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Even though I have been around the gambling arena for a while now, I still can't differentiate between an ordinary poker player and a tournament poker player even though I know there are differences between both of them and what makes the difference between online crypto poker and physical poker rounds.

Read a guide like this one
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/betting/casino-guides/poker/how-to-play-poker/

Basic rules of poker are very easy. The hard part is playing enough to know when to raise and when to fold. Knowing if your cards are good enough and how far you can go with them against other people who also feel confident and keep going.
Choose a very low stakes table and play for fun. Experience gain will cost you some money, just make sure it's not a lot.

I have read a lot of options on this topic and am now well aware of the possibility of elasticness to top up and build good poker skills since a lot depends on skills to win in a poker game. I have to dedicate some time to playing poker in some of the poker casinos that offer high stakes for winning.

Casual poker player is in most cases fish (https://www.partypoker.com/en/how-to-play/strategy/psychology/poker-fish) type.

And "tournament poker player" aka "professional player" is taking a proper approach to the poker: he has a different strategies, he can bluff (not ALL-in with 66 on your hands), know basic math and probability theory - so, in sum this is a guy who looking to the poker as to it's work.

There no any other difference.

The difference between a cash table and a tournament is the cash table are to make profit and the tournaments are to hold until the end. So, in the tournament you will see a lot of folds, people will wait until they get a decent hand to play, but in the cash tables you will see people paying bad hands chasing the luck.

And that apply for online and real poker games.

I'm not fan of poker, but my streaming playing it a few weeks ago.

IMO, the main difference between online & physical poker is on psychology & gesture. In-online poker you can't get that data, most of poker player can taken the gesture and how they react for the decision maker.

- Bluff, or there has some act with a strong hand.

While online-poker we can't get that.

There is no difference between online and not online, because both are poker games. Maybe you're confused because the minimum bet is different at each table, it's also the same in physical casino at there are different tables too. Regarding tournaments, there is no difference in online/not online poker, but the difference between tournaments and not that is clearly different, you can come back anytime on anytable, but not when you to join on a tournament.

Well, an ordinary poker player is especialed in playing in cash game, where many patience is required, and usually this one plays in very tight way in way to reduce loss as more possible, while waiting for the best

combination in hand. Poker tournament player instead is especialized in get some placement as more near as the 1st place, and strategy is different (he can turn to be from aggressive to tight during the tournament phase)

From its name we can see already the difference between ordinary poker player and tournament poker player.
Ordinary poker players usually prefer to play cash table where they can start and stop anytime they wish while tournament poker players prefer to play tournament where they need to play against so many players to win the top places as per its rules.
In tournament, you need to spend a lot of time unless you are knocked down by other player quickly.


The place is the first main difference between online crypto poker and physical poker.
The other difference is about the satisfaction and the thrills that may affect your strategy.
In offline physical poker, you can see your opponent's face and gestures while you cant see it on online poker.

Online/offline Players
Online Players are playing on Gambling Platforms whereas offline players are playing on the table normally as well. Online does not involve gaining insight into emotions of a player whereas Offline does involve some things that you can pick up and use. Online is way more private.

Normal Poker Player/Tournament Poker Player
Considers multiple tables in a Tournament, Normal Poker player only plays on one tablet and is focused on just one game wheres in a tournament you do and move on as well.

Rilwan is creating poker threads around the gambling section... I have never seen him playing any poker! :)

If he is not spamming then I don't know what spam is! :)

I think he's excited to learn the basics of poker because he's still a beginner since most of his posts are about poker. That is why he needs actual practice and over time he will learn a lot and upgrade his skill for the better. This depends on how passionate he is!!!

Ha ha, if someone didn't play in our bitcointalk tournament, this doesn't mean that he is not play poker at all  ;D

Especially since a lot of people using different usernames in different poker rooms


For what reason? Another mad spammer on this forum?

Even me I does not really penetrate or going to poker player or poker gambling but I do see poker gambling on poker advertisement in Bitcoin forum but really I haven't going into their site to check exactly what is happening there and the what is the difference between the poker player and the ordinary poker so. So I believe that with all this topic people are creating some of us who feel low tint into poker gambling we now make up time to check the difference between poker game and the other gambling games like casino because it's not everybody who is in gambling section who knows what gambling is all about.

Man, is that even important? Anyone can be a normal poker player and hide in the public that he's a tournament player and wants to remain lowkey when in public.

I've got friends that are both.

They post pictures of them playing in a tournament and as well as playing in a house with their other friends playing altogether.

You're right, the bitcointalk poker tournament isn't a benchmark, but I haven't seen him active in poker threads in general, ANN casino threads that have poker...


