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Message: [QUOTE="Jacki Burkhart, post: 2593240, member: 105969"] For those that think cash games are "real" poker or "pure" poker I have a rebuttal. First of all, I am a tourney player so I may be biased. I will 100% agree that in cash games the players that have better post flop skills will do better in the long run and that may seem to some to be "real poker". But post flop skills are just one of the many skillsets needed to be good at poker. Yes, player reads are important in tourneys. Perhaps they are more important in cash games because your table never breaks but they still are very important in tournaments and in fact, I'd say it's an even bigger edge in tourney poker if you're able to make relatively quick player reads in about 1 orbit, where the clock is working against you but in a cash game there is no hurry...so the pressure is on and those who perform well under pressure will do better in tourneys. What tourney players may lack in post flop skills they make up for in stack size management. Cash players basically have a game that is very developed around 1 situation: deep stacked play. I know people with a cash bias believe that deep stacked play is what it's all about and everything else is a lesser form of poker, but that is just their biased opinion geared towards exalting their own skill set. It is quite a show of skill to be able to have a solid strategy for various stack size situations: Having 20bb when average is 50+bb is a very different strategy than having 20bb when average is 15bb. And in large tournaments, every single stack size situation will come up if you play long enough and you need to have a solid strategy ready to go for playing that stack size and then adapt that strategy for the player reads and table style. I'm not saying tourney poker is better than cash poker; I think that's a silly argument to make about either. put a marathon runner up against a 100 yard dash gold medalist. Who is the better runner? which sport is more true? it's an unanswerable question They are both amazing runners in different ways and while both would probably do better than the average American in any running race, if you put the sprinter in a marathon they are likely to get smoked by even an average marathon runner; and vice versa. they're just different sports entirely that look vaguely similar to the uninitiated. [/QUOTE]

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