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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11-28-06, 10:57 PM
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