I have to disagree a little in that I think there is enough relevance between the two games that learning both can be useful. As I play both cash and SnGs, I feel that I have an edge vs other regs at 50+bb stacks at sngs, and I also deal with short stacks much much better at cash games, and, with today's game selection, you'll have to play short stacks a lot to get action.
In short, Chinz is right, each variation will help your ability somewhat, and if you want to play cash, play cash, if you want to play husngs, play that, but I think these two games have a significant amount of overlapping skills, and it's okay to play both games for money. There's nothing wrong about waiting for action on a cash table while playing huSnGs. In fact being a good HUSnG player has a lot of noticing stack death and dynamic, so it would in fact not be confusing at all if you p
played both at the same time.
That's one advantage, I believe, to SnGs. It's much easier to get action at HUSnGs at equivalent stakes than at HUCash, especially if you check out the tables lined up with regs on stars and FTP. I wouldn't say 50~ level is same as 100NL, but it's slightly less. HUSnGs overall allow you to get more volume in, imo.
As for shove fold, as Chinz pointed out, there are some very good high stakes players whose edges vs other regs (they almost constantly are forced to play weak regs and not just total fish at their stakes) are at the 15-25bb stacks. Surely if that's the case, short stacks can't possibly be considered the most skill-free part of the game?
The edges are small and sometimes difficult to see, but the more you play, the more you realize that these stack sizes are essentially easy money if you are good at it, as some regs, even, are terrible at these stack sizes, especially as you widen your range significantly, since it's such an awkward stacksize to play at.
So my suggestion? Try both, play both if you like both. You don't need to specialize one at the micro-small stakes. Maybe once you've gotten a lot of experience, and want to move up to the mid stakes, the 200s and the 2/4 stakes, for instance, you will want to focus, but at the lower stakes it doesn't really matter. Also, from what I can see from your posts, you're probably ready for 50NL HU. You seem to have a decent grasp on poker concepts, and you've said that you've had decent success at HUSnGs. If you truly want to play HUCash, go ahead, do it. I'd be the first one to sway you into playing HUSnGs, but the fact is that you're ready for both, so don't let "oh the stakes are too high, I won't be able to cope with the variance" to hold you back. Give yourself a 3 BI stop loss, and give it a shot if you want, but keep playing HUSnGs too =P
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The general idea is sit first and regs will not sit you. At the 10-20 level you don't have to worry about regs. They all suck, and a fair amount of them suck even at the 50s or 100s, but certainly at <20~ just sit whoever. You may want to get sharkscope in the future and take good notes. That way if a good player sits you will see his note in the lobby. Color code it, of course.
As for speeds, turbos on FTP are really fast and I am not a fan of playing too much of it. I play turbos on stars and regs on FTP mostly. Turbos allow for very high hourly because matches last something like 4 minutes for some players.
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