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I can't even imagine our local poker scene right now. Wow, wow, and another wow! The game we love playing just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
There's a big tourney every single week, tons of home games being set up in every baranggay possible, plus the fact that most of the players are now appreciating the cash games. The latter is a real factor for me to increase the popularity of the game in our town.
Poker is poker, that's the way I see it. I'll play a tournament or a cash game with the same approach because I like playing poker. I can understand why tournament stlye is more popular here, it'sw because of the tv exposure it got. Let's face it, most of us learned about the game by watching the WPT events being aired by Sports Plus. People started trying to do a 'Gus Hansen' with their home games, tyring to do some crazy plays and the whole shebang, I enjoy doing this especially when playing for fun with friends. Unfortunately, the ol' cash game got a bad image for some unkown reason. Myabe because most of us viewed it as gambling and not playing the game anymore.
At first I shared the same view, but as I kept on playing, slowly realizing that poker is indeed a skill game. So I give it a shot, and guess what, it's exactly the same. At the end of the day, the better player will end up with most of the chips, the guys who has tremendous amount of self control will come out on top, and the fu@#*&$ gambler will lose all his money.
Yeah, to some extent it is gambling, but so are house games. Right now, our town has house games with buy ins ranging from 100 - 2000 pseos, you can spend that much money on cash games, have the chance to play as long or as short, and lose or win more as a house game. My point is, it's the same guys. If you dont' like playing cash games, it alright, i just hope no one bad mouths the cash games, coz it's still poker.
If your approach to poker is sound and good, you'll be ok i guarantee it. However, if your approach to poker is similar to your apporach to lotto or any other chance game, you'll lose your money.
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The idea of cash games didnt actually appeal to me at first because of the "gambling" aspect. AT first, i thought poker should be "fun", and home game tourneys are perfect for that purpose. Play for a whole night and risk only a little amount and maybe even win the pot. besides, there's more of a sport aspect in tourney style play.
but after i played several cash games, damn, i now understood. Cash games are where you grind it out. you actually make money! Tourneys are fun yes, i love playing them, but the cash game is where the the time spent is actually worth it, like on a per hour basis, if you know what i mean. It's actually like a job. You grind it out, play your game, and actually make money. Poker is about having fun, yes, but it is ultimately, for the serious player, about making money.
Or maybe i'm just saying this because ive had an uncanny cash game winning percentage. hehe. ive only played maybe a dozen cash games as of now (but soon not anymore, thanks to the badabing club hehe) and ive only lost in one of them. I've made about P200 per hour of play, and i've logged in maybe about 30 hours?
i've lost a LOT more money playing home tourneys than playing the cash game!
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