I have constantly been amazed at how badly the tournament players play in live games. I understand that it is a completely different game. It is just not poker. Put your money on the table and play, later we will count up and see who wins. When I read about the tourneys and their deals at the final table, their fears of losing makes me wish they were sitting at my table in a live game.
Fear is the destroyer.
Read over the world series and read who didn't make deals. I am sorry to rant about tournaments but it my feeling that it is not doing poker any good in the short run. There is less live money going around. And a lot of that money is lost from the poker world for good. I just wish there were far less tournaments and more players in live games to move up and down and keep the live game, the back bone of poker, alive.