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

[Toms]

I think the game is the same, but people who get in a car and drive for an hour or more to go to a casino want to gamble not sit and wait for premium hands because at 35 to 40 hands an hour it is easily conceivable that you could sit an hour without playing a hand, so with more people willing to play marginal hands the games are loose, more big pots and probably more bad beats per hands played but probably more lucrative than single tabling online.