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Originally Posted by prodonkey
I'd rather ask why do the online pros that come from having 20 seconds to make a decision always seem to take forever playing live?
Ya, know I've seen people ask this one here a lot.
I don't play anywhere near the level of the people they are normally talking about.
But I generally play 9 to 12 tables of 100NL and/or 200NL online and live I'll play 2/5NL (or 1/2NL if I'm waiting for a 2/5 table):
On some decisions at the live game I will think for a while. Definitely longer than I could spend on most decisions online. Why? I've thought about this a tiny bit. Maybe (in no particular order):
1.) I can. I have more time now and I can use it if I want to.
2.) I'm not as used to live play. The play of the average online player and the play of the average live player is different. I'm more used to the average online player. Just taking a little bit to think through what would generally happen in live play here. (Of course unless I know enough to have a more specific read on the individual.)
3.) In a bunch of situations I have to count the size of the pot (I often try to keep track of it throughout the hand) and then determine my pot odds depending on the size of a bet I am facing. I may count multiple times to make sure I'm right.
4.) Similar to 3 I may just want to count the pot to decide what bet size to make.
5.) Also similar I may want to try to determine how large the stacks of my opponents are. Gotta count (estimate).