I have quit online poker and specialized in live play (semi-long) - Page 3

jerome baker · #21 09-12-2006, 02:43 AM

are from rowland heights?

schwerd2 · #22 09-12-2006, 03:18 AM

i moved down to AC to play live, but have switched to mostly online. I play NL though, live NL games arent worth it unless im playing 2/5NL or up which i dont have the BR for. I make more online per hour multi-tabling 50NL than I do playing 1/2 NL live.

Theres too much variance in live poker, and you dont get the experience from the number of hands you could be playing online. As you move up limits online your live game will probably be better as well.

Tells are overrated. If you know how to use a HUD really well, you will earn more money from it than live tells.

People in poker rooms are annoying. A lot of them smell, are degenerates, and are just not pleasant to be around. If you need to "socialize" when you play call some of your friends over for low limit home game and donk it up.

gilbert · #23 09-12-2006, 05:11 AM

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Said it before and will say it again:

Live poker always has been, and always will be, vastly superior to online poker. Period.

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I'm sure a lot of poker players (myself included) enjoy playing live more than online, but online is so much more profitable.

If I could possibly have the same winrate as I do playing online compared to playing live, I would choose playing live.

Also, if there weren't so many douchebags in the cardrooms I would play more than once a week.

and I don't see how anyone could prefer trying to stare down someone across the table and put them on a hand because their nostrils flared instead of using pahud. I only play limit anyway so I don't even really look for tells when I play live unless it's REALLY obvious.

Dangeresque · #24 09-12-2006, 06:31 AM

See there's the age old debate: 300 hands an hour, 3 dollar rake. Rake back. Vs ultra loose play, easily beatable opponents, and the opportunity to concentrate on each hand.

Or: Rock garden with limits so low that it's impossible to move up, no real conversation, a bunch of people who aren't paying any attention to what you're doing, vs. A room with rake amounting to a big bet in the largest pots. Dealers with rent-a-smiles depending on how much you take out of your stack to toke them, and housemen who don't apply the rules consistently... sigh, I miss 2003.

DayTripping · #25 09-12-2006, 12:22 PM

I used to play 2-4 and 3-6 LHE online but I found the games to be so tight that I only play live LHE now. I will play O8B and hold em tournaments online, but the cash games have become complete rock gardens. I'd rather go to Foxwoods and play a game where 5-6 players (at the least) see every flop and will call you down with middle pair than sit at a 2-4 Party Poker table where everybody seems like they've read Sklansky cover to cover.

Percula · #26 09-12-2006, 01:20 PM

I started out with online, then live, then back to online.

I got my feet wet again after many years of not playing online. Then moved to the live realm, fine tuned my skills, and have moved back to online for a number of reasons.

1) There are only a few private games in my area that offer NL at the stakes I want to play at. There is no NL in the B&M in my state.

2) I can play 300-400 hands an hour online, get rake back and still hold an edge over most of the players I am against.

3) I can find a good game just about anytime I want. I am lucky to get into a private game once a month that is worth playing in.

I still consider myself a much better live player than online and if I lived in LV or LA, where I would have decent/good game selection available most of the time, I would book a lot more live hours, but it is hard to compare 300-400 hands an hour versus 20-30 live...

Aces McGee · #27 09-12-2006, 01:25 PM

Just so one thing is clear, spending all your time in the cardroom doesn't make you any less of a hermit than spending all of your time at home. I hope your new routine includes some non-poker activities, as well.

-McGee

Ignignokt · #28 09-12-2006, 03:09 PM

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Theres too much variance in live poker

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Maybe you're not playing high enough, where they respect your raises and don't suck out on you.

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Yawning Chain · #29 09-12-2006, 03:46 PM

I think Colima does have a point here. However, addiction is addiction no matter where it occurs. Anytime I go to my local cardroom at least thirty percent of the patrons are the same degenerates I see there everytime I play. They are always playing badly (good for me), usually tilting (also good for me), and rarely bathing (bad for me). Although I do enjoy turning a long term profit off of these people and I most certainly enjoy the freak show of gambling junkies, pimps, and career criminals, having so many hard core addicts living in the same community where I raise my children can't be a good thing.

Addiction of any kind sucks big time. Get your life under control so the rest of us don't have to pay for it in one way or another.

DayTripping · #30 09-12-2006, 03:52 PM

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I think Colima does have a point here. However, addiction is addiction no matter where it occurs. Anytime I go to my local cardroom at least thirty percent of the patrons are the same degenerates I see there everytime I play. They are always playing badly (good for me), usually tilting (also good for me), and rarely bathing (bad for me). Although I do enjoy turning a long term profit off of these people and I most certainly enjoy the freak show of gambling junkies, pimps, and career criminals, having so many hard core addicts living in the same community where I raise my children can't be a good thing.

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Can I ask where you play? I didn't know South Central LA had a poker room?