Live Tournament Play vs Online Tournament Play

[Felix_Nietzsche]

Update:
I finished in the top 1/3 of the tournament but I did not money.

Start ($5000, 25/25, 40 minute rounds)
The first table I was at had a very good skill level. People were laying down QQ in re-raised pots in pre-flop. My first table was on the tight side. There was one player that you could either call a 'call station' or a master reader. He called two big bluff barrels from a 'young gun wanna-be poker pro' and earned a slight chastisement that he should have folded to his 2nd bluff. I pegged him as more of a call station but he made it to the final 3 tables out of 240 players so he was either very lucky or he knew what he was doing. It makes me wonder if being a call station is a good play in some of these tournaments....as long as you do it with the right player.

A big stack was moved to my table on my left. I hit top pair with him and kept check-calling him. He was firing a way with a gutshout. I did the classic rope-a-dope check/calling play on him but he rivered me by hitting a 3 outer. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Later when this same guy made it to the final 3 tables as well. When he busted out, he came to my cash table and I licked my chops. We got heads in in a pot and he made the same 2-barrel bluff play on me.....and rivered me again. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] No justice in poker.....

In summary, I found the level of play to be quite good in this tournament....