Well D P D if you allow me the acronym, the OP asks the difference between a tournament player and a cash table player, which seems to me not to be directly related to what each type of Game (modality) is.
Hey fellow famososMuertos, let's see if you can explain it to me because I don't understand it. The difference between a tournament player and a cash player is directly related to the type of game they play. Or is the difference between a football player and a basketball player not related to the sport they play? Or a 100m sprinter and a marathon runner, if you like.
As for the type of players in each modality, there is always a dilemma if cash players can only be successful in that modality and vice versa.
The truth is that you cannot be successful in both, but you can enjoy accessing the modality at any time.
Are you sure?
Daniel NegreanuNegreanu is an accomplished tournament and cash game player.
First let's clean things up a bit, I think it's a bit confusing to bring sports and want to do poorly adjusted comparatives in the situation (Poker), I'm not sure what it's about, but if you want then let's adjust sports in comparison..
I ask you, do you know futsal?, do you think that a futsal player can play soccer, or do you think that a baseball player can play softball... With these examples I could tell you what my explanation is about.
I repeat, it is not the same to play cash tables and tournaments, they are two different types of players, there are different ways of thinking and different strategies, every poker player who is dedicated full time and has experienced deepening in each specialty knows that a night or a week of good results does not determine anything, but periods of months and perhaps years tell you what your specialty is and where you do it best.
After telling you the above I reaffirm what I wrote, in fact let's put the whole context:
"It is worth adding that in a cash table you pay a rake that varies between 3% and 5% and it is something that weighs a lot, it may not seem like it, but there are even casinos that offer interesting rakeback to deal with the issue in terms of profits or losses. depending on the case.
As for tournaments, this fee is fixed and is paid once.
As for the type of players in each modality, there is always a dilemma if cash players can only be successful in that modality and vice versa.
The truth is that you cannot be successful in both, but you can enjoy accessing the modality at any time.
The correct thing is to be a specialist in one of the two modalities that are quite complex in their strategies and in their results."
In conclusion, and it happens a lot with poker, people believe that a pair of AA is always played the same way...
Poker is so complex that even one can specialize even in the limits that he plays regardless of whether you play NL10 or NL10000 this in cash tables, in fact there are players who do not level up and remain all the time in certain limits, when they should play in other levels.
Likewise, tournament players!.
For each type of player according to several things as; change of levels (time), the initial stack, the number of players, in fact if there is ante, Add-on, rebuys, if it is Nkout, if they are Sit&Go e.g. of 500 initial chips and levels 3 minutes and a maximum of 6 players, or 12, 36 players, ETC.
So, Yes!, Anyone can pay their buy-in and sit down to play if they know how to play NLH, if we talk about that variant of poker since there are even specialized players in one or several variants that exist, even for that there are specialized players and they can be said to be winners in that certain specialty, but they can play poker.
That is the point, my friend Don Pedro Dinero, everyone is called to play poker, but you have to specialize if you want to be a winner and maybe that is why many consider poker to be a game of skill and others that it is a game of luck because they believe that it is as simple as holding some cards and playing for the luck that you are dealt and they believe that they really know how to play poker because they win with their pair of AA and others that it is bad luck when they lose with those same cards and they do not see the differences.
Do you think that Messi would be good at playing indoor football?, I think so, you remember Ronaldo the Brazilian, he started out playing indoor soccer.
I point out the previous ones to your reference and that they serve in the same way, they are exceptional players and in the case that concerns us Negreanu would be the equivalent of him. But, and said by himself, his specialty is tournaments, ah! that he is a winner and is a good cash player, I already mentioned it, nothing prevents you from putting money wherever you want, he has won more than $40 million in tournaments, that gives him a good bankroll to play against the best in the world.IMHO, fM.