online or live?
For some reason i want to play live poker. i dont even know why?
Its slow and i dont even like playing full ring.
I guess im romanticing how you can travel and play, socialize, make insane reads, walk away eith cash (if its a winning session) and all that.
i gave it a few shots but ran really bad. it wasnt fun.
Online is more interesting. i like online. its fast, i can multi table, i like playing 6 max and the occasional head-up, and i run good. plus i dont have to put up with the drunk and that over talkative dude thats trying to teach me how to play poker.
Even if its the same game, its played so differently. Online every other hand is either 3bet and 4bet. live, everyone is coming in cheap with a limp or a 2bet and nut peddle postflop. Somehow i am better able to navigate online then in live. Im like a little fish swimming in the live environment.
Should i give up playing live completely or should i give it another go and try my luck? Or should i strictly call my pc and my desk home base?
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Depends what you want from the game, but I think unless you are playing high stakes, online is better in most ways.
I play exclusively online but would play live if I had a decent casino within range of me. I love the social element of poker but online these days players are like mute robots who rarely ever say anything.
That rare thing happened tonight when I got owned by a player who bet for value on the river and I called. He/she then wrote "Welcome to Valuetown. Population: 1(you)."
Live.
They are two completely different games so its a matter of preference. Also, dont be fooled- theres a lot of drunks online poker too unfortunately and a lot of Bingo and fish who get lucky. Theres pros and cons
Live is better for many reasons, the main one being that the games are much easier. In live you're not playing against nerds who eat, sleep and breathe poker. You're not up against GTO bots and players who play like bots (running calculators on another device or cheating in some other way).
Then there's the social aspects of live poker, along with its upsides and downsides. You're going to be around all kinds of people and get to interact with and experience the varied personalities and temperaments out in the world. If you're savvy and have a bit of smarts, you can make connections and build your network. Many professionals and businessmen play the game recreationally. Play you cards right and you could open doors that you didn't know existed, both literally and figuratively.
There aren't any positives without the negatives, and the negatives of live poker are something you're likely to experience very quick. Gambling tends to bring out some of the worse elements of people's natures. Emotions and ego mixed with monetary risk can be a recipe for animosity and nastiness. You will see a lot of angry, miserable ****s in you average poker rooms, mostly at the lower stakes. It's also a predatory game by its very nature. This tends to attract more than your average share of unethical scumbags and other unsavory characters. YMMV on that last point.
If you want to make more money with less variance and not having to be as good, live is the obvious choice lol
Not to say that a lot of better players are multitabling, making their proportion in the online field even larger.
