Re: Why online poker sucks.
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Play live if you think online rake it too high.
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OK, a number of people have made this point, most quite snidely. Here is the response: GAMES ARE A LOT BETTER LIVE. A higher rake per hand is a lot more tolerable.
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Eh? But wasn't your claim that the high rake is the reason why the games are so hard now? You seemed to be saying the the high rake has the main responsibility for driving the poor players out and in that way toughening the games. But live games have higher rake, so how can they be softer than online?
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The high rake has driven the live one down more than out. If he can't play live where he lives, he has been driven down in stakes. He's got his 2k a month to lose and he gets to have his 20 hours of gambling only by playing lower where he doesn't lose it as fast. But where almost all of it goes down the drop.
Why are brick and mortar games better? All kinds of reasons. There are home games that are even better than brick and mortar casinos. I'm not trying to give a general explanation of how good games are. But it is easier to compare online now with online before the NOv2005-6max-$3ization. Some say everybody read books. That is certainly part of the explanation. But the overriding factor has been the rake.
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