Poker game consists of two main areas - tournaments and cash (money play). Theyhave many differences, advantages and disadvantages. In this article we try to deal withthem and help you with choosing the direction for development.
Tournaments
Most tournaments are divided into multi-table (MTT) and Tournaments Sit-and-Go. The latter can be regarded as a training game at the final table of MTT, but in terms ofearnings Sit-&-Go - a rather complicated way, because they play quite a lot of ”regulars”(permanent plus players).
Disadvantages:
- You can not choose opponents and beat losers. To succeed in tournaments, it is necessary to win their opponents level and stronger, ideally, everyone who started the tournament, and this is quite trivial.
- Strategy Tournament fickle. As the game is changing the depth of the stack (expressedin the big blind), and the value of chips that is not fully understood by most beginners. Asa result, the tournament has at least three stages with different strategies. Typicallylosing chips, you can not replenish them, so your strategy is again changing.
- Multi Table Tournaments are held from a few up to 10-20 hours. You can not eat normally or go into the shower. To maintain the concentration for such a long time have a serious workout and favorable conditions. Often because of fatigue of all the playerslevel of play at the final table falls to a minimum, a good example of this final Main Event WSOP 2009.
- Difficult to understand you’re playing well or not. Even good players can not get in the prizes for dozens of tournaments. Corollary: you need to have a reserve bankroll andquietly endure setbacks.
- Attractive tournaments to suit your time and buy-in can take place once a day, and evenless frequently.
Advantages:
- For a relatively small amount or even free (freerolls), you can play for quite a long time and if we are lucky to win at 10-100 times the fee, which is impossible in the cash game.
- Easier to play tournaments - usually you have a short (20-30-40 BB) stack and the bulksolution is applied before the flop.
- Victory in the tournament brought fame and glory.
Cash games
Strengths:
- You are free to choose the players to avoid strong beat the weak. In search of ”fishey”climb even though all the tables in the poker rums - it is your right and the need for plusgames.
- To enhance the level you can successfully use the program. To analyze the cash gamesthey created far more than for tournaments.
- If you play well, you can win almost every day and always be in a positive mood.
- You can play as many tables as you comfortably.
- Complete freedom wanted rose, sat down and wanted to go watch football and drinkbeer.
- You can win a lot, with the rest and remain virtually unknown.
Disadvantages:
- If a player is not in the form of the evening he can merge all your bankroll in the multi-table tournaments will be problematic, because of their absence.
- To successfully play the full stack, you need to make the right decisions, not only before the flop, but also on all other streets.
- Victory in the game to the cache, but the most high stakes and the TV show, do notbring glory.
Conclusions:
You can try their strength in both directions, what to play longer for you to decide, butbefore seriously playing tournaments, it is better to gain significant experience andachieved plus games on the cache.
