Which Do You Find Harder? Cash Vs Tournaments

[makisaa]

At tournaments you pay a buy-in and you play for the hours you will stay in. If you do the same thing in cash games the most of the times you will have lost much more or if you have a significant profit you will leave game much earlier. The profits you can have at tournaments are bigger. I usually play at tournaments and a little at cash games.I think that tournaments are easier in long term.

 

[leogetz79]

to me i would say cash games are harder. because you have to deal with bankroll. and to me thats hard. when im in a tournament everyone starts with the same chip quantity.

 

[vitalii029]

for me it is more difficult to play cash games than in tournaments I used to play tournaments everyone has to adjust themselves to a specific style of play and stick to it

 

[Joshua_Kane]

Tournaments have always been much easier and more profitable for me. I would like to make the switch to cash games but I’m worried my style of play is so directed towards tournaments that I’ll just get eaten alive in a cash game.

 

[JAAMEZz]

i find i play more MTT than cash. i really enjoy the 9 handed sitngos

 

[danoscar]

Tournaments have always been much easier and more profitable for me. I would like to make the switch to cash games but I’m worried my style of play is so directed towards tournaments that I’ll just get eaten alive in a cash game.

A good question. If you wish to go to cash games, you may wish to try your hand at ring games. The blinds always remain the same and there is no ante. So when you look at a ring game and see .01/.02, the blinds will always be 1 cent and 2 cents. This will be a cheap way to try your skill. Log what hands you play, position and outcome. After a number of hands, you should feel more comfortable about playing 9 man cash games (single table). 6 man games to me go faster and can eat my BR fast, so I like playing 9/10 man table cash games if I do at all. Good luck with your games!

 

[blata8ruga]

cash games are harder for me I dont like the risk compared to tourneys where u can wait for a good hand and not lose money on the blinds

 

[david1bear]

well for me I think tables are easer for me then tournaments:0) you can build up quick at a table but you also can go down fast you would have to leave when the getting is good also you can buy in as long as your money is:0) a tournament you have to constantly work on your stack so you can stay up and in till at least 3rd to make a reasonable amount of cash cause once your out your out:0)

 

[neptun1914]

For me cash games are harder because there are no rising blinds there which allows players to wait for their good cards before playing. This causes many bad beats. If you play no limit cash games you can easily loose your entire stack which took hours to build in single hand. In tournaments you are risking only the entry fee which is usually small compared to the potential winnings and sometimes you need to win just several big hands to get to the money.

 

[Ropa]

I barely play cash games, so can't talk about my cash games. I play Spin & Go's instead of cash games. But talking about Spin & Go's vs tournaments i feel like playing tournaments is harder for me, because i don't have that patience yet to sit hours and hours playing one tournament without even knowing if i am able to even make profit. Spin & Go's are easier for me, because after few minutes i know if i win or lose some of my BR.

 

[r21sp]

I think that tournaments are much more difficult than a cash game because in tournaments we play 100bb stack and 50bb stack and 10-30bb stack and these are different styles of play, but in a cash game you always have 100bb stack and you rarely play in another! So, there is no IMC factor in the cash game!

 

[Enthusiast]

Playing cash is emotionally harder because you can lose everything at a time, and the complexity of MTT is that they need to spend a lot of time.

 

[kowrip]

I have had success in both, but cash games have been easier for me. I think I'm more relaxed because you don't have the blinds pushing you to act like you do in tournaments. I can just stick to a balanced range, calculate the pot odds when necessary and make the best reads on my opponents. I go through the expected swings, but I always seem to end up ahead. I enjoy tournaments for the chance of winning a big cash prize, but I hate always feeling short-stacked when the blinds/antes are increasing quickly. So many tournaments turn into basically pure gambling with so many all-ins in the later stages.

 

[TheDude6622]

Playing cash is so much easier for me than tournaments, but I love to play tournaments haha. In a cash game, you are playing against 8-9 other players and that is it. In a tournament, you get moved so much that the variance is going to change over and over, along with getting moved to tables that could have 3-4 monster stacks if you're only an average stack.

 

[Ranish625]

Tournaments cause me the complexity of only one, they are very long for 5-8 hours, I'm just very difficult to play so much time in a row.

 

[masik6]

As for me it's all hard and tournaments and cash.

 

[telford777]

I almost titled this post, "Which Do You Like Better" but then I changed it. The question is inregards to cash games or tournaments. Which is harder for you? For me it is tournaments. I am very card dependent. It is hard for me to get a good read on opponents and narrow their range. This makes me very card dependent, and this is sort of ok in a cash game. I can sit around and wait for good cards, and then hope to get paid off when I get those good hands. In a tournament there is so little room to wait for good cards. The blinds rises up and before you know it, you have nitted yourself out of the game, because the blinds have eaten you alive. Tournements are harder for me because of this. How about you? Which is harder and why?

Swings and roundabouts,I think. Because in tournament play, greed is rife... And with it comes impatience, but if a player waits too long, as you pointed out, the blinds will take their toll. Unless very lucky, the LAG approach is recommended by quite a few decent players.
With cash games however, players don't seem to be as eager to blow their stack.

 

[Serjinyu2017]

Tournaments is harder, because need more patience, but more interrsting than cash tables.

 

[BesseNuts]

I prefer Cash games. Its my style! You have to change many times your strategy in tourneys. Its diferent in early, mid and late game. Its not happens on cash. Yeah! You may change your strategy sometimes, but not because the game is "growing thinner".

 

[reorgas]

yes this is great we play and learn

I would say tournaments are way more harder type of game for me. The main reason is length of the game and constantly playing versus new players. Since that is the case, you can't really build up an image of yourself for your oppononents and then use that image as an advantage in the game later. Also, in tournaments, you can't really get to know style of play of your opponents and therefore it's way harder to make good plays.[/QUOTE]good good

 

[akmost]

I think cash games require a better grasp of the game.In a tournament some times you just wait for a decent hand to go all in.
If a bad player plays both cash and tournaments I believe there is a chance for him to win some money in a tournament but in cash games there is no such thing in the long term.

 

[sheltowee420]

I find tournaments to be more fun to play, and more challenging, so, I am much more focused on the key moments to arrive.
In a cash game I just fold hours and play a few hands, (much harder to be sneaky).
Also, in cash games you can earn some chips much faster and get out, as opposed to tournaments which are hours and hours long.

 

[danntesvarna]

My person play Cash.

 

[freddydr87]

Im better in cash games,but i like the most tournaments,you are more time with your opponents and you can read them,in cash people sit out all the time.

 

[west28]

think cash games in the long run can be really hard if you don't have patience. tournament would be the same if you trying to rush and if you play lots of hands or when your a calling station.