Are you a Tournament player or cash game player?

#1 June 20th, 2017, 7:48 PM

I'm a tournament player, I consider myself skilled at the game through years of practice. In my opinion tournament play is completely different and has to be played differently. What's ur thoughts?

#2 June 20th, 2017, 10:37 PM

Yes I agree with you , I do better in tournaments than cash game , I'm so bad in cash

#3 June 20th, 2017, 10:48 PM

LOL. How about to rename this thread to "Tournament players complains about their bad luck in cash games"? Are you a Tournament player or cash game player?

Are you a Tournament player or cash game player?

Well i am a tournament player too. (Better said SNG-player tho.) And i am suck at cash games as well, so i try to keeping myself from playing it. Are you a Tournament player or cash game player?

But it's alright, you know. You just can't play everything good. (Except if your name is Phil Ivey.. Are you a Tournament player or cash game player?

) So just leave it and get even better at what you are already not bad! That's my IMHO.

#4 June 20th, 2017, 11:15 PM

Yeah all comments are interesting for me thanks

#5 June 22nd, 2017, 4:06 AM

I'm a tournament player,
I can play cash, but I really do not like it.

#6 June 22nd, 2017, 9:31 AM

It's not for everyone

#7 June 22nd, 2017, 10:15 AM

Tournament player only as they are more safer. Cash games usually many people play same tables every day. And know each others style.

#8 June 22nd, 2017, 1:30 PM

I play both, I make more money in cash games these days tho

#9 June 22nd, 2017, 1:41 PM

Are you a Tournament player or cash game player?

To be a successful online cash player you need a very strong understanding of fundamentally sound poker. Online is a very tough cash environment.

I am saying all of this to say that I am an online tourney player and a "live" cash game player. I respect all types of poker players. I know "cash" players like to put down tourney players but I feel it takes work to be profitable at your favorite type of game.

#10 June 22nd, 2017, 2:06 PM

i prefer cash game, cause to win at playing tournaments needs more skills, patients and times.

#11 June 22nd, 2017, 2:24 PM

I enjoy and play both cash games and tournaments. However I much prefer the structure and variety of tournaments so I like to sit down and play several tournaments throughout a day when I can over playing cash.

#12 June 22nd, 2017, 5:15 PM

Depends on if I have time, SNG's are what I'm alright at. The 1 thing with MTT's is that I've finished in the top 100 hundreds of times. I very rarely Make a final table, compared to the amount of times I've ran deep. And 50 of those times are top 30 finishes.

#13 June 22nd, 2017, 5:32 PM

MTTs and SNG!

#14 June 22nd, 2017, 5:53 PM

I like to play more in tournaments. N also play a zoom

#15 June 22nd, 2017, 6:09 PM

MTT or SNG, because they have stages that you need to keep passing, early stage, the mid game/bubble and the final table.

#16 June 22nd, 2017, 7:19 PM

I usually play both types, but I identify with tournaments. I only usually venture into cash.

#17 June 22nd, 2017, 8:41 PM

Jsnake716 that's a good comment, never underestimate your opponents even if they are not as experienced as you are

#18 June 22nd, 2017, 8:54 PM

In the cash game, you just need to be more disciplined, and in tournaments there is still a greater percentage of luck

#19 June 22nd, 2017, 9:33 PM

Completely different styles of play

#20 June 25th, 2017, 7:07 PM

I play poker for more then 10 years and I'm 90% cash-game player. I like to learn my opponents, so I rarely change tables. I can sit from 1 hour and up to 2 days.
About tournaments, I played a lot, but I don't know why I.m as good at cash and same time bad at tourneys

#21 June 25th, 2017, 11:21 PM

I've always preferred cash games, but these days I'm almost strictly playing MTTs. If I could easily quit playing cash games during a session (especially if I was winning), I'd be strictly cash. I feel like I've never had a profitable session though because I can play as long as the game's running. So my sessions will always start good, and slowly I play bad and start giving it all back and some.

#22 June 26th, 2017, 6:18 AM

I focused on tournament play for years but it's been mostly cash tables for the past 3yrs. (or more?) mostly live but also some online micro/low stakes stuff. I tell myself I will play tournaments again at some point but it hasn't happened yet, lol.
I believe you will find more poorly playing players (a.k.a. donks, fish, etc.) playing in tournaments,... especially micro stakes online.

#23 September 27th, 2017, 9:47 PM

Originally Posted by Poker Orifice

I focused on tournament play for years but it's been mostly cash tables for the past 3yrs. (or more?) mostly live but also some online micro/low stakes stuff. I tell myself I will play tournaments again at some point but it hasn't happened yet, lol.
I believe you will find more poorly playing players (a.k.a. donks, fish, etc.) playing in tournaments,... especially micro stakes online.

Yes I agree

#24 November 12th, 2017, 11:16 AM

I consider myself a micro cash game player, of course tournaments are great but cash games have been more profitable for me than tournaments so I consider myself more of a cash game player...

#25 November 12th, 2017, 11:57 AM

I play a lot of tournaments, knock-out and MTT -------- SNG - Spin and Go - freerolls I like tournament games, but sometimes I go play for an hour in the cash game to distract and relax from the tournament game, because which is very exhausting in the tournament to play for 3 -4 hours or more and takes a lot of time!

