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Originally Posted by ashley12
...I also wouldnt play online, either as purely for profit, learning etc... since OL play is a whole different best and because of smaller expected winrates in terms of bb/hr will take longer in terms of hands to get a rough gauge of your true winrate/lossrate.
So its better to jump into the live game cold???
Online poker is a great tool to learn the mathematics of poker and a helluva lot cheaper to learn online vs live, by a factor of 20 cheaper. Not to mention that bankroll management is possible at any level and money is money. OP can work a job, play online for a few months, and then use that online money in combination with what he squirrels away as a bankroll when he is ready to play live again. Similarly, studying will have more of an impact if he can study and play simultaneously.
Poker is about "adjusting", if you can become a winning player online, those skills will transfer to live play once you learn how to adjust to live play (and OP does have some live experience).
Basically, is it your argument that becoming a winning player online will "hurt" your live poker game?
Poker is poker and becoming a winning player in ANY poker discipline will indirectly help any other poker discipline. Once you internalize the key principles of poker, they apply across the board.
This holds for online and live play and vice versa. If you are a good live player then you should also play online. Why not? Money is money. Yes, they have their differences their pros and cons but they are not mutually exclusive to the point where one hurts the other. Once you learn to adjust to each medium, then you have another poker revenue stream.