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: Sep '19
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Each player can choose what to play, there are also many who like to play spin go, a game modality that I also like to play, that's why each room has its different game modalities to choose from.
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I can't resist playing a lot of cash because of boredom. I have money in my account to play cash, but some players are used to playing a lot and fast and i don't like that. I prefer tournaments where i have a little more time to think.
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the tournaments this year are very entertaining, many players are entering certain tournaments, the ecosystem is becoming more exciting with the bounty mysteries, good luck to everyone.
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tournaments are the best because here the losses are smaller, especially if you play satellites, and if you reach the final tables you can seriously win. Cash can ruin you quickly and it is quite difficult...
Joined: Sep '19
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you are very right, the tournaments are more entertaining and easy to play, many players love it, and if you are very lucky you get to the final table and win very big prizes, good luck to all of you.
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I like final tables in tournaments, but unfortunately it's very hard to get there because of players who don't risk as much as they should, even if the tournaments have a small buy-in. People sometimes risk with weak cards, but don't pay with better cards...
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Location: Slovenia
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For me... i am for cash games for sure.Can play when i want, how much long i want and how many tables i wont. I played few tournaments here and there but not the game that i would usualy play. But in tournament when you bink the prizes are bigger, but you must invest more time. All games has their pluses minuses. You must just decide and stick to it so you can get better and better.
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you're right, because some players don't have time to play tournaments, and then they play cash. Those who can play for a few hours will opt for tournaments or cash and everyone plays according to their time and what they like.
Joined: Sep '19
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it is very important to clarify this, I think that many can not play the tournaments because it demands a lot of time, a normal tournament usually lasts almost 3 or 4 hours, you can not get up from the chair to take long breaks, but in cash you can do it.
Joined: Sep '19
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That's right, many times weekends are the days where most people prefer to play tournaments because most of them are at home, that's why the time will depend on which mode to play poker.
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geseco12 how is your poker career developing...? Have you reached the top yet...? But you're right, the biggest traffic in poker rooms is on weekends and non-working days, especially in winter when most people stay at home. This is when they have time to play and most of the biggest poker tournaments with a large number of players take place at this time.