live game vs online: is it a completely diffierent game?

[Wolf44]

hi everyone [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

i have quite an argument with my friend, he claims that live poker games are a completely different thing than online poker games, because of the tells.

however i think, that in both forms, live and online, the most important thing is to play good solid poker, based on things like how many hands does my opponent play, how aggressive is he, is he tricky or straightforward, how much does he bluff and in what situations, does he steal a lot,.... and so on.

tells, wether live or online, are "only" a factor that needs to be considered in your decision making process, but they don´t completely turn the game upside down. sometimes this tells factor may be very big, that is when you have a really strong read on someone. then you may want to alter your "basic strategy" by a lot, but this is usually the exception.

this is only my assumption. i have almost no live game experience, maybe 50 hands all in all. but i´ve played an estimated 500k hands online.

thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts on this [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

p.s. tried the search, but couldnt come up with anything. if there was already a discussion on this subject, please provide me the link. thanks [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]