Online or Offline that is the question

samspuds

Just wondering which type of tournaments people prefer. I myself prefer playing with the lads or a organised event in a pub, casino, etc, but would like to know what the general poker players prefer playing in. Do you think that the real poker players ar in offline events as you can read the opposition, or do you think it is the complete opposite?

jimmii

It takes slightly different skills to play each well. Online players tend to have a better technical understanding of the game and, in my opinion, are tougher than live players playing at the same level.

Tar.Aldarion

I prefer live, I'm better. I don't like using stats online, and I prefer to try and read a player.

Glowingmind

I'll take a live tourney of an online one any day of the week. The only reason i'd play more online games than live ones is purely down to my own time constraints and weird working hours.

IHAVEACAT

i prefer online myself i think im equally good at live but i prefer being able to lie on my sofa or get something to eat (comforts)etc.etc and most of the time there is always a decnt mtt on any given site

5starpool

Definitely live for me. For some reason I can't really get into the whole online poker thing. Apathy is a curse at times.

jimmii

More money online but more fun live.

luckylucky

I've only played live a few times (well besides scores of draw poker games in pubs in my youth). I have been really shocked by how bad players are in cash games in live games. I think any winning online player unless he/she was practically giving off point blank obvious tells would beat live games of the same equivalent level of what they win at online.

I'd love to play live more, but alas it's not practical for me to do so

bops

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

I prefer live, I'm better. I don't like using stats online, and I prefer to try and read a player.

also more fun & sociable

Slash/ED

Online bores me, and so it also means I'll play like sh-t too. Mind you, that's probably because I've never invested enough in online poker to play the limits I'd play live. It's difficult to force yourself to care about making the mathmatically correct call for a pot of a fiver.

phantom_lord

live is incredibly boring, playing 25 hands an hour at best, putting up with morons talking crap at the table, plus higher rake and tips. The only positive is that the standard is usually awful.

fabsoul

phantom_lord wrote:

live is incredibly boring, playing 25 hands an hour at best, putting up with morons talking crap at the table, plus higher rake and tips. The only positive is that the standard is usually awful.

true, a lot of the players are awful.

IHAVEACAT

phantom_lord wrote:

live is incredibly boring, playing 25 hands an hour at best, putting up with morons talking crap at the table, plus higher rake and tips. The only positive is that the standard is usually awful.

is it just me or are my live swings worse than my online swings?

bops

phantom_lord wrote:

live is incredibly boring, playing 25 hands an hour at best, putting up with morons talking crap at the table, plus higher rake and tips. The only positive is that the standard is usually awful.

playing in dublin it can be very boring, usualy listening to know-it-all knobs, but down in the sticks in can be great craic - i generally play in a few different venues with lots of poker buddies - i find it more enjoyable than going for a few pints (jeeez im a sad case)

LuckyLloyd

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phantom_lord

IHAVEACAT wrote:

is it just me or are my live swings worse than my online swings?

probably just seems like it, since you can play about a months worth of live hands in a night online. so a 30k downswing would appear to last forever live, while it'd be fairly standard online.

IHAVEACAT

LuckyLloyd wrote:

They are the same. They just seem worse, because a 4k hands patch of bad variance could equate to six weeks of live play.

it was retorical but thx

IHAVEACAT

phantom_lord wrote:

probably just seems like it, since you can play about a months worth of live hands in a night online. so a 30k downswing would appear to last forever live, while it'd be fairly standard online.

i know i know i was just jesting

redzerdrog

i prefer to play live because i play higher stakes live than i do online and i enjoy getting out and about plus having a little brother wrecking my head doesnt help my consentration online.
I am probly a better live player aswell as i try to use my reads as best i can.

guubert

live is real poker

Mr.Plough

both can be boring in their own ways.

i dont enjoy sitting in front of a screen smoking for 6 hours compared to sitting at a table, with a wait-er/ress, playing with chips, and overall being more social.

but if you go card dead live play can be brutal. multitabling online your card dead alot less.

i play smaller stakes online than live, but the standard of 0.25/0.50 is much better than 1/2 live imo, so more money to be made live(for me)

IHAVEACAT

Mr.Plough wrote:

both can be boring in their own ways.

i dont enjoy sitting in front of a screen smoking for 6 hours compared to sitting at a table, with a wait-er/ress, playing with chips, and overall being more social.

but if you go card dead live play can be brutal. multitabling online your card dead alot less.

i play smaller stakes online than live, but the standard of 0.25/0.50 is much better than 1/2 live imo, so more money to be made live(for me)

i see where u are coming from but if i lets say 6-10 table 1/2 or 2/4 online my profit will far exceed that of playing in a live 1/2 game full of deep nits. i like to play live its more fun and sociable but i like to make money more so i think live is better. but its all about what you want from poker.

Mr.Plough

IHAVEACAT wrote:

i see where u are coming from but if i lets say 6-10 table 1/2 or 2/4 online my profit will far exceed that of playing in a live 1/2 game full of deep nits. i like to play live its more fun and sociable but i like to make money more so i think live is better. but its all about what you want from poker.

i was saying that my profit live is greater because i play 1/2 live and 0.25/0.50 online.

if i was multitabling 1/2 online of course online would be much more profitable

IHAVEACAT

Mr.Plough wrote:

i was saying that my profit live is greater because i play 1/2 live and 0.25/0.50 online.

if i was multitabling 1/2 online of course online would be much more profitable

u missed it. dont u think if you 8-10 tabled 0.25/0.50 online your pph would be grater than playing 1/2. the swings would also be less fierce and by playing vastly more hands aginst better players u in turn will become a more competent player.

luckylucky

IHAVEACAT wrote:

i see where u are coming from but if i lets say 6-10 table 1/2 or 2/4 online my profit will far exceed that of playing in a live 1/2 game full of deep nits. i like to play live its more fun and sociable but i like to make money more so i think live is better. but its all about what you want from poker.

You say play 6-10 1-2 or 2-4 tables online like it's a piece of cake. Not so many can sustain that imo over along period of time, do you play that many?

busted flush

much more perfer live . holdem espically! time is the big problem as generally to make any dough you will have to put in the hours so leaving at 2/3 am is a bummer

IHAVEACAT

luckylucky wrote:

You say play 6-10 1-2 or 2-4 tables online like it's a piece of cake. Not so many can sustain that imo over along period of time, do you play that many?

yes i do i play from 6-10 tables every time i sit down unles im playing an mtt then ill just play 2 cash tables on 1 screen and 1 screen for the mtt. i dont mean to say its like a piece of cake. i didnt start of 6 tabling i added tables over time.i think 10 tabling is my max though anymore than that i feel that it would to too much harm to be covered by the potential profit.

i understand some people cant sustain that but if you condidtioned urself over a period of time i think it is achievable for any profitable player. start of 2 tabling and add 1 when u feel confident. dont play moree than 4 tables on 1 screen imo.

what i was trying to say was that people who play the lives game usually say they do because they are alot weaker than online=more $$$,but i think u could make equal profit playing lowers satkes online and make more profit while having more benefits(morehands=moreexperience, comfort of ur own home,alot smaller swingsetc.etc)

4+ tabling is pretty standard no?