What does it mean

I seem to have more success in SnGs as opposed to cash games...

Does this mean I'm a bad player or what?

I'm new to a strong pursuit of poker, but I have been playing it recreationally for a while.

that you play sng's better than you play cash games

i bet you havnt played enough hands to know what youre better at.

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Originally Posted by Pelion

i bet you havnt played enough hands to know what youre better at.

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how many hands do I need to have played?

sngs are typically softer than cash at lower stakes imo. my winrate is certainly better in sngs. i think they are more appealing to the average fish because they are more alike the style of competition people are used to (ie clear and distinct "winners", prizes etc). cash games are more of a grind, and the results appear more long-term. also, tournaments are probably the style of poker most people are used to from their home games/pub poker leagues (at least here in australia) that they sometimes win and turn their $5 into $30 in.

10k-20k Hands of cash should start to give you an early indication of how you are running but even that can be flawed.

However, recognize you probably need 300+ SNG's to get a decent sense for where you are there too though (solid play vs. luckboxing).

easy, sngs have lower effective stacks, so quite often you only have to play preflop, and on the flop

cash games have deeper stacks typically, 100bb-200bb, which makes a lot of options more viable (raising turn, raising river, donk bet/3bet on river).

With more decisions, it takes a different skillset to beat. SNG games are more mathematically easy to "solve" because of the smaller stack sizes. THe smaller the stack size is, the more luck there is in a game.