Re: Cash Game & Tournament Differences
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IMO, yes. Tournament players are way worse on average than cash game players and it's not even close.
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A very bad assessment.
Tournament and cash poker are two different breeds of poker and each one of them requires a different approach. In cash games, you can afford to lay down big hands because you're not facing escalating blinds/ante. You're grinding it out at the same levels against generally speaking the same opponents.
In tournaments, you're moved from table to table and have to constantly adjust your game to the different table conditions. Players come and go real fast and you have to get quick reads on them before you get involved in a big pot with them. Since the blinds and ante eventually catch up to your stack, you can't afford to fold TPTK if the situation is correct. Eventually, the blinds and ante will consume you and you'll stack off if you grind it out the way cash players do.
In other words, cash players are basically playing one neverending session of poker. Tournament players have to play for a fixed amount of time and have to make the most of what they have during that short session.
Tournaments and cash games are only similar in the early stages of tournaments where the blinds and ante are deep relative to your stack size and you can afford to grind it out for a while. But that only lasts for the first 3-4 blind levels in online play.
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