Do you prefer cash games or tournies?

If you're like me, you'll take poker however you can get it. However, if you had 3 games to choose from at the same time, which would you pick? Cash game, tourney with no rebuys or a tourney with rebuys?

Although I started with SnG's and Tournaments -Cash games.

Too much time commitment with tournaments.

Cash Game > Freezeout > Rebuy. I effing hate rebuys. You should only get 1 stack of chips. If you lose them you're out.

I prefer tounaments more excitment blinds are always going up antes,cash games kinda boring well at my level not much excitment and re buys have idiots who play stupidly without care cuz they can just buy in back.

Cash. Winrate is higher and stacks are deeper.

Converting a little towards SNGs for the shove/fold play with the wonderful amount of complications caused by ICM and stack sizes, but cash is how I learned poker, it's my best game and the game in which you can earn the most money.

Depends for me....altho i like tourny's you get more perks for playing cash tables at most sites.I would say cash games but truth is i like playing for that number 1 spot!That thing about being number 1 drives me in this game.

I prefer sng and tournaments dont like the re buy if your out your out

Freezout tourney of course tho I tried some cash game nowadays.

Tournys and SnGs. I never do rebuys. Did 1 and didnt like it at all. I will be working on my cash game someday, I do em now and then, but 90%+ of my games are MTT and STT.

I prefer cash games. Although i lost all the winnings i made from freerolls, i do better at cash games. I just have to make some adjustements to my tilting problems. I made 30 dollars with just 2 dollars in 2 days playing 1c/2c, and lost all of it in one hour. I was stupid and i know that u don't have to tell me But i know now how to adjust my game. I made a big announce "Be patient!!!!" and i've put it on the wall.

And the advice i give to all beginners who play at microstakes is to be patient and they will make profit.

I do good in freroll tournaments but i kinda suck at turbo SG. I do not know why. At freeroll tournaments i get in the money 1 of 5-6 times and win the tournament 1 in 30-40 times. At turbo SG i never done better that 40%. Maybe is because i played double or nothing and play too tight. Not the case at headsup where most of the time i overplay my opponents and i think headsup is what i should play from now on when playing turbo SG.

I would love to say Cash games because of the freedom of time. However I hate to admit it but I'm just not very good at cash games.

Ill put my vote in for tourney's. Either SnG's or MTTs. But not the Re-buys, they're too much like freerolls with the way people play.

Bastard, but since that was left out of the poll definitely cash games, I suck at tourney.

cash games cause i can leave when i want.

I occasionally play cash games when waiting for a tourney to start or when I know I only have a little time to play a few hands... but don't seem to be able to do to well. Playing mainly the micro stakes at the moment until I build a sizeable BR, there are just as many donks playing at that level as there are in the (non-CC) freerolls!! Plus, even though it's only micro stakes to enter a hand, there is always some jerk on there who shoves all-in with his ($5-10ish) stack to push the small stacks off the pot.

I hate rebuy's... it seems that if you bust out then a simple way to pay back into the game exists. Only those with a decent BR to start with can afford the numerous rebuy's, as well as the tourney fee.

For me, Freezeout Tourney's are where it's at... lot's of poker for a small buy-in. I don't have to worry about losing a great deal of my money each hand, which is psychologically a big asset. I know that tourney's produce more variance and it's harder to win at them, but since I got into poker by watching Late Night and WSOP shows, where else can I get practice for the WSOP?

Martin Luther King once had a dream... and I do too!

I preafer cash games than tournies because cash games instant and quick results......

I only play micro cash, Slow and patient

Lazmansa

i like to play tournys with no re buys i dont really like to play cash games i always seem to lose money there

Same for me, I wish I was good at cash... I just can't deal with putting money up like that lol... 1 dollar for a tournament, then you use the chipstack they give you to turn that dollar into more... less risk less return, but I'm way better at tourney than cash (But thats not saying much lol.)

i will play all 3 they all have what i want and that is cash ....rebuys you just have to play smart till the rebuys are over with and besides it is just more money for you to win

Personally I have had more luck in tournys but prefer to play cash games though.

Cash games all day for me. Tournaments just seem to drag on and on for me.

I prefer tournaments for the pure fact that there is a goal of some sort.

I like a good tourney if the payouts are reasonable but shorthanded cash games are my favorite.

I like the tourney route. I just find I get too bored with the cash games. It might be just me but I prefer the long buildup to the final table.

I'd like poker......
Cash game or tournament can be bouth. Rebuy on tour is good i think if your hand was very good just enemy got little percent and you out of tour.
I am of course rebuy.
3-5 rebuy and 1 addon in break is avarage.

Cash games are more profitable and you can earn more rake points on most sites. Tourny's are more about the competition (And usually a way bigger payout). As far as rebuys go I hate em

+1. Rebuys suck. You can donk your chips off and then throw more money at the tourney and win. I play tourneys and cash games. When I don't have time or have been losing at tourneys I hit the cash table.

If I could play cash games and win the would be my favorite, but I've never had continued success playing in cash games. Right now I juts play low level SnG and Tournies. Maybe when I can build up a bigger bank roll I'll go back and practice my cash game,.

That's an easy one...CASH! Although in real life I'd prefer the 2 table tourneys because there are the reading skills involved and I like competition, In online poker the win rate is much higher(and quicker) in cash games...
Rebuy tourneys is a joke!I don't believe in it!

My man I used to be unpatient at cash games thinking that i'll go frop 10 dollars to 1k in several days) But poker is not like that. Sometimes i only make 1 dollar playing 4 hours at microstakes. Slowly but surely my bankroll is growing i i think yours too.

100 dollars in one mounth for a beginner at microstakes is the best . U have to be lucky to grow up faster.
I think good SG players can make more money at 2.4 $ SG that a player at microstakes. And also good turnament players can hit the jackpot once a mounth and don't have to rely on cash games.

I also think old players with experience make money playing tournaments. SG and cash , Holdem or Omaha. I saw players on full tilt playing 200$ or 500 buy-in tournaments, getting in the money once at 7-10 tournaments making in one day more than i make in a year.
Saw same players playing high stackes .

Cash - I don't want to sit for more than 2 hours generally.

i was a tournament player during the early stages of my poker life. when i was able to build a decent BR i tried playing cash game. it was good at start winning about 0.25bb/100hands.. but then there comes the inevitable variance and the huge downswing crippled me hard that i could not bare it. i stopped playing for a while and went back to sng's and tournies. now it will take a while i guess before i get back to playing cash games... lesson learned is if i lose 4bi in a game, STOP!

I like tourneys, because there is a chance for a big payday. Also, I like how you you have a sense of how you did against the field of all other players. You more or less can keep score on how you did by where you finished. As well as, there is a clear goal of finishing first. You get a real sense of accomplishment when you finish first in a tournament that you don't get by playing cash games, even if you win a lot of money playing cash games.

yes and poker is about instant gratification

+1 cash games- because I cry when I lose and the poker gods live off of tears and failure

Freezeout Tourney ...
is more interesting, we may use more technical and intelligence....and
i dont like rebuy , people give all in all time with bad or good cards without logic ....