[SheridanCat]

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In a ring game each hand you play is indepentant, like one toss of a coin, maybe thousand of independant hands per year.

In a tournament the hands are not independent but are all just part of the tournament. Each tournament is just one toss of a coin. Even if you played one tournament a day that would only be 365 tosses of the coin per year, unlike the thousands of tosses of ring games. (I just made this up off the top of my head as an idea to throw in to the discussion.)

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Hmm, I don't think so.

The cards have no memory. The cards received and played on one hand do not influence the cards received on another hand. In a tournament, you could say you are carrying over your chip stack and the advantages that gives you - and that will reset at each new tournament. However, the same can be said for, say, a NL ring game session.

Of course, there is image and style that carry over, but those are going to carry over whether you are playing ring or tournament.

Nope, still not convinced of any meaningful different in expectation outside the edge cases that Pov pointed out previously.

Regards,

T