Deciding between cash games and tournaments depends on your personal preferences and goals as a poker player.
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Here's a breakdown to help you choose:
Cash Games
Pros:
Flexibility: Sit down and play whenever you want for as long as you want.
Control: Manage your bankroll and choose your table stakes.
More consistent action: Frequent hands and opportunities to win smalle[...] Read more » Poker: Cash Games or Tournaments - Which Should I Play?
Joined: May '09
Location: Croatia
Age: 39 (M)
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well, everything that we have in this news is right and every player should see in what position is he and what he can afford to himself! when you are pro, this is your only job and you can spend more time then other players, no matter do you play long tournaments or cash games! every new player should read all tips and to start from low stakes and it says in this news!
Cash game variance is sometimes hard to deal with because when you manage to be on a downswing for mutiple weeks (or months) it will basically drain all your energy (and cash reserves) faster than anything else. Grinding MTTs is relatively more laidback in terms of stress and swings and the rake is less drastic. You just need to find out which one suits your personal gamestyle better.
Joined: Sep '19
Location: Peru
Age: 29 (M)
Posts: 5410
I particularly like both game modes, I love to play tournaments and also cash, each of them has its advantages and disadvantages, everyone could choose according to their possibilities.
Joined: Aug '08
Location: Poland
Age: 41 (M)
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It depends on who likes what. Everyone chooses games for themselves and what suits them. In my opinion, NL2 low limit cash is good for beginners to learn the game. Personally, I can play cash, but only up to NL10 level and I don't like cash games because they tilt me. The advantage of cash games is that we can end or interrupt the game at any time. Personally, I prefer non-turbo tournaments, but the downside is that you have to sit and play for many hours.
Joined: Jan '14
Location: Romania
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cash games are good for us, if we play at low stakes, otherwise we need to know good poker to play at higher stakes. Tournaments can be played by anyone because here is suitable for everyone.
Joined: Sep '19
Location: Peru
Age: 29 (M)
Posts: 5410
players who are starting out can choose tournaments because you can find players of the same level or more or less, that's why, but also in cash I like a lot and they can choose if they are more prepared.
Joined: Sep '19
Location: Peru
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I have seen a lot of level in cash, and much more in regular tables where we see players who are in several tables playing, but in the end each one chooses according to their possibilities and abilities in different situations.
Joined: Sep '19
Location: Peru
Age: 29 (M)
Posts: 5410
For me I like to play a lot at regular tables, I also like to play tournaments, you can say that I play at regular tables 70% and in tournaments 30%, everyone will have their own percentages when choosing what to play.
Joined: Sep '19
Location: Peru
Age: 29 (M)
Posts: 5410
it can be called professional when you depend only on poker, and that the money you earn per month is enough to live, that's why in each country the salary is different, and according to that you can define if you are professional or not.
Joined: Oct '12
Location: Croatia
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 267
I usually prefer Cash Games then tournament at the moment. Before when I had more time for playing, I played a lot of tournaments. When you play Cash game, you can easily stop at some point when you had it enough, while tournaments takes a lot of time. Once, I finished at last table in tournament at 4:30 AM. I got quite good amount of money, but I never played again that late. It was about 10 hours when I got out, so who knows when tournament actually finished.
