Cash Game or Tournament Player ???

Can someone tell what is the biggest difference in a cash game player or a tournament player? I would like to know what skills seperate the two. Why I ask I came into poker trying to learn cash games while spewing some good money, and now I have relized my kind of aggression is better suited as a tournament player. Maybe I am wrong, need your insight LPers

cash players need to be skillfull and talented, tourney players just need to be lucky morons. cash players have more testicular fortitude than tourney players.

i play tourneys

Actually Robinson I have been watching you as a tourney player. I watched you and Marshall and NeillyAA.

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I think tournament poker is more technical. you play much fewer hands against the same players so you have a lot less reads and since stacks are usually very shallow there's a lot less postflop play.

there is no such thing as an MTT player. It's a habit u need to support by either playing cash games or SNGs.

On February 04 2010 17:58 SfydjkLm wrote: there is no such thing as an MTT player. It's a habit u need to support by either playing cash games or SNGs.

there is such a thing an mtt player, which i think is the hardest to be because if your playing a mtt you have to play for 6+ hours each session.

both sides have pros n cons but basically :

If u need freedom & less luck involved in your sessions - > go for cash games
If u feel like playing 5hrs++ every sess & getting hit extremely hard by variance, however cash in sicker amounts - > go for tournaments

The pure mtt player is a magical human who is more spirit than human. I know of a few pure mtt pros, they are highstake mtt players and they go on -65k swings. Only the most delusional or faithful can go on these downswings and continue playing, that's why I say they are more like a spirit than a human.

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MTT players gotta have a really open schedule, like the 3 rebuy takes 8 hours, so you really need to be up early and register for like 4 hours and then play um all out.. you gotta be able to expect to lose almost every day and know ur gonna hit that big score sometime..

cashgame players gotta deal with tilt more, moving up stakes, i think more stress, dealing with regs all the time, remembering how people played past hands and stuff.. overall takes more focus too because your going to be playing as many tables as you can when your playing cash.. but in cashgames u can just clock out at any time and go grab a beer or soemthing with friends.. tourny players r stuck till everythigns done.

tj cloutier and amarillo slim were tournament beasts during their prime...lol

Thanks Bros !!!!!!!!!

They take a different skillset. What you need in order to be good at MTTs is a great sense of self hatred in order to endure them.

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Cash Game Player



Tournament Player

On February 04 2010 17:45 Oskar_123 wrote: I think tournament poker is more technical.... since stacks are usually very shallow there's a lot less postflop play.

Less postflop play = less technical.

You will definately improve your tournament play by playing cash games and learning how to play after the flop. This is important in the early stages of a tournament when blinds are small relative to stacks.

Cash game strategy got shit to do with tournament strategy. The closest concept they have in common is + ev.
6 max with antes is closest to mtt, or short stacking 6max with antes

fact of matter is, unlessyou are playing cash on super high level or 1 tabling or something. Cash game will make u a worse mtt player if u are not careful.

U are 100bb + deep in cash with no anntes and u can reload when lose. How the he'll does that help u with 10-40 bb poker w/ antes?

On February 05 2010 04:40 woodbrave1 wrote: How the he'll does that help u

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