Brigistul
Visionary
Platinum Level
online poker is totally different primarily that the deck of playing cards is random in that the RNG distributes based on a software that is strictly in relation to the cards you receive, a flop often under the question mark! Programmers are the only ones who know what conditions they imposed on that software!!! If you have played on several poker platforms you may notice a difference in the distribution of cards that appear on the flop depending on the players who play different hands.I live poker is something else and can be credited with playing correctly and professional players making mistakes as a result of at least double the time from one hand to the next, thus becoming unbought and sometimes losing Strictly necessary gameplay in this game.
primrose
Visionary
Bronze Level
(RNG is exactly the same, obviously.)
Biggest difference is that live has more of an ego element. Most other differences (like people raising larger and playing much worse) are upstream of that. Also the fact that you play fewer hands gives people more of an excuse to either blame bad results on bad luck, or actually have good results due to good luck, and either one again allows them to believe they're good when they're not. This is essential to keep the game soft. If the results were as cruel/strictly tied to your skill as in chess, almost no bad players would ever want to play!
Online you can't really intimidate people or feel good about how MANLY your play style is, so the game loses most of its appeal. That means there are way more people who genuinely study theory, which makes the game much tougher. Not good!
Biggest difference is that live has more of an ego element. Most other differences (like people raising larger and playing much worse) are upstream of that. Also the fact that you play fewer hands gives people more of an excuse to either blame bad results on bad luck, or actually have good results due to good luck, and either one again allows them to believe they're good when they're not. This is essential to keep the game soft. If the results were as cruel/strictly tied to your skill as in chess, almost no bad players would ever want to play!
Online you can't really intimidate people or feel good about how MANLY your play style is, so the game loses most of its appeal. That means there are way more people who genuinely study theory, which makes the game much tougher. Not good!
primrose
Visionary
Bronze Level
And yea boredom is also a factor. The blinds are supposed to be there so you have a game theoretical incentive to not be ultra tight (the GTO solution for poker without blinds is everyone folding every hand except pocket Aces), but the truth is that live this is barely a factor; the real incentive is boredom. Almost everyone would have a higher EV game if they just played tighter.
MishkaZL
Legend
Loyaler
In my opinion, online poker is more similar to bingo. Live poker is more similar to poker and therefore more complex. The dynamics of online poker make it truly different from live poker, and in my understanding, these are two different types of poker.
Poker Orifice
And Still...
Platinum Level
I think that generally they are nowhere near as good as they might think they are & generally have far less experience.
In low stakes Live game, you'll often see a very passive game with many flops going multiway (like comparing 10nl 888Poker on a weekend, with 25nl Stars on a weekday).
And honestly, any response that suggests the cards come out differently (dealt differently) aren't worth reading. I only wish there was a way to know sooner that this type of sentence was coming.
Claudiunm
Legend
Platinum Level
I think the opposite is true. Live players tend to make fewer and smaller mistakes. Live play is more strategic. There's less volume, and players aren't as risk-averse. In a more calculated game, mistakes are fewer and less frequent.
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HunRicky63
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I love online poker, live poker is not my genre.
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HunRicky63
Enthusiast
Silver Level
Dejana
Meat pounder 🥩
Loyaler
There's no rules - every player is different, we all makes mistakes, doesn't matter is live or online game! 🙂
But, for me personally - I got little advantage playing live other than online, I love to see how players behaviors at the table...😉
YLAN
Sida Nga Taraki
Platinum Level
Actually the reverse. I feel online induces bigger mistakes because its faster & more distractions. That's just me.
Rahul P Gopal
Rock Star
Platinum Level
It all depends up on the player finally. However, live poker comes with an advantage to read the opponents well while online games can be played with the assistance of tools such HUD.
hardongear
Legend
Silver Level
Live 1/2, 2/5 and even a lot of 5/10 players here are pretty terrible. Human beings simply have a very hard time hiding their emotions and tells even when they're trying. It's really to bad my local casino has the type of people in it no one wants to be around or associate with even when paid.
Cheers!!!
Cheers!!!
SpanRmonka
Legend
Loyaler
Well there's a lot of classic replies in this thread. Most of the RNG rig based responses clearly come from not being able to beat low stakes.
Min stakes live poker is much much weaker than min stakes online. The 'population' find folding way harder, but also massively overfold in certain spots, they are too passive, limping and calling pre and on the flop.
You don't want to bluff too much, semi bluffs and c bets excepted, or unless you have decent proven reads.
I'm not sure its the slowness of the game that contributes, and rather just the ego side of things, the lack of any study, but thinking they can play.
The trick is not to get drawn into this game, and play pretty tight, decent aggression, but don't go wild. Standard decent poker!
Min stakes live poker is much much weaker than min stakes online. The 'population' find folding way harder, but also massively overfold in certain spots, they are too passive, limping and calling pre and on the flop.
You don't want to bluff too much, semi bluffs and c bets excepted, or unless you have decent proven reads.
I'm not sure its the slowness of the game that contributes, and rather just the ego side of things, the lack of any study, but thinking they can play.
The trick is not to get drawn into this game, and play pretty tight, decent aggression, but don't go wild. Standard decent poker!
Fallenglory
Rock Star
Platinum Level
This is quite the claim. Do you have proof for this statement that this happens or happened in the past?
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GrannySmit77
Rock Star
Platinum Level
I think you should view online as practice for live. A lot of people have questions about the ''randomness" of the RNG generating card distribution ( online, that is). And of course online rooms can have house bots and not tell you about it. Live, well, at least you see the cards being shuffled and distributed to players.
primrose
Visionary
Bronze Level
Treat online as practice for live is also what my coach told me
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fundiver199
Legend
Loyaler
If you want to make significant money in cash games then yes. Online high stakes cash games are tough and slowly but surely in decline for many years. So the potential profit is sort of capped online, but on the other hand there is no denying, that online is far more convenient. So it depends on your goals and situation. There are also a lot of people, who dont have access to good live games anywhere near the place, they live.
Yes and all of this is just nonsense and certainly not a good reason to choose live games over online games.
Cheating also happen in live poker. Have you heard about Mike Postle for instance?
alucaa
Rock Star
Platinum Level
Personally, I prefer to play at home and online, but speaking about the face-to-face game mode, I think that if, if you don't know how to control yourself, you could give your opponents information about your hand, small gestures could make you lose a bluff. In addition, since I'm used to playing online, I'm not really content with my sjjasjs gestures, I'm very expressive and that makes it more difficult to hide the value of your hand. I don't know if this problem happens to a lot of people, but I've seen that people like to drink when they play and that helps to discover more about your rival and causes some people to lose money.