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what are some of the differences when playing cash games and tournaments? do you see more questionable flop in tournaments in hoping of catching a big hand a knocking someone out? i would think that you would do this more often from late in a tournament with hands like suited connectors and low to medium pocket pairs. also would you play more aggressively in a tournament or a ring game?
 
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Buy in tournaments tend to be tighter than cash games, depending on the blind and payout structures, because most tournaments you cannot rebuy if you lose your stack . In cash games, you can rebuy and use the information gained from the stack hand against your opponent later on.
 
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what are some of the differences when playing cash games and tournaments? do you see more questionable flop in tournaments in hoping of catching a big hand a knocking someone out? i would think that you would do this more often from late in a tournament with hands like suited connectors and low to medium pocket pairs. also would you play more aggressively in a tournament or a ring game?
You have to play tighter in most tournament situations unless everyone at your table likes to limp. Maybe in the beginning when the blinds are relatively low you can see flops, but when your stack is medium size you have to tighten up and play higher quality hands.
I definitely don't think doing that late in a tournament is the right approach. Almost always late in a tournament, there's people shortstacked compared to the blinds and theres going to be a lot of shoves. you can't afford to play questionable hands when your stack isn't deep enough.
on aggressiveness, you can't really say, it really depends on the players at the table. generally, tournaments though, because like previously said you only have one chance and want to win as many pots without a fight as you reasonably can.
 
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i like playing cash MTT , because they have alot of excitement. The prize money is sometimes big. MTT are stressing, last for 4-5 hours and needs alot of concentration.
 
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what are some of the differences when playing cash games and tournaments? do you see more questionable flop in tournaments in hoping of catching a big hand a knocking someone out? i would think that you would do this more often from late in a tournament with hands like suited connectors and low to medium pocket pairs. also would you play more aggressively in a tournament or a ring game?

Most important thing in tournaments is fold equity, especially in most on-line tourneys where you have a small starting stack and fast blind levels.
If you play too tight you'll make it ITM but you won't have a stack big enough to put pressure on people and you won't be able to go for 1st place.

So you should play more aggressively in tournaments unless you are playing a deep-stacked tournament, which doesn't mean you can play super tight/passive you would be too easy to read/exploit.

Most important thing in cash games is value, blind stealing is also important but your main goal is trying to get your opponent's stack, which means the suited connector type hands are much more profitable to play in a cash game then in a tourney cause you play with deeper stacks.

In a tourney you're usually only getting the implied odds to play speculative hands in the beginning.
 
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I think the major difference is you see players at cash games make plays with say a flush draw to try to induce that fold equity and steal the pot rather then actually wanting to get it in behind % wise. Because if the other player does call then and you lose they can always reload where is in a tournament you can't just buy right back into the same spot of the tournament. Also I think a big difference is the blinds go up which makes playing different sized stacks different at each blind level where as in cash you tend to almost always play 100bb deep.
 
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At single table tournament games I'm sometimes much more willing to fold a hand if 1 or 2 people are all-in because you are guaranteed to advance to the next position.
 
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Buy in tournaments tend to be tighter than cash games, depending on the blind and payout structures, because most tournaments you cannot rebuy if you lose your stack . In cash games, you can rebuy and use the information gained from the stack hand against your opponent later on.

True, in tournaments you have the risk of going out of the tournament.

I don't put too much f any effort into "calling for information" in online cash games.

You see so many players in online cash games i don't think there is any value in calling for information.

If you do happen to see them again or with any frequency you'll have enough stats on their general play to help make informed decisions anyway.
 
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