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Message: [QUOTE="ChrisFoxWallace, post: 6217090, member: 474011"] I don't play online as often as I used to. Online was how I made my living for years and also how I got my start in mixed games, but I haven't considered it a big portion of my income since Black Friday. I do play some on WSOP.com these days, a few tournaments here and there and O/8 and Stud/8 games. The O/8 games from $5/10 to $30/60 have been pretty good lately. The money just isn't as good for me online as it used to be, though the games on WSOP are definitely better than they were a couple years ago. I really miss the days when the money was good online and I could just make a living from home. I'm primarily a cash player. Tournaments are a ton of fun, but the ups and downs are so long that I have trouble trusting tournament poker to pay my bills. Cash games have also been a much better hourly rate for me over the years, and since I play to pay the bills, I play mostly cash. I think cash game play is really about staying sharp, at least for me. Tournaments keep me interested, but cash games, especially holdem, can be really boring. And I'm such a social person that I end up in conversations and not paying attention to the game well enough when I get bored. Being able to play a deep stack is really important in cash games, while short stack to mid-stack play is more important in tournaments. And the mentality is different too. You can't just get up and take a walk every time you get frustrated in a tournament. You can't take breaks or leave when the table is tough either, you have to stick it out. In cash games I think game selection and only playing when you are at your best is important. Tournaments require a real mental toughness and the ability to play well even when you are at a tough table, running bad, frustrated, hungry, whatever, because you can't leave. Tournament fields below $1,000 are definitely very soft compared to cash games at a similar level. And online is way tougher than live. [/QUOTE]

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