Tournament or cash game ?

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I do play both at the microstakes. I won 3 mtt. I like knowing I won something big. I think it helps to play both if you win at both.
 
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I like tournaments more than cash games, tourneys or more fun and exciting to play when you know you want to make it to the final table at least me I feel great after making it so far and wanting to continue to be a better player is the best feeling you can get from a tournament, Than just winning some money at a cash table.
 
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My game is much better suited for tournaments I like to be able to lose a set amount at one time cash games you can go broke very easy with a few bad beats
 
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I really enjoy playing tournament, but there are days that lack patience for long tournaments.
 
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I prefer to play tournaments, try playing cash ever, but I do not like, prefer to play tournaments or sit and go.
 
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Cash vs MTT. What's better?

There is an opinion that the cash game is more difficult than tournaments and the cash player will win the player in mtt, so much depends on your poker skills.
There are pros and cons in this matter, the dispersion in the cache game is minimized and losing one all-in will not affect your completion. In the tournament, any coin will knock you out of the game. And in order to get a big prize you need to take a very high place. In addition, playing cash, you can choose your opponents, while avoiding strong regulars. In the end, it all comes down to how much time you have for the game, you can play cash for no more than 3 hours and make a profit, for mtt you need more than 8 hours every day.

What do you think about it?
 
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There are opinions about everything.

It's difficult to compare cash against MTT in regards to which is 'better' or more difficult because they are very different animals, with their own challenges and pitfalls.

If you think about it, it's less-likely the format that will determine the difficulty and entertainment factors but the given opponents' skills instead.
 
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MTT because then u can win good and you dont lose your money every hand :D

If u got skill to play MTT. And MTT Is more funny and intresting :D
 
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MTT is better, not as stressful..

In cash game, one bad all-in, poof, you're gone. In MTT, not as stressful with some luck in beginning stages, build a reasonable stack. Then pick and choose times to play bigger hands.
That strategy is TAG, but more aggressive tactics are often reasonable.
 
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I started on cash years ago. It was ok, but it was a slow grind with very little excitement. I made about $4500 in 07 from cash. Then I moved to MTTs for all of 08. I made 31k from tourneys. The wins were amazing! Much more exciting and profitable for me.
 
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It is very different to play cash than to play MTT, for me it is more comfortable to play MTT since it does not generate as much pressure for me as a cash game and as MTT is what I play I already have a defined strategy.
But because they are so different, they can not be compared
 
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In my opinion, there are better tournaments (MTTs). I better control and play at MTT tournaments than cash games. At tournaments I feel like at some competition where the goal is to be the first or to enter the top 3. So I look at it from some sporting side. And that's why I prefer MTT.
 
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It's hard to say, in the cache you can lose everything at a time, and in MTT for a few hours the maximum entry fee. For example, while I prefer to play in MTT
 
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MTTs are more strategic because of the ever increasing blinds.
 
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CG is normally the way to build bankroll. If you play the cashgame right, alot of tournament fish will eventually join tables and you can score alot of easy money at the lower stakes. Higher stakes is just skill vs skill so i guess i doesn't matter there (never gotten to the high stakes so can't really speak of it)
 
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the cash game is more technical and the variance is much harder to handle in this format. I stopped playing cash games because I suffered too much loss. I prefer the MTT and especially the espresso because we only play against 2 opponents and with the multiplier if we're lucky. We can mount his banckroll more easily.
 
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By mtt you mean crap shooting, right?
Cash all the way. Although having a deep run at mtt comes at top. Mtt work fine as break from cash games.
 
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MTT VS Cash?

In a tournament, your loss is limited to your buy in. Luck becomes a bigger factor in tournament play because of the ever increasing blinds forcing the action and play. In a cash game the SB and BB is what it will cost every 9 or 10 or 6 hands depending on what u r playing. It is possible to lose a lot of $ quickly in a no limit cash game.
 
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I think it is better to play those games, where exactly you show the best result of the game and win more money.
 
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The big advantage of cash games is, that they are so flexible. You can come and go, as you like, whereas with tournaments you are stuck with them, until you bust or win, which might be after 10 minutes or 9 hours. Not at all practical, if you came home from work, finished dinner and like to play some poker before going to sleep.

Cash games can also be said to be the most true form of poker, and typical cash stacks of 100 BB leave a lot of room for turn and river play. In tournaments on the other hand stacks tend to quickly get short taking away some complexity and leverage points. This can be an advantage for beginners though, since they are less prone to make mistakes like taking an overpair to far in a short stacked environment.

Cash games can also get a bit boring after a while, since its basically always the same. Tournaments offer more variation, because you have early, middle and late stage, changing stack sizes and a lot of strategic (ICM) considerations to make. And you have the excitement of a huge home-run potential, which cash games dont offer.

Tournaments can however also be frustrating, because big cashes are so far between, and so often you play for hours just only to bust before the money or before the final table and the really big prices. The chance of having a winning session is much higher with cash games, but losses can also be more catastrophic, especially if you go on tilt and dont use some kind of stop loss.

Players will tilt issues are a bit more protected in tournaments, and for net depositing players its more easy to make a poker budget, because they know in advance, exactly what a session is going to cost them. If you want to play a big 11$ sunday tournament on Stars, you can in principle just dig out your credit card, deposit 11$ and play. And if you dont cash, you do the same thing for your next session. You dont even need to have money permanently in your poker account.
 
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I think cash game is better

I think cash game is better. I really like both cash games and MTT but for me cash is the best and of course I like MTT I have so much fun when I play them but I guess I'm better with cash and I play MTT when a friend tell me about a really good tournament and we play the same tournamet and see who is better but just for fun and if we can get some money much better.
 
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I play an average of 3-4 hours a day and I prefer tournaments MTT. Regular tournaments are the most profitable for me so I do not actually play cash games.
 
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MTT is better for me. In cash games most people wait for really good hands to play and bad beats are frequent. You can loose much more money on cash if you tilt and start throwing more and more chips in the game. In MTT the most you can loose is your buyin and raising blinds force people to play instead of just waitig for big hands. MTT is much more interesting for me.
 
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Personally, for me, the best option is freerolls. I can not play cash games, because I always lose money in them.
 
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MTT is better for me. Dont like cash games lol
 
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