The most important distinctions between cash game and tournament poker are that in cash games, the stacks in play will be much deeper (usually 100 or more big blinds) and that you can rebuy if you lose your chips. This has far-reaching implications for your strategy adjustments in terms of both the hands that you are going to win with when big pots occur, and the way more marginal hands should be played.

Ordinarily, if two solid players get a lot of money in the middle during a cash game hand, you can be sure that they either have something very close to the nuts or, occasionally, big draws and bluffs.