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11-28-06, 12:10 AM
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At least they will invite you back now
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11-28-06, 12:50 PM
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Sure, if you feel like killing time or drinking with a bunch of obnoxious morons or whatever...
If you want to make some money, on the other hand, online play is FAR superior in (almost) every way. Yes, you lose the ability to look your opponent in the eye and to talk to him, but that is BY FAR made up for by all the other advantages of playing online... |
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11-28-06, 04:10 PM
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In defense of the live game …
I love live poker. One two punch of the felony law here and the demise of Party means I’m playing almost exclusively live games, and enjoying them more than I ever did playing online.
It’s not as profitable. As that recent great thread on limit poker pointed out, limit is a game of making fractions of bets, and tipping the dealer definitely eats into profit. And an occasional $25 splash pot hardly makes up for those reloads I miss so much. But at the end of the day, I like the social aspect of it, the feel of chips in my fingers, the rituals of tapping the felt to check. I’m in front of a computer all day in an office – that’s work. Being in a casino, sipping on a free drink, bullshitting with the guy next to me – that’s play. It also helps that WA card room are smoke-free.
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11-28-06, 04:57 PM
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Agree, but I just hate low-limit live tournament structures, especially the freezeouts.
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11-28-06, 10:39 PM
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I, too, much prefer live games. And TP, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you've made significantly more money live than online ... but that's a results-oriented conclusion ...
More to the point, though. I suppose if you consider poker to be your primary source of income, and your mortgage and grocery money depends on how much you win at the table, then yeah, online's the way to go -- just for sheer volume. But unless I'm playing for something significant (i.e. a major payout or seat to a major tournament), I'm going to trade the four-tabling for a chance to feel cards and chips in my hand any day of the week.
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11-28-06, 10:57 PM
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I tend to play better live, and especially in tourneys. But for cash games, it's the sheer volume thing that gets me. If I can EASILY play 5+ tables online of 6 max NL, that's 500 hands per hour. Live, you're lucky to get 40 hands per hours in, and last night, I bet it was more like 30. Factor in the drive time, waiting for the game to get going, etc, and I was gone from my house for almost 6 hours and saw maybe 150 hands. I could have gotten in more hands than that here in a half an hour! Had I played 5 hours online, I could have gotten in 2500 hands! Even if you round that way, way, way down to 1500 (maybe I was only 3 tabling or didn't feel like playing that long), that's still 10 times as many hands as I got in last night. So even if my win rate is TWICE as high live as it is online (it's not), it's still 5 times more profitable for me to play online that live.
And don't even get me started on the rake. |
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