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This thread is hilarious. I'm not near as qualified to answer as a lot of the players in this thread, but I have at least put in around 40 hours in the bellagio 25/50 game, which afaik was the highest NL game running in vegas at the time so I assume some of the best live players were in it.

It was hilariously soft. I would put the skill level of the average live pro I played against at 25/50 well below the average 5/10 online grinder. I wished the stars 5/10 game played like the bellagio 25/50 that I played in.

Maybe once you get to the top top live tier, there is a big skill jump, or maybe I just played it for a really soft week... but I doubt it. The fact is, the best players play online cause you can win more money at it. Even if I had a higher expectation per hand in that 25/50 game than playing 5/10, the fact that I get 30 hands an hour at live 25/50 and 600 hands per hour at 5/10 means that my winrate would have to be FOUR TIME AS HIGH at 25/50 then at online 5/10 for me to have a higher hourly there. Given how rarely high stakes pure NL games run that are easy to get into, it makes perfect sense that the best players in the world play primarily online.

And lol @ all the people who think that 6 max NL specialists couldn't adjust well to the extra 3 players. It really is a trivial matter. And with some practice, live reads are way less important than a lot of people believe imo. As long as the online player is smart and able to control their body, a few reverse tells should nearly make up for whatever they lose in that department.

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