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Originally Posted by Carnivore
But most people would probably guess I was never an online player. Unlike all the dumbasses that sit there and grind online while they play live, and use poker lingo and strat talk at the table and discuss winrates and then wonder why all the fish are disappearing.
I'm confused, you think that someone who plays an online table on a device while playing live is an "online player"?? No, that's a live player with an iPad.
IME fwiw (and I know this is a bit off topic but I wasn't the one to take it there), the guys who show up talking strat at poker tables irl are mostly part time/full time live players who have some combination of the following:
- don't think what they say has any effect on their environment, because whales are gonna whale, etc.
- are too lazy to work on their poker game but smart/self-aware enough to know that higher level strat does exist. some are even mildly self-conscious about the fact that they play live, because they're aware of what "online players" think of them, rightly or wrongly.
- have some chip on their shoulder/ego thing going on with other young players there where they feel they have to "save face" by "knowing their ****", despite its total lack of relevance to being successful in their games
3) usually supersedes consideration of the potential negative effects of 1), because, well, ego is ego.
My experience of going to casinos is often that someone there, usually another player in his 20's, pegs me as the "online guy", and proceeds to sort of engage me in some kind of strat discussion, to signify to me that despite this live game being his turf and his thing, he also knows the higher level stuff, thank you very much. This narrative of the autistic basement-dwelling button clicker venturing out into the live games and lacking social skills is pretty off base, imo.
Last edited by RalphWaldoEmerson; 05-16-2017 at 05:38 PM.