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Originally Posted by MrSpew
live and online is not the same game gents, online guys might be fundamentally better at 100bb stacks but live winrate is made up of straddles,loose vpip and deep stack play. you have to be personable to get action or be invited into random private games that will also make up part of your yearly income and you will have to adapt to the slowness of the game and the infinite amount of other useful information you have to make decisions.
many online guys struggle with all of the above because they are just more analytical and introverted. successful live pros are disciplined hustlers. infact, id back a good live pro over a good online pro for money earnt in a year. its is not a binary equation based on how well you play 100bb stacks, that will probably help with about 10% of what makes you 100k+ in a year playing live.
personality will dictate if you will enjoy it, this is basically all online players giving opinions on the lifestyle of a live pro so you can figure the amount of bias going on here.
as someone who has played both live and online i don't understand why people always say live and online 'is not the same game'. it is the same game, you are just playing against much worse players. obviously online players need to adjust their strategy to maximise ev and exploit the significantly worse players and all the extras like live reads, table selection, experience etc but once that is all sorted the online reg is just much better than the live reg at the game they are both playing
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Originally Posted by TheTyman9
That's not really how it works. Even at 2/5 the games aren't going to be THAT great on weekdays. And sure being able to crush 200nl on a tough site like stars or something means you are prob pretty good at poker and you'll likely be one of the bigger winners live once you get accustomed to it and properly adjust. But the idea that anyone halfway decent at poker is gonna go make $50+/hr at 2/5 live grinding 40 hours a week isn't true or realistic. Only the best few are gonna be making that much and those are the types who are usually moving up to bigger games successfully.
live pros should be prioritizing most of their grind hours thu-sun anyway. $50+/hr at 2/5 is very achievable for top 5-10% of the pool. it seems rarer than it is because like you said a lot of them move up and a lot of the big winners don't want others to know they are big winners. it REALLY is not that hard