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Having read your post I'm not really in disagreement with anything you say in particular, I did wrongly assume that when you referred to playing hands, only every 30 mins or so, you were limiting yourself but I'd made that assumption of 6 seat tables, in which case the button would have passed you on several more occasions than on a nine so thats a fair point you raise.
However I think you've also been a little been assumptive in thinking that I'm a SNG only player, I'm a regular at DTD on the cash tables playing the £1/£2 level. (This might not sound much to those not aware of the venue but those in the know will be aware of just what sort of pot sizes that can be)
Regarding DTD you might struggle to find a £5/£10 action on hold em as the usual high rollers table is £5/5 dealers choice. Don't let the relative low blinds be deceptive you're going to need a minimum of £2/3k cash to buy in mid week and upto £5k to get a seat at a festival weekend. You can contact Simon Trumper though and I'm sure he can get something put together for you.
We've got a away from the point a little which is does Sharkscope give you an idea of the quality of the player your against?, I would say yes for 99% people. Although clearly your not in the 99%!. However if your interested in having a bit of fun, I'd like to chuck a challenge down to you to prove my point that a winning player at one format is a winner at another.
The challenge is I'd like you to register for three DYM SNG at any level upto £11, I'm confident that as cash player of your level you will win at least 2 out of three which would be the sort of form you'd need to make them pay over the long term. I'll then match what ever you win and I suggest we make a donation of the winnings and my matched contribution to Help for Heroes?
But I also once managed 11 consecutive losses.
Poker is a game of form and confidence.
Nice fish
I think you reading too much into what was glip theoretical remark about the 'failing to see'.
I think this debate has got to the point where I'm not really in that much of disagreement with you on your personnel view as I'm trying to use a general rule of thumb or holistic generalisation of typical players.
We could go off into an entirely different theoretical argument and debates as to whether you calculation allows for you failing to win a couple of times in a row that you do get involved to variance but frankly that would be the start of a book.
I manage to get 20 dym on the bounce one time on Omaha ,
16 was my best on nlh dym,
one needs to get 24 on the bounce to get on the top twenty leaderboard on
sharkscope.
28 is the best recorded in sharkscope .
If you are playing cash properly within your BR, there is no time pressure on you. Also there is generally not the same variance in the stacksizes as in a tourny. Therefore you can sit with the same players, build an image, and look for leaks in their games. These are skills I am still learning, and also developing the patience to use them.
In tournies the players at your table can change quicker, and opportunities arise due to the varying stack sizes. Different pressures can be applied when you cant reload. And as the field reduces and the average stacksize goes up, you have to exploit some of these chances irrespective of your cards, in order to stay competitive. And in the later stages, the bubble brings its own pressures and opportunities. When the blinds rise high against the stack sizes, players are forced to make moves you would not see at any cash table.
DYM sit and goes are different again. Because there is a finite number of chips on the table, there is no need to look to double up or greatly increase your chips, other than to keep it above the average as players are lost. The successful players are those who put their stack at risk the least, and generally win pots without going to a showdown. There is less reward for aggression, more for patience and awareness of relative stacks and where the button is.
I have more than once "won " a DYM without making a bet. The main problem with making money at DYMs is the rake, you have to win 7 out of 10 to show a small profit.
But three totally different sets of skills for the three formats.
The comparison between cash and DYMs is nowhere near that clear cut.
You are assuming that cash games work on the basis that you only play one pot every n hands and that you get all your cash in and either win or lose.
What is much more likely to happen is that you will play multiple pots, each of which will be subject to rake. Therefore the overall rake in a cash game will be considerably larger than you suggest.
Apologies if that is how you actually play your cash games.
It's all a matter of your perceived edge over the cash table and your expectation of how long (i.e. how many pots) it would take you to double up. You also need to factor in the level that you are playing due to the capping of the rake. We can throw some numbers about, if you like. They might prove interesting to some people but they will be a bit "involved", I suspect.