Cash Game Player Playing Main Event

[rainonacongadrum]

I've been playing cash games for two years or so and now play high stakes. I've played probably 6 MTT's lifetime and I've gotten top 5 in 3 of them...so I think I'm probably instinctually good at tourney's. Really, is there anything I need to learn that I haven't already learned playing cash games? I'd like to hone up on any tourney skills I might be lacking before I play the Main Event.

[wulfpacker21]

this is really general but you can be a good poker player but you have to have tournament knowledge and structure and the stages of a tournament on how you should play and stuff

[SuperUberBob]

Tournament poker and cash poker are almost two different beasts. To be a good tournament player, you have to invest as much time into tournaments as you would invest into your cash game play.

[FGators]

Online cash games prepare you better for a deep structure like the main event. The main event has a nice, slow structure that enables a lot of play. There's room to take flops and play three streets.

When playing a deep stack pot control becomes a lot more important. You won't be rushing to jam it in because you have top pair, top kicker.

You'll play hands a bit different as well. Leading flops where your opponent isn't pot committed like a Stars freezeout where a continuation bet pot commits him is an example.

Check out the Anthology for more on this type of stuff.

[MJBuddy]

Read TPFAP. The entire book is designed around transitioning from Cash game play to MTT play and the theories needed to be adopted. If you're a HS player, its cost is really inconsequential.