When you have learned to play situations like the cards and the player together with shorthanded and longhanded it’s time to look at the different forms of Texas hold’em. You are perhaps familiar with the concept of cash game, but here I’m hope to give some tips that can improve your results in this sort of game.
The psychological range
Cash game is a game about money, but even more, a game with money. In a cash game you must be able to play relaxed on the same time that you must be ready to bet everything you have of chips in front of you if you feel the odds are right.
This is true especially concerning no limit. In limit cash game the bets in relation with your own chips aren’t this high. Therefore the tendency is that your stack doesn’t feel the same strong up and downs as in no limit. In either form though it is the fluctuation of the chips that brings the psychological process all players struggle with. “I must come back on plus minus zero.” or: ”Should I stop now then I have won this much?”.
These are some of the everlasting thoughts players experience when they are playing cash game. The present of psychology is inevitable, what you must do is to understand the consequences and overcome the negative influence.
Keep the continuity in your game regardless if you are going plus or minus. Don’t be tempted to create big pots or get into all action the table offer only because you “need” to win back. Remember that it’s not a disaster to end on a negative result for one day – that must happen sooner or later.
The same thing should be practised when you are on a positive result. Then you have no reason to become passive in a way you want to protect your win. It’s all about the long term result and it’s this that will be damaged when you change your play upon external causes.
Preparations
The first thing to consider when you are about to play cash game is how much chips you should bring to the table. This is very important, especially in no limit. If you choose to bring 20 units (1 unit = big blind) to the table you won’t lose more than this, but you can’t win more in one pot either (with lesser exceptions). So if you instead bring 200 units you can of course win more and lose more. This shows that it’s harder to play with bigger amounts of money, but that it gives you more possibilities. The ambitious player will of course choose the latest of the two – you can’t really make profit with 20 units or so on the table.
The next thing is to choose a table where to go with your money. (If you playing on a poker room online you will have plenty to choose from.) Don’t just sit down on a random table, first observe and look for the conditions that suits you. To meet players with small stacks is often preferable, that’s one of the things worth investigating before you sit down on a table. As you go on playing you will soon get your own preferences.
Flexibility
Here is three tips that should be helpful either you play limit, pot limit or no limit.
1) If the board are too difficult change to another table. If you have lost some money don’t get the idea you must win it back on the very same board before changing.
2) If your chips are reduced in a way that you no longer can win big pots or that you have to change playing style because of this, it’s time to refill with more chips (or stop playing).
3) If players have disappeared and it’s just you and one or two more left, once again you should change table. In other cases you will have to pay for the blinds unnecessarily often.
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