Well, I don't know for what reason... I'm just saying how it seems to me, a couple of sentences without any sense! He could have found all that in a few minutes on this forum, or on a zillion other places! If he was really interested I think he would have put more effort into this... just my opinion! :)

The same as me, since I'm not sitting in casino threads, only in discussion thread about poker.



Ok, I think I was wrong. The reason pretty obvious, look at his signature. Just a sigspamming. Because the sig on members is displaying without colours I didn't pay attention to it at first before asking you.

Now I will ignore his threads and this one too

The difference between an ordinary poker player and a tournament poker player is that one is less skilled while the other is high skilled, that's because they practice a lot because this is their living. They are being paid or sponsored to play on a big tournament where a huge stake is involved.

A normal poker player are contented on their skill and only plays mainly to get entertained and also to earn some profit. The difference between the online poker and the physical ones is that you can't see your opponent online which makes it hard to predict their next moves but there are still advantage like you can play almost anywhere.

The root words are there, you don't need to differentiate them if you're aware of their existence. Or for you to have more idea about them, there are too many videos about them on YouTube or any other social media platform.
That's going to be the best answer for you to have those idea on how they look like.

In real poker when people sit at a table in the physical there are many things they can show, and one of them is the gestures of people, sometimes the emotions are reflected in their faces, others are able to do nothing kind of gesture, but it is somewhat difficult, I think the most professional are the ones who achieve this level, now in crypto it is different, it depends on the strategy and luck, like PVP tournaments with crypto, maybe there is a way to communicate, be it an internal chat, it's the only way, but there are players who don't even speak, so they are factors that are taken that are very far apart, I think that in crypto players have the same way of playing, since it doesn't change much.

I am surprised that after so many responses no one has explained the essential difference, although my colleague seoincorporation has outlined a little of what it is all about:


In a cash game you lose or win in each hand the money you play for in that hand, while in a tournament you don't win or lose anything until you are eliminated or the tournament is over.

If you enter a cash game table with 100 USD and on the first hand you win 30 USD, you can leave the table and walk away with that 30 USD profit (plus your initial 100 USD).

Not in a tournament. The chips you win or lose don't have an economic impact in real money until you finish the tournament. In order to cash out you have to hold on without being eliminated until you reach the positions that pay out.

Besides, the structure is different, because at cash tables the blinds are the same, while in a tournament the blind structure is increasing, so at the beginning people play tighter, while at the end when the blinds go up, the aggressiveness goes up and people play more all in.

I don't think there's any difference between online and physical poker, for how to play it's just that in physical poker we can deal directly with our opponents, and can see the movements / cues that exist, that doesn't happen in online poker,

You cannot distinguish between the two types of game, or the strategies that these players will use? An "ordinary" poker player would I guess play cash games, including no limit, where it's easy to gain money fast but you also have the ability to lose your bankroll faster as well. Tournament players can win bigger amounts can win much bigger amounts but the best prizes are really reserved for the top 1-3 spots, all other prizes can really vary and may barely be an improvement on your buy-in amount. Depending on the size of the tournament, they can take very long times to complete and you definitely need to determine whether it is worth your time unless you're consistently getting in the top few players.

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.



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.

You are asking two different questions, the second question about the differences between online poker and playing at a physical casino has a very simple answer, the speed and as such the number of hands you can play online is much higher than what you can play at a regular casino, there are several reason for this, at an online casino each player has a timer while this is not the case at a poker table, and even more importantly at an online casino you can play at different poker tables at the same time, something which is not possible at a physical casino.

Right in tournament people play calmly and wants to finish the match in top players and for that you need to analyse the moves of all the players like who is folding and who is raising the bet so you also have to judge what pair you have with you so lot of mind things to work on but in cash table everything is fast paced and people wants to either win or loose at the moment seeing if Lucky or not.

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.


Are you sure?

Daniel Negreanu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Negreanu)

There are some difference between an online crypto poker player and a pyhsical poker player, the biggest being that online players play many more tables simultaneously. In a physical casino the poker player can only sit at one table and gives his full attention to that table. Even when he folds his cards he can't just jump into the next hand. That is why it's much more important to play with the additional information you have in real life. You are watching your opponents, see their facial expressions and try to identify any tale they might offer when they are bluffing. A good way to conceal yourself is a wear sun glasses and a scarf. Online poker players don't care about these things, they only play their strategies and usually have 4,6 or 8 tables open at the same time. Then there is a big difference between cash game players and tournament players. In a tournament you only earn money if you make it into the money, you can't just leave the table and take your profits. The decision making is much different. Top poker tournament players are usually not the best cash game players and vice versa.

