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[QUOTE="c9h13no3, post: 1105828, member: 15450"]
The difference between tournament poker & ring game poker is that ring games are played with a deep stack (meaning, you have more big blinds in your stack playing a cash game than you do in a tournament).

This difference in stack sizes mean that preflop & the flop betting round becomes less important in a cash game, and the turn & river become more important.

So while in a tournament, a hand like [Ks][Qc] is so much better than a hand like [7c][5c], in a cash game, they become very close in value.  The KQo is fairly strong preflop, and will flop big pairs & thus will play pretty well on the flop.  But because in a cash game there is so much money behind on the turn & river, 75s becomes a much stronger hand.  So the 75s can call relatively small flop bets with a flush draw/straight-draw/ect. and can make big money when they hit their draw (and fold away a small amount when they miss).  But in a tournament, its just so easy to get all in on the flop or preflop, that this option isn't available, and 75s is just trash.

So in a cash game, don't go broke with top pair or an overpair.  You'll need stronger hands to put your whole stack in with if you're playing 100 big blinds deep.
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