Enjoying Live Play More than Online - Page 3 - Mortar and Brick -- Two Plus Two Poker Forums

allin4flush · 02-28-2012, 07:51 PM

I miss several things about online. Playing multiple tournaments simultaneously, the hands per hour, the availability and variety. Coming home from work and playing PLO or Stud/8 or Badugi micro ring games for a half an hour or so. 45, 90, and 180 SNGs.

However, as has also been said, live players are cartoonishly soft on average and only at a live table can I be the person with the most knowledge about range, ICM, 3-betting, short stack play, etc. etc.

Going from Online to Live is like Flowers for Algernon, except without anyone knowing how much smarter you've become.

horny goat weed · 02-28-2012, 09:29 PM

Live Cash>Online Cash

Online Tourneys>Live

MrMcStuffer · 02-28-2012, 09:44 PM

^This
one exception however. The full tilt 10 game was a blast if it was your thing.

asdfasdf32 · 02-29-2012, 03:33 AM

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Originally Posted by horny goat weed

Live Cash>Online Cash

Online Tourneys>Live

This x10000.

Live tourneys blow, and blow hard. I'm only guessing it's because during a lot of stages you're forced to play pretty darn nitty and most tourney players have the personality of a rock.

mistanator · 03-02-2012, 11:33 PM

Always loved live even though I tried to hack it online when it was still going. It seems like if you don't have software like a HUD and a manager like Tracker, you are at a disadvantage. I even played with these things and it really didnt seem to make a difference. I think online favors math geeks and I love seeing those math geeks come out and blow their whole load because they are too impatient. Black Friday was the best thing that could happen to live play. It's an endless ocean of fish even at stakes like 2/5. Weekend nights you can really clean up. Always loose games with few nits. Plus talking to people and feeling the chips/cards is so much better that digital money. Live play for life!

signalstrewn · 03-04-2012, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by allin4flush

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Going from Online to Live is like Flowers for Algernon, except without anyone knowing how much smarter you've become.

Haha, awesome.

taz13 · 03-04-2012, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by horny goat weed

Live Cash>Online Cash

Online Tourneys>Live

100% agree with this. Have always enjoyed live cash games better.

However, online tourneys typically were better structured than casino daily tournaments which become shovefests and the better tournaments live are really expensive where as you could play the Sunday Million for $215.

djz · 03-04-2012, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by mistanator

Always loved live even though I tried to hack it online when it was still going. It seems like if you don't have software like a HUD and a manager like Tracker, you are at a disadvantage. I even played with these things and it really didnt seem to make a difference.

gj contradicting yourself.

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I think online favors math geeks and I love seeing those math geeks come out and blow their whole load because they are too impatient.

yea math geeks are really known for being actiony LAGs who spazz off their chips. it's frusturating having to wait for premiums onlines cause everyone is limping and playing 70% vpip then calling when you raise 10bb's.

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Black Friday was the best thing that could happen to live play. It's an endless ocean of fish even at stakes like 2/5.

so true. people who used to make a living playing poker are such fish.

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Weekend nights you can really clean up. Always loose games with few nits. Plus talking to people and feeling the chips/cards is so much better that digital money. Live play for life!

i know man! games on weekends were so bad pre-BF! plus thank god for these newfangled chips that you can actually play with, so much better than having to use pen and paper!

mistanator · 03-05-2012, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by taz13

100% agree with this. Have always enjoyed live cash games better.

However, online tourneys typically were better structured than casino daily tournaments which become shovefests and the better tournaments live are really expensive where as you could play the Sunday Million for $215.

Yeah online was definitely good for the MTT's and the price. Hard to play live tournaments that are worth it for cheap.

ashiXIII · 03-05-2012, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by kenji08

1000 hands/hr, $100+/hr at 1/2, playing in underwear, playing whenever you want, having tv, music, internet and your fingertips while taking peoples money. more fun because crushing regs and thinking players is so awesome. winning 2k in a couple hours then quitting and going out with your friends. online was so much better

pros about live: everybody sucks so bad, hot biches walking around the casino occasionally, nice to interact with others, chance at bbj, comps, getting the cash immediately has a better sense of winning.

cons about live: variance sucks, have to drive, have to wear clothes, cant really play a profitable short session unless you run like god, rake is killer, ugly biches walking around, hoping to hit bbj, losing the cash immediately and seein bills leave your pocket hurts more

rake online way more detrimental imo

stratofortress · 03-05-2012, 05:06 PM

Online cash was so much more convenient but I've come full circle and think I would rarely play OL even if it did make a comeback -- I'm hooked on playing live.

Live has a wayyyyy softer player pool (having to start balancing 3b ranges at 25NL and even sometimes 10NL was ridiculous, bad players live are way worse than bad OL players) and I enjoy actually playing with the cards and bantering with the table. Adds a whole 'nother dimension to the game where OL is much more mathematically-based.

syncmaster · 03-05-2012, 09:43 PM

I enjoy playing both, but I've just become so used to playing whenever I want with OLP.

This time last year, if I wanted to play poker right now, I would be in my game of choice before I finished this post. Even if I had to be somewhere/go to sleep in 2 hours, I could get in a bunch of hands before I had to call it quits..

I want to play right now, but keep thinking to myself.. I have to go out in the cold, swing by the ATM, drive to a local casino, wait on the list for half an hour, join a game/stakes that I don't want to play, leave after midnight with 1k on me, etc..

Now that I have to make plans to play, I find myself doing it less and less.

SlowHabit · 03-05-2012, 11:09 PM

I'm probably one of the few online kids that love live poker.

Although it's slow, I talk with my neighbors or think about the hands when others are playing. I rarely, if ever, talk about strategy. It's not fun for recreational players and there are other topics to talk about ie sports

On occasions, you meet interesting people who are successful and you learn what make them successful in life.

ashiXIII · 03-06-2012, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by SlowHabit

I'm probably one of the few online kids that love live poker.

Although it's slow, I talk with my neighbors or think about the hands when others are playing. I rarely, if ever, talk about strategy. It's not fun for recreational players and there are other topics to talk about ie sports

On occasions, you meet interesting people who are successful and you learn what make them successful in life.

sports are the only thing to talk about?

Tjmj90 · 03-06-2012, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ashiXIII

rake online way more detrimental imo

in what way?... explain please

At least for tournaments live rake is much worse then online