Actually, there are many advantages and disadvantages if we compare the two ways of playing poker. I think many will agree that they like online poker if they're for convenience. But if for strategy, they'll do agree that the actual face-to-face and physical poker is what they're going to like. That's why I disagree with what you've said that there's no difference between doing both of them but it's all up to you for which is the one that has the most favorable to you.

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:


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.

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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.</sup>

IMHO, fM.

I think it's hard to tell the difference between regular poker players and tournament poker players, especially if they play online poker games because they play poker off-site.
Maybe we can see from the way he plays how he can bully his opponents and so on.
But it's not easy because I think there will be something different between them.
Only having more experience than other poker players will help him to win that poker game.

I am not a poker expert but I guess the difference could be seen even from an ordinary poker player like myself. It's easy to differentiate if you've played ordinary poker with friends and have also seen poker tournaments with professionals. It is obvious that they're the experts in poker faces. You can never tell whether they're bluffing or not. You can also observe that they have a certain level of accuracy in their predictions as to what possible cards their opponents have.

As to the difference between online poker and physical poker, online and physical. That's it.

Maybe it will be seen from how they play poker but I'm not sure because a tournament poker player can also play as a normal poker player. Ordinary poker players will look awkward if they play in tournament poker because they are not used to playing in such a place, especially if it compares crypto online poker and poker games in physical casinos. Maybe you often lose when playing poker at online casinos so you think that the player you are playing against is a tournament poker player. It can happen because we will never know who the players we are playing against, especially in online casinos.

When it comes to cash players versus tournament players there exists some small differences, in cash games even if the minimum bets are the same for everyone the capital each player has at their disposal is different, which means that a player with a lot of chips can bully his opponents from the beginning, in tournament play everyone begins with the same amount of chips, so everyone begins with the same floor and the number of chips you accumulate over the course of the tournament is more indicative of your level of play, so good players have a lot of chips while poor players get less chips until they get eliminated from the tournament.

Exactly. The difference will be different when a tournament starts because experienced tournament players know how to bluff their opponents from the start.
I think tournament players come with more preparation than cash players because they will enter a match where they need a large amount of money.
Cash players only play when they still have money, but once they look at their diminishing wallet, they will stop and may not have a target for how much money they can win or lose.
Tournament players have estimated everything, even in terms of the money used.

While I am not an expert poker player out of the two I prefer tournament play, in cash games those that bring a lot of money to the table can begin to bully those that have a lower number of chips almost immediately, regardless of whether they are a good player or not, so you need to play way more tightly until you can win them a big hand or two, but in tournament play everyone has the same amount of chips meaning that there is no one that can bully you from the beginning, allowing you to play in exactly the way you want and if you're any good then you will begin to accumulate a lot of chips and use them to pressure your opponents.

The difference looks very simple although I do not play poker, but crypto poker should be using crypto, yeah? and physical poker should be using physical currency. Another difference is that you play with people physically that you can see in physical poker, whereas online crypto poker is the opposite. I have something to ask as It just occurred to me, are all online poker crypto poker? or do we also have online poker that doesn't use crypto?

Those we often see playing poker trying their best to win from their fellow players are mostly ordinary poker players. Some gamble only for fun, while some still aim to be lucky and make profits. However, poker tournament players are those who are big time players and who often play for sure profits. They usually beat their opponents because they play with special skills and strategies, and that made them experts in the game.

Cash players vs tourny players or the way you play is much different.  In tourny play you are almost playing to stay alive.  In cash games ypu can easily go all in much more because if you have good odds but lose ypu can just buy back in.  I find that touny play is much more safe or slow than cash games.

Well, I have also learned a lot from the technicians when I play with my friends, or at least when we played games, when I was in college it was incredible, but there came a time when I was only going to play poker and play soccer and chess, they were great times , and that's where I most specialized in playing poker, of course we bet real money and everything was something else, however when you play in tournaments it's something else, you don't see your friends' faces, you don't even know who you play with, it's Difficult to determine what things you want to establish or what strategies to use so that your opponent deviates and plays carefully.


You are not the only one who is looking for that, what happens is that currently people are only looking for more fun and not to think so much, that is why slots are an infallible option, of course those who are from the old school want more poker, more poker tournaments where you play like the professionals, although many want it, I don't see a casino that wants to venture into daily tournaments, I'm sure it would be very profitable and a great option to attract more people to a casino, here even those people who don't know crypto would learn quickly just to play, that's a marketing strategy that shouldn't be overlooked.