Tero
Legend
Loyaler
We might not see it, we might not recognize it, we might not even care, but it's there alright.
What is? The way we and the whole industry feels differently about tournaments.
If we compare the standing that tournaments vs cash games have in poker marketing it is pretty much the same as the situation with No Limit Hold'em vs PLO.
And we take that as normal.
What else would it be since the majority of poker site ambassadors, the big names and the smaller ones on Twitch, are mainly tournament players?
One has to ask are tournaments really that lucrative for the big sites even though some of them struggle to fill the overlays sometimes? Or is marketing still so hung up with old times that they are trying to keep the Moneymaker rags to riches dream alive?
Cash games are definitely in the shadows and no-one is making any favors to it. Keeping them under wraps only helps to maintain the skewed image of smokey degenerate gamblers and sharks that are ready to take you to the cleaners. The "fear" towards cash games is not totally uncalled for but it is overly exaggerated.
Poker life
On a more philosophical note we could view tournaments as an analogy to life itself. We each have our starting stack and what we make of it is mostly up to us. Every decision along the way affects our future successes or failures and sometimes the tournament ends abruptly. But all can play only one game.
Cash games resemble more the individuals that were born into a wealthy family. Cash games require even deeper pockets but if you have that the accidental screw-ups doesn't matter. There is always a clean slate waiting behind the next door.
I claim that our bias towards tournaments is mainly in our heads since we are products of marketing (like it or not).
Even majority of our poker discussions in here revolve mostly around tournaments. We love to chase those tournament unicorns that may not even exist.
But how many of the big names actually made their initial roll in tournaments?
I'm not sure. But I do know that Patrik Antonius grinded his starting roll in cash tables.
Now we have a CC game that awards cash dollars only to be used in cash tables. Let's see that as an opportunity to evolve in our poker lives.
To play cash games you don't need to be rich, just slightly better bankrolled than in tournaments. The biggest obstacle is letting go of fear.
What is? The way we and the whole industry feels differently about tournaments.
If we compare the standing that tournaments vs cash games have in poker marketing it is pretty much the same as the situation with No Limit Hold'em vs PLO.
And we take that as normal.
What else would it be since the majority of poker site ambassadors, the big names and the smaller ones on Twitch, are mainly tournament players?
One has to ask are tournaments really that lucrative for the big sites even though some of them struggle to fill the overlays sometimes? Or is marketing still so hung up with old times that they are trying to keep the Moneymaker rags to riches dream alive?
Cash games are definitely in the shadows and no-one is making any favors to it. Keeping them under wraps only helps to maintain the skewed image of smokey degenerate gamblers and sharks that are ready to take you to the cleaners. The "fear" towards cash games is not totally uncalled for but it is overly exaggerated.
Poker life
On a more philosophical note we could view tournaments as an analogy to life itself. We each have our starting stack and what we make of it is mostly up to us. Every decision along the way affects our future successes or failures and sometimes the tournament ends abruptly. But all can play only one game.
Cash games resemble more the individuals that were born into a wealthy family. Cash games require even deeper pockets but if you have that the accidental screw-ups doesn't matter. There is always a clean slate waiting behind the next door.
I claim that our bias towards tournaments is mainly in our heads since we are products of marketing (like it or not).
Even majority of our poker discussions in here revolve mostly around tournaments. We love to chase those tournament unicorns that may not even exist.
But how many of the big names actually made their initial roll in tournaments?
I'm not sure. But I do know that Patrik Antonius grinded his starting roll in cash tables.
Now we have a CC game that awards cash dollars only to be used in cash tables. Let's see that as an opportunity to evolve in our poker lives.
To play cash games you don't need to be rich, just slightly better bankrolled than in tournaments. The biggest obstacle is letting go of fear.
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