[MooFrog]

I'm assuming you're talking NL play, if not then this may not apply. Either way, I'm much better at ring games than tournaments, but wouldn't want to play against most of the people on this board in either (so I may be extremely off base), so please correct me if needed.

I mainly play limit, and I found that buying into a bunch of super cheap NL SnGs really helped my limit ring game. I think that playing in ring games (NL as well), favourites lose their disadvantage that they have in tournaments (can't bust out, if you play enough the calls you are making will be worth it). I would play a bunch of super cheap limit ring games, since the price of learning should be very low (I think UltimateBet even has 0.01/0.02 games). Having to play a totally different style than you are used to may bring you an epiphany about your regular game, that you can then translate back. From my experiences the NL SnGs are so much different from what I expected from limit ring games, and thinking in such a new way really brought forward some of the major problems I was injecting into my limit game.

When you play the NL ring games, I would have the odds in front of me, and whatever good info you can find from here. If you already think in terms of tournament chip EV vs. dollar EV for all your hands, realize that anything that is +chip EV now becomes +dollar EV. Seems to me like it plays like a mix of all stages of a tournament. Blind stealing becomes about as important as it would in an early-mid level of a slow tournament, as far as I can tell.

Now hopefully someone will come along, read that rambling mess, and correct me so that you can actually find out what the difference is [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]