then you can bide your time somewhat. I've found in low buy-in 18 player S&G's players are even more anxious to build a stack than they are in 6 or 9 player ones, that's why I like them, there seems to be more dead money in them. And although your odds are less of cashing in an 18 player S&G, a couple of 1sts or 2nds in those finance a whole lot of other entry fees. In a tournament you're up against it if forced to just hang around, but not in S&G's pretty much.

Yeah, I must have misread you Mule on cash games. Great advice on your post though. Any player new to the game should take it as mandatory reading.

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