Cash game and Tournament, which one requires higher skill ?

[Steve Deeble]

Both cash games and tournament require skills specific to that type. In cash games you can chose to play as few or as many hands as you feel necessary. While in tournament play patience is requirement to make it to the final table. Personally I feel tournament style requires a higher skill level to be patience to make it deep into a tournament,also the necessity to adapt to new players and their style of play makes it require a higher skill level.

 

[Eric Salvador]

Each one requires a certain skill set. Obviously there’s overlapping skills. When playing Cash you’re should be deep stacked nearly the entire session. You have to have the discipline to lay down big hands. Also know that you’ll get floated and called down with a much wider range because people can just buy back in. Tournaments you need to have timed aggression. The ability to know what hands to play due to what stage in the tournament you’re in or what stack depth you or your opponents have. There’s much more then that this but just a few observations

 

[Dailon Arroyo Blandon]

In both cases ... Both cash tables and tournaments need to have good skills to be successful ... It is obvious that different strategies must be used ... however from my perspective I think that the tables of Cash should pay more attention to the movements of your opponents because as you better read your opponents have ... better profit you can get out of that ... and therefore end up winning ...!

 

[AlexBlefer]

different skills for different types games. Build your own style

 

[Sacredoro]

Really two different games that look alike to the average person. Most pros who make a living at cash tables see tourneys as luck dominated, but in reality regular tournament players will tell you that they use different styles of skill not needed in ring games. Then again a whole lot is common to both games too. I personally play for money in cash games and do tournaments occasionally for fun and hope to luckbox a score.

 

[tauri103]

we win money faster by playing cash games but it is extremely difficult to achieve this goal if we do not have a good level of play. It is advisable to try to learn before putting his money into play on this style of play. Have 50 BB and especially multitabler to be able to reduce the effect of the variance. for the MTT it takes more time to win big money. It is also technical but the variance plays a more important role.

 

[Yoda82]

As many have said, they are very different skill sets. To me, most tournaments (minus rebuy tourneys) require a higher degree of overall skill because of the inability to plop another $300 on the table and say deal me the cards. In cash games, you also don't have to necessarily have the discipline to maintain a focus on the game for as long as you might in tourneys. In a tournament, you can't just up and walk away with whatever chips you have in front of you. You HAVE to stay in the grind for 8, 12 hours at a time, sometimes days on end. Mental exhaustion becomes another opponent at the table that you have to fight each and every hand.

 

[Zvezda kz]

Hey.
In general, it is generally accepted that cash game players are more erudite in poker and are far superior players in poker tournaments.
But for me, not everything is so simple, I think that in tournaments a player needs a lot more poker skills. I think that in tournaments different skills are required, and in cash games the use of the skills required in tournaments is minimal or absent. But all this concerns tournaments with minimal average contributions.

 

[maezma]

It is different to play in cash than in tournaments but the biggest people as a player are the apprentices in the tournament format.

Regards.

 

[MadDeVille]

I wonder which requires high skill. To me, cash game does. I started playing poker about 2 months ago and I don't play tournaments so often, I already reached the finally stage (4th place was my best), but I got more losses than wins in cash games.

It seems in cash game players are more serious on each hand, tournaments (esp. freeroll) players go all in a lot, just try to test their luck...

For me playing cash is better. After playing with some players for 2-3 hours in a cash you can read them easy. In tournaments you table is changed often.

 

[blata8ruga]

I think that in tournaments you can be more patient for your spots. Where as in a cash game players will attack your blinds and it is easier to lose money. When you make money at a cash table you can walk away up money. So I think cash games are harder for sure.

 

[Rob Hobson]

I say exactly what I said to a similar thread (two before this one):

Both are hard, in their ways. Ring games are harder for your bankroll because is linked to it directly. Being aggressive in cash games is not necessarily part of the strategy like it is in tournaments, the harder side of this game. By the other hand you pay the buy in and go for it and this fee is all you can lose.
So I believe the cash mode demands more skill and reading refinement, taking the luck factor further away. The further the lady luck are, the better skill can be applied. My opinion.

 

[MishkaZL]

In my opinion, cash games are more complex and require more discipline of the player. I prefer tournaments. In addition, despite the type of tournament, I always try to wait for good cards and use the position at the table.

 

[darthjewel]

I think that tournaments are more difficult than cash games and require a particular set of skills to win.
I see no big difference between the level of the final table(s) of tournament and the cash table, it may be easier at the beginning, but they require instant focus for at least 2-3 hours.
I play only cheap entry fee games though.

 

[jekan85]

the tournament is more difficult there you need to calculate all the forces and skills for a long tournament distance

 

[infonazar]

Without a doubt, cash games are more complicated. For me, they have always been unprofitable. I have not played cash games for the past three years.

 

[bruno13xs]

I think the two of you need some skills in the cash game I think the staff plays more with luck too and tournament depending on the value of the rewards person plays but maintained