Re: Transitioning from online to live.
 

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Live poker means that you can go a whole day and not win a single hand. Have fun.

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Live poker means you can have days where you win 2000BBs in 3-400 hands.

[censored] fun.

So poker is high variance. Is this supposed to be a news flash or something?

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I'm really suprised how many people don't enjoy live poker.

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I'm really suprised how many people don't enjoy live poker.

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Hard to enjoy it when you're stuffed in a cramped up table with degenerates, loud mouths, and generally retarded people while making 1/5 of your hourly rate online.

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I'm really suprised how many people don't enjoy live poker.

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Hard to enjoy it when you're stuffed in a cramped up table with degenerates, loud mouths, and generally retarded people while making 1/5 of your hourly rate online.

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Fair enough. I guess I've always just had better experiences. Its been good money and good fun.

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It's a hell of a lot more fun playing drunk in Vegas with friends than playing with the degenerates and grinders at your seedy local card room.

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It's a hell of a lot more fun playing drunk in Vegas with friends than playing with the degenerates and grinders at your seedy local card room.

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For sure. Mixed games with Frank, Pokey, and MT2R >>>> live poker in my local casino.

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I think I'd like live poker a lot better if I could play 600 hands of it an hour with pop-up stat boxes that let me know exactly how my opponents play. Bonus points if I could also instant message my friends while doing it! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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I'm really suprised how many people don't enjoy live poker.

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Hard to enjoy it when you're stuffed in a cramped up table with degenerates, loud mouths, and generally retarded people while making 1/5 of your hourly rate online.

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play higher - the competition is horrid

Re: Transitioning from online to live.
 

Just a follow-up on this thread...

Thanks to Pokey and others, as I found a lot of this advice useful when playing $1/$2 in Vegas over the weekend instead my usual $25NL or $50NL game...

All-in-all, I did pretty well and found that as many here suggested, overall skill and play was no better than what I'm used to at $25NL...

I finished up for the weekend, although lost 2/3 of my profit on Saturday night on one pretty badly-played hand on my part (got too attached to TPGK).

My two modest contributions to this invaluable thread...

1) One difficult adjustment can be feeling comfortable with the higher bet sizes, and not letting it affect your play. It took a while for me to calmly make a $30 or $25 c-bet (the same size as my normal buy-in online), until I saw that it worked time and time again.

In my one genuinely bad hand, I got into a mess OOP because I called instead of raised on the flop. At a $25 or $50 table, I might be able to make a re-raise on the flop to better define my hand and test my loose opponent, but at a $200 table, a solid checkraise would have needed to be about $70-$100, which was more than I felt comfortably doing with AJ on a A62 board against a loose, aggressive opponent. I ended up losing that much, and more, later in the hand anyway, because I played the hand passively and had no idea where I was in the hand.

2) The risk of fatigue is worse live than online. When I get tired at home, it's easier to call it a night and log off, but in Vegas, it's a lot harder to step away from the action, since your time there is limited. As a result, I found myself playing longer at tables than I probably should have if I wanted to make sure I was playing my best poker. The ugly hand I mentioned above came at the end of a 6-hour session, with only two hours of sleep the night before. I think my bad decisionmaking and play was in part due to simple fatigue.