#26 November 12th, 2017, 12:31 PM

I play tournaments and I also play cash tables ... but if I have to choose one it would be the tournaments .... the reason why I play cash table is because sometimes the tournaments are very slow and long and that is a bit boring. .. so I play a cash table simultaneously and so I see more action ...!

#27 June 13th, 2018, 5:45 AM

I agree- I've always prefered tournament poker for the different strategy involved.

#28 June 13th, 2018, 6:38 AM

Tournament player

#29 June 15th, 2018, 3:35 AM

I like tournaments. I think it is because if you made a mistake and your whole bankroll wasn't involved you can recover from it whereas in a cash game it hurts your bottom line immediatly.

I use the cash games to fund the tourneys. For example in a Drunk Donk tourney on ACR I went out in like 98th place (I think). I had 2 rebuys and the addon ($2). So I went to a .2/.5 nlh cash game and won my $2 back.

#30 June 16th, 2018, 12:33 AM

I play tournaments way more than cash games. I don't feel comfortable playing no limit Texas holdem in cash tables, yet I play a lot of Texas holdem tournaments. They're very different from one another.

On the other hand I can play Omaha at both tournaments and cash tables without any issues, especially h/l, which is my favorite game.

#31 June 16th, 2018, 12:41 AM

I like to play both cash and tournament poker. I don't play them that differently. The true difference to me is around the money bubble. I will try to steal some chips at that time because so many low chip players don't want to get bubbled out.

#32 June 16th, 2018, 9:51 PM

Tournament player

#33 August 20th, 2018, 11:21 PM

I play MTTs and Rings. Sometimes I will feel adventurous, and play cash games, but not often.

#34 August 20th, 2018, 11:35 PM

I prefer cash game, in tournaments I'm impatient

#35 August 20th, 2018, 11:37 PM

I play both. My favorite mtt is bounty tournaments because I like to get something back if I don't make it to ITM. If I come up short on a tournament, then I go to cash game(s) to make up my loss.

#36 August 20th, 2018, 11:39 PM

I play both tournaments and cash games. I like tournaments better than cash games though.

#37 August 21st, 2018, 7:03 AM

I personally play cash games mostly because I feel like there is less variance, I can tell sooner whether or not I am losing because I'm playing badly, and cash game poker teaches you how to play poker at its fundamentals. You learn how to play a standard 100BB strategy. Tournament poker seems so situational and complex to me that I feel like I'd need to work my way up to that. However I have heard that generally tournament poker is softer.

#38 August 21st, 2018, 7:16 AM

I started playing tournament and made a small bankroll and now I play both tournaments and cash games.

#39 August 21st, 2018, 7:25 AM

I like to play MTT and Spin&Go, cash game not for me. I like to play long way for good prize and risk only one buy in.

#40 August 21st, 2018, 2:10 PM

I like the idea of loosing just one buy-in if you go out in a tournament vs losing a fair wedge of your bankroll on a bad beat in a cash game.

Cash games just aren't for me.

#41 August 21st, 2018, 2:16 PM

Online I play only tournament
Cash game play just in live poker!

#42 August 21st, 2018, 5:36 PM

Hi.
I play poker every day for 4-6 hours.
I play only in tournaments worth up to two dollars.
I do not play cash games. Unfortunately, I have always lost in cash games.
Good luck.

#43 August 21st, 2018, 6:41 PM

For me it all depends on where I am playing. If its live play I like both cash and tourneys equally. But for some reason when I'm online I couldn't play cash games to save my life. I don't know why, I just always seem to get killed playing cash online. I prefer MTTs or SNGs. I tend to play more SNGs because I have a family and it is hard at times to grind for 6-8 hours where with SNGs I can basically choose how long I play during a session. Plus people play terrible in SNGs. It takes a lot longer to grind up a BR but it just works with my hectic schedule.

#44 August 21st, 2018, 7:00 PM

i am a tournament player cause you have to have some skill to get player to fold preflop or on the flop i can set and wait or play for hrs

#45 August 21st, 2018, 7:04 PM

i am a devoted tournament player, and find over time that playing cash involves alot more patience and can be slow unless you are playing multiple tables. tournament games are king in my world

#46 August 21st, 2018, 7:07 PM

Tournament poker all the way

#47 August 21st, 2018, 11:08 PM

I find it hard to play cash, I do not know why... This is too hard and risky for me... So far... I am into tournaments and SNGs. As far as I know, being good at cash games makes you a stronger tournament player.)

#48 August 21st, 2018, 11:23 PM

I play both in tournaments, I'm better than in money and if you're right, both are completely

#49 August 21st, 2018, 11:46 PM

Highly prefer tournaments. So much more dynamic and nuanced. E.g. I love the dynamics near the bubble--I also tend to be bigger stacked at that point more often than not and I can use that to my advantage. I like that strategies change as the blinds go up, and I adapt to that well. Also it's a journey with a beginning, middle, and end!

Cash games do sort of bore me.

I don't however think cash vs tounery players are technically better than the other. It's just a different game, and I like the commitment to a tourney.

#50 August 22nd, 2018, 12:01 AM

I grew up playing cash. I didn't even know about tournaments until they started putting the WSOP on TV since then I've been hooked. I think the tournament play is just so much more fun.

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