Greenstein - Good Article.

[nmt09]

I'm not sure which has more skill:

In tournaments:
you have to survive the blinds
you can't wait around for the nuts
you're playing more people you don't have a pattern on

In cash games:
you can wait for better cards
you can re-buy so to speak

As for money being the sign of better players I can't agree, this years WSOP winner has won more than most but I wouldn't put him up there with the best.

Just because Barry plays higher stakes doesn't mean he would beat a good player who hasn't yet won the $500,000 to play in his cash game.

Another problem with the cash game idea is that the top 5 he listed would be playing each other all the time, one has to be better than the rest and under Barry's comments that would mean the other [over the long term] go home losers.

I'm just starting to get my teeth into poker and I'm trying to understand which path I want to follow - cash or tournaments.

Anyone have any advice, links, book recommendations for cash games?

If I had to make a choice I would say cash games make better players, tournaments have much more luck involved because of the blinds and as a newcomer I've placed in tournaments [a few actually] but got my arse handed to me in even the micro limit cash games...