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To be fair Gavin in one of the recent shows gave the online players a lot of credit and basically called them sick good.
I think he even remarked that he was a little scared.
My impression is that it's actually more Sebok who doesn't really understand or respect the online players and online poker in general.

That they don't, unlike the online cash games players, consider live tournament players complete donks, shouldn't really be all that suprising.

But I agree that it is a little embarrassing sometimes how ignorant they come across regarding the online poker world.
Scott Huff and Haralabob too, who I really like btw, I think he one time, wouldn't even acknowledge online poker as "real poker".

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I think it's the online players who don't get it. Although I like to rattle the cage of the young players, the truth is we are all poker players, but the young ones honed their craft on the Internet, because that is the place you can play a lot of poker nowadays.

In a live setting, these players need to learn the differences and I'm sure they will. In a live setting, the live pros are currently better, but some people misjudge this because the online players are mostly nolimit holdem specialists, as I was when I was in my twenties. It's hard to beat a good specialist at his game.

Phil Ivey and Patrik are the two biggest online winners of the last few years, and they learned poker live. David Benyamine is extremely good, but he puts himself in bad situations. Gus does things live that don't work as well when he plays online.

I think as a generalization I would say the online players are technically superior in nolimit holdem, but lack the feel.

I have only seen two young players who have good all around games: Nich Schulman and Mike McKenna (madcaddy). There were many so-called internet players in the HORSE tournament, but none even made it in the money.

Of course, I always put my money where my mouth is in the form of a crossbook, and I think I'm a favorite in a big live tournament against any of the young guns. I'm just glad Brian Townsend didn't put Durrr on his crossbook team as I expected him to.


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i think the argument in this case had nothing to do with guys like ivey and patrik

this is the case of people who play strictly live tournaments...if you take someone who ONLY plays live tournaments and put them up against someone who plays 10-20 tournaments online a day...there is no comparison

to be honest, durrr would have been a really bad pick for Brian in the prop bet as he never plays tournaments, his success only goes to show how a top notch online cash player can easily crush these live tournaments

yes the top 20 live players can play with the top 20 online players...but the players in the top 10-70th percentile online would destroy the live players of that same category and it is not even close

most if not all successful online cash player (who have shown it over a reasonable "long run" would be +EV in a WPT tournament

very few people who have won over a million dollars on the tournament trail could hold thier own in high cash games (both online and live)