[Sherman]

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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.

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Put some winning cash game players in some good tournaments and they will win $. Put some winning tournament players in good cash games and they are much less likely to win.

Basically, good cash game players have no problem adjusting to tournaments. Good tournament players have many more problems.

FWIW, I used to be on the tournament players are the best bandwagon. But they aren't.

Edit: Beyond that, I said the AVERAGE tournament player vs. the AVERAGE cash player isn't close. Not that all cash game players are better than tournament players. That isn't close either.

2nd Edit: I also used to think this: "Tournament players are better b/c they have to adapt to changing situations all the time, and cash players don't have to face that."

But it turns out, that those "changing situations" are pretty [censored] simple to figure out. OMG, I have 10BBs, what ever should I do? A winning cash game player can quickly adapt to tournaments, much more difficult to go the other way around.

Edit 3: B/c I really don't want this to be a debate about who is better. That is unsolvable and really quite pointless. There are great players in both, I play both, and I enjoy both.