Cash Games it is

After losing two $50+5 STT S&Gs in fourth place, I decided to mix it up and play at a cash table. It seems I have to lose $30-40 before I become actively involved (mentally). I ended up making back the initial $40 I lost + $110 I lost from the tourneys + about $250 more! I was in the zone at a 6 person .50/1.00 table. If I wasn't so greedy I'd have about $60 more from not reraising when I had the nut straight and there was a pair out there. (of course he had the boat on riv) I did well picking out my victims, isolating them, and picking them apart.

I find cash games are better than tourneys in several areas.

1. Cash games have less overall luck involved. In the STTs, the blinds get so massive with 3-5 people left, you're required to go all-in repeatedly in a sort of round-robin fashion until the end. This translates into you HAVE to get hands in the endgame, and they HAVE to hold up (whether or not they are beat, i.e. you get 88 raise to 3x BB making you pot committed and someone wakes up with AK, AQ, AJ, AT, or any pair and you end up winning).

2. In STT you can play great for 45 minutes and then be put in spots dictated by the blinds where your forced to put your money in and go out in 4th or 5th - Losing $55. Where in a cash game if you play great for 45 min you could be up $50-$150 and your play isn't forced by the blinds. So, if you lose a couple big hands your back down to +$50 or even. Using my gorrilla math, that's atleast a $50-$100 difference. As you can tell there is a lot of easy money to be made in the STT, but I believe there is a much bigger luck factor involved after the initial 30 min.

Ending Bankroll: $1,700.00