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JOKE POST 8 22.22%
ACTUALLY TRYING TO GIVE GOOD ADVICE 28 77.78%
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Old 10-25-2007, 08:37 PM
daveT daveT is offline
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Default Re: 5/10nl live skill level is to _______ online

Live is loose passive at smaller stakes, tight passive at medium stakes, and LAGGY at higher stakes.

I don't understand why this question always comes up. It is sort of moot. If you are playing 100 NL on-line, and 5/10 live is equal to at least 5 buy-ins, then why does it matter?

On-line, the trend seems to be tight-passive across the board. I don't really think that players are better because they are tight, just different.
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Old 10-26-2007, 08:25 PM
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Default Re: 5/10nl live skill level is to _______ online

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Here's the thing: online poker isn't real poker. It's like miniature golf compared to real golf: it has skills, but not the full range of skills. Which means all these guys talking about how good they are at mini-golf, when they have to play the whole game, get spanked. They especially embarrass themselves when they say they've played more hands of poker/rounds of golf than Doyle Brunson/Tiger Woods.

People play looser live because games are slower, because they aren't 10-tabling, so waiting for good cards is harder, sure, but also because everyone else is playing looser in real games, so playing loose yourself makes more sense, and, most importantly, because you have the ability to read your opponents. I know many online players suffer the delusion that they can read their opponents (some roulette players think they can tell which numbers are coming up), but what you can do online pales in comparison to the real thing.

Online poker is for anti-social or socially graceless stay-at-home geeks for whom a hand job from an average looking girl is a life-highlight. These are guys who think everyone smells bad and dresses poorly and is boring and weird (and all the other comments online players make about why they don't want to be around other humans). Don't be one of them. The map is not the territory; porn isn't sex; your monitor is not the world.

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I`m gonna have to partially agree with this post.
Not entirely because there is too much generalizing in it about online poker but it`s probably closest to the truth for the majority of the poker playing USA minors,some of the students, the wannabe poker pros and college drop outs that call themselves "online pros".
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