[Shaffer]

I'd put 1/2 live at a roughly equivalent level of the $0.05/$0.10 online. Seriously. I think the $0.10/$0.25 game online is actually substantially tougher (meaning, it requires 10 functioning brain cells as opposed to 3). As for 1/2 live vs. 1/2 online, there's no comparison.

At 1/2 live you're not going to run into many players of a caliber good enough to make their living playing poker. Online, the 1/2 games attract a great many people that can make a comfortable living (usually involving aggressive multi-tabling). There are still fish, but they're not nearly as abundant.