[TxRedMan]

Making friends that you run into wherever you go to play.

Playing with $100 bills on the table.

Live tells.

Moving back into the must move game.

Food and drink, and not just any meh food and drink most of the time, readily available. *bear claws and milk, right baby?

Dealers who appreciate players who tip.

Dealers that let players run the game under normal parameters.

Running it twice.

Shuffling chips.

Cashing out is easy.

Being able to scare/humiliate/run off angle shooters.

Learning a players style and never having to worry about them playing under a different account, err, you know what I mean.

Whales who wander in from the casino floor.

Regulars who are great for the game that are also succesful businessmen with huge cash flow that slowly donate who would never ever play online.

Fast live cash games with players who play fast and dont hollywood.

Short handed, wee hours of the morning deepstack poker.

Value betting tourists so small they dont feel like they lost much until they call off their stack over a couple of hours.

Time pots.

500 BB stacks.

Straddles!

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Listening to the unbelievable [censored] you can only hear at a live poker table.

The commaradery <sp> that you develop.

Manipulating people through body language and speech patterns, choice of words, false emotions.

***My favorite thing about live poker is how much you learn about people and situations and how to handle each with a mindset of positive expectation and non-emotion***

Live poker teaches you (when taught succesfully) incredible patience and control and over time can develop in a player the ability to ignore and be impervious to things that other people and online players would react to in an emotional and irrational way, i.e., insults, needling, obnoxious behvior, etc, etc, all of which are exaggerated exponentially by the inclusion of money in the situation.



-Tex