I've heard a lot about tourney donks, how cash players are generally better, and how players think "yum yum" when WSOP winners come to their cash table, and I was wondering what the main reasons are. I shall start a list of reasons why tourney players are fish when they come to cash games from what I've worked out. Add to the list, and disagree with any points that are made.

- The stacks are normally shallower in tournaments, making for less postflop play, therefore the cash game pro will have a better understanding of how to control the pot size when the stacks are 250BB deep.
- Losing your chips means you're out of the tournament, so putting a player to a decision for his chips adds more pressure in a tournament than it does in a cash game.
- Due to the fact that the stacks are shallower in tournaments, there are less implied odds or tricky plays, therefore the hand range is smaller in a tournament than it is in a cash game.

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