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Originally Posted by jdr0317
+ your average opponents are much better, so you have to think of range balancing and where you are in your range and review HH against an opponent if not playing anonymously, so it's much more mentally taxing IMO. Live FR, like 95% of your decisions just make themselves.
Not just that but 70% of your time is just sitting around waiting for the next hand to be dealt. When you play online you are basically in a hand every second.
As for the hours discussion, I play slightly less now, but my typical schedule was play from roughly 10-5 (stay if games great) come home then come back and play from 8 or 9 to roughly 2-4 in morning (leave early if games not great). Then sleep at 3 or 4 am and up at 8 everyday. I don't mind the hours but its not the easiest and understand thats not for everybody.
The main reason I don't mind (and why I started to play online poker anyways) is that I have bad insomnia and will usually just stay awake for hours regardless so may as well try and be productive in that time if I can. And everybody else is usually sleeping so all Im really sacrificing is sleep