[Papi Shasho]

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This is terrible bankroll management and the root cause of going busto with your online roll. There was no need to do this. Play at a level where you are adequately bankrolled - always.

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Yeah, I knew I definitely made a mistake there, it was just the adrenaline rush of having so much money on the table at once, knowing full well I can lose it all in one hand, which I did.

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In most live games, especially at 1/2, loose = lose. Stay tight. Watch your position. Play good hands fast. Bluff the better players, especially those who are weak-tight, but don't bluff the "bad" players or the calling stations (which will be most players). Don't play dominated aces in EP for a raise, or in a raised pot OOP. Etc.

Tournaments with rapid blind increases and/or short starting stacks, especially sit-n-gos, reward loose aggressive play as the blinds increase rapidly. That's probably why you've done so well there. Guys who are too tight tend to get blinded out waiting for a big hand.

My guess is that you think you are "tight" in cash games, but you're really a mediocre LAG by cash game standards.

As for playing live sit-n-go's for a living, I remember reading somewhere that the rake that casinos take makes it very hard to make money at those live games. I'm not sure if that's true. You might do better in daily low-buyin tournaments that have a decent return on investment when you make it into the money.

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I actually am pretty tight in cash games, and I might not be that bad at them, I just have way too small a sample to really say for sure. I've maybe only played like 4 cash games live EVER. I really only stick to tournaments. In cash games, I'll wait for big hands, then start attacking the limpers and calling stations and get paid big.

My problem has come with the coolers (I flop a set of kings on an A5K board and the other guy flops set of aces, can't get away) and stuff like that, but I usually build up my buyin to like 1.5x before I come into one of these hands.