Cash players or tournament players?

[dusoiandrei]

I play only in tournament whit no rebuy or addon

[TARGI]

definitely tournament cash is more skill

[jokica1212]

the main event is way harder then any cash table could be. you have to play for 5 days just to make it to the money...

[StackSnack]

What a great question! So many dynamics to this theory. As much as it pains, being a cash game player, I would have to say tournament players have the advantage until you reach the final five. Once there are five, that is ALL cash table play. We as a poker community have seen this play out so many times with the great tournament players. Basically, they gradually build there stack throughout the entire tourney only to get railed in the top 5 with there big pair, usually against a running flush or str8.

Sidebar: When the tourney comes down to HU and there is a Cash game specialists vs. Tourney specialists. Great casino bet to put money on the Cash specialists.

[Derickp55]

cash games are harder of the 2 because its like the beginning stages of the tourney the whole time so much more play of your hand is involved with your 100 bb stack!

[Zerchai]

Cash game is full of mathematics.A succesful tournament player is way better in lots things and mathematics too of course. So Tournament

[eqgh5uea]

I think it takes more skill to be a cash game player.

There are some etiquette rules that you must follow in cash games that don't apply in tourney games. Imagine if there are only 100 people trapped on an island with nothing but the basic needs, a poker table with cards, and of course, some type of currency. If there was an unetiquette-type player on the island---who frequently hit n' runs, or big stacks every1 constanly---you wouldn't wanna play with her/him (I try bring the basic psychological factor down to play).

With tourney games, you're essentially playing with the houses' concept of money, but with cash games, it's your own money and every nuance goes along with it.

If you feel unlucky. or (sic) are card dead, you can just walk up and leave and accept that your buy-in was a mistake. With tourney-play, you can't do anything about said nuance except wait for a monster...

[aina27]

I think your assessment is correct

[hadiina]

i think in the cash game the factor of luck rolls smaller than the tournament and u can play more hands and bluffs works better,when u can bluff in a game,that means u can beat the game by talent.talents is more important in cash.

[lenitivelea]

As you said, cash playing is more focused on mathematics, whereas tournament play has more psychology involved. I don't know that either is better than the other, though it is perhaps easier for a cash player to learn the psychology of a tournament than for a tournament player to learn the mathematics/adjust to not being able to rely on the psychology.
That said, there is a computer that can beat a human player at a cash table. I don't know that there is one that can win a tournament.