Re: Difference Between Live Tourney and Online
More seriously, on Day 1 of a high stakes live MTT, the structure and stack depth make the play generally slower, and potentially more complex than anything you'll see in an online MTT. You can see some big pots with subpar hands, generally involving people who don't know how to play deep stack poker. An example: on the second hand of the Foxwoods 5K, which had 15K starting stacks at 25/50, the table next to us had an all in preflop AA v. KK hand.
That being said, I've also been at some tables that were just batshit crazy from the first hand on.
There are tons of differences and adjustments between online and live (I heard Sorel Mizzi discuss the struggles he had adjusting to live play in an interview if you don't want to take my word for it), and you should play a lot of smaller live tourneys before jumping into anything with a big buy-in.
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