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Old 01-23-2007, 12:57 PM
PorkchopDJG PorkchopDJG is offline
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Default Adjusting to loose live play after playing tight internet games

I have been playing more live at the local cardrooms lately and have noticed a striking difference in how loose/passive LHE live games (4/8, 6/12) at casinos play compared to the tight/aggressive LHE games (1/2,2/4) on Ultimatebet where I play online. It really is like night or day playing at one compared to the other.

Typical Ultimatebet hand I raise from middle pos everyone folds or I raise from late pos get reraised from button. Miss the flop with my AJ button bets and I fold.
Typical casino hand I raise from early position With AQ three cold callers behind and BB call. Flop comes AJT with two hearts, I bet it gets raised and called twice back to me and I fold it gets played to the river three ways and guy wins with flopped straight.

You can see from the examples that these games play completely different meaning you have to make major adjustments to your game. You can semi-bluff, checkraise and bluff online because people will fold where live these things rarely work because most likely one or two players will call you down to the riv anyway. In the live game you pretty much wait to flop huge hands, value bet and get paid off with a big pot.
I just wanted to put this out there and get other people's views and opinions if they see this so prominently when they play live vs. online.
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