Which do you prefer live or online?

I seem to prefer online becasue it is more convenient and you dont have to sit around a crowded table and deal with the hassle of driving out of your way to get to the nearest poker room.

I recently had a physical altercation because some idiot couldn't take a beat without crying and decided to wait outside for me. I much prefer online where I can just mute them and move on.

I love live more then online...and hear is why.....live i can make more play can see your tells and can be very aggressive, compar to online where pot odds are against you and you get more lucky then live games.

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Oh and don't forget that live players are softer (on average) than on-line

Live:

A. Because it's actually REAL poker, not a math/computer game

B. Solid play is better rewarded live in shorter periods of time/hands vs. hundreds of thousands of hands (on average) to get rewarded with solid play online.

C. More meta game/psychology involved live vs more math online.

D. Everyone is on the same playing field live, real shuffle, etc - no huds, poker genius, etc.

Oh and don't forget that live players are softer (on average) than on-line

For the most part true but it also depends on a number of things like stakes, location, time of day/week, table, etc. Personally, I play to make money so my goal is to find the softest table possible,

I prefer online because I don't have to tip the dealer

definitly live, for all the reasons above and also i love the intensity of live play. its harder for someone to push all on you when they are right in front of you cause they have to hold their shit together and cant be yelling at the screen "fold, please fold, if u call im busted!". and cause live players are softer(on average) then on-line.

For me, it depends on various factors that can vary depending on the circumstances. Since I play mainly small buyin MTTs ($5 and less), there isn't much live play available to compare against.

My one big live exposure was a $7000 tournament I satellited into. I haven't made it into anything nearly that high online, but it's hard to imagine I'd prefer a big buyin online tournament since the live event comes with a far more extensive overall experience.

I've never played live, do they mind if you sit in your underwear and read pornography while at the tables? If not I think I prefer on-line.


Sorry, just joking. lol.

Guys, I heard somewhere that live players are softer (on average) than on-line.

Is this true?

i definitely prefer live, even though im weaker live than online. It seems more like a real game to me. i play online more, but the psychology and tells aspect is just so appealing to me. Taking down a big pot live is just so much more satisfying.

well i prefer live as i can actually see who is on the table. i just got back from 3 days in vegas and took down a $50 bounty tourney and won some good money playing 2/4 limit. i played a bit of no limit and made good money but the wait for a table was way to long. online is what i do just to play when i cant get a live game. online players for some reason are real loose but also always hit against me. i could be winning a hand with the second nuts and always lose to the 1st. its the story of my life. live cash and tourney games are way better. u never see the snap calls and all ins u do when playing online. dont get me wrong online is very lucrative and it is in the comfort of your home but nothing beats the adrenaline rush knowing u took someone down and they start talking trash to u face to face. lol

I was playing at a small private game, tournament format, just a $10 buy in and I was shortstacked so I made a somewhat loose call on the flop that put me all in. The better was the big blind who had only min raised preflop. I had a strong flush draw and a straight draw but I knew I was behind. I'll even admit my preflop call with KQ suited and with less than optimum position was not a great play. The guy who went all in had pocket aces and the board gave him a set. He was a little ticked when I hit my flush on the river. Didn't knock him out but crippled him and he quickly went on tilt. He spent the rest of his very short tourney whining and crying about the bad beat. I ignored it for a while and then, when I got tired of it, told him to stop crying and learn to take a beat without going on tilt. He then starts yelling and screaming and threatening me until the host made him leave.

When the game was over (I finished 2nd) and I went out to get my bike for a long ride home this idiot was outside waiting for me. Yelling and screaming that he was gonna kick my "fat, old man ass". I didn't want to fight, it was 5 in the morning, I was tired, he was drunk and I was perfectly willing to let it go. But he wasn't.

Long story short, he quickly found out that youth is not enough to negate 6 inches, a hundred pounds and twenty more years of experience. I actually feel kind of bad about it. And I hurt my shoulder...I took a header off my bike a few years ago and injured it, and of course, not having been in a fight since then, threw several punches with that arm. Hurt like hell.

So yeah, I prefer online poker. When someone cries and whines I can mute them. Nobody ever tracks me down after a bad beat online looking to kick my ass. And I never have to ice my shoulder the next day.

me personaly i like online its convientent but down side is sometimes u feel like the game is rigged. live is good cuz u can read your oppent alot better even with eye contact n such . i like online more then live

Best bad beat story ever!

Sorry about your shoulder....

Definatly Online...
1. Can Mute the idiots.
2. No drive, No Tips, No Smoking (speaking of home games there)
3. Can play a wider range of stakes.
4. When youre done, youre 20' away from your bed.

Live, i find it hard to take online poker seriously...

Raise.

Villain is almost always bluffing here. He's drunk right? No reason to believe we are being out leveled. Classic "strong means weak".

Come and live in Oz we don't tip anyone we are such tight asses.

I am forced to play online. We do not have casinos close by ... would be expensive to go live. Also, I like the "mute" capability of turning off nonsense and rudeness ... which is difficult to deal with live I should think. Far too many folks don't know how to behave politely at the table ... a lost art.

And that thing is a good old dust up! Great game! drunk idiots. Where would

homegames be without em? not nearly as much fun

obv

IMO it's like comparing limit to NL two completely different games. I personally

love both.Online for the convienence. But you can't beat Live games for a

complete Poker experience. The sights the sounds and oh yes, even the smells(

you know that dude who wouldn't know a Bar a soap if he tripped over it) The

social aspect can be the best and worst part of Live play IMO depending on the

mix of players. I guess coz I play more Online than Live I see live as treat when

I do play. So I will say LIVE!

LMAO classic TAG reaction to Strength. straight over the top! put The Villian to the test!

Amazing bad beat story cant say anyone has wanted to kick my ass over a river card before! Really made me chuckle not the instance just the fact that someone got that upset over a card! Have to say tho live is much better just the atmosphere of a card room is so much more of an experience than playing online but i do love the convienience of online so both have there plus points!

hey im from oz and i tip... only good looking brunettes, but hey its something

I can't find live venues that will take my 30cent buyins?
They don't have any 10,000+ field $1 tourneys in the town where I live.... as that'd exceed the total population.
I do like the oppurtunity to wait outside on occassion.... something I really miss online (when I'm wishing I could reach thru my monitor and throttle the loogan's neck.... "how do you call with that crap?"). Perhaps when some genius comes out with 'slap-a-donk.com' software, I won't have to drive to the casinos ever again?

Sounds like he got a double-donking with two badbeats in one night.

LMAO. I want slap-a-donk.com to come out now!!

Ouch dude. Young people will never learn that if u act like a ass, u'll be treated like one. We all tilt and get angry at the game at times, but there is never a need to wait for sum1 outside and try and hurt them :S I would of pushed the kid over n told him to go home lol.

I hate the people who snap call online with crap. My KK got busted twice by snap calls (I shove in the BB and A2o calls. WTF?? KK vs some loose donk w/ JTo. I 3bet + he snap shoves) by online micro MTT idiots.

Overall i'd say Live is better. More of a nice poker feel to it. Plus some of the people in my local card room are real kanny to talk to. But online is great for the reason that there is a wide range of games/stakes/structures to choose from that u can easily plug away 12hours of poker on ur PC. Plus bed is like 2ft away and I can happily smoke weed and play poker at the same time. Think the casino would kick me out 4 that lol.
Both are great IMO.

for the daily routine i prefer online, because of the comfort of my home, the variety of stakes and games, and the freerolls
i like playing live too, i dont do it very often, but in some ways i prefer live than online

Personally I would rather play live anyday of the week vs online. It is almost impossible to get a read off of someone you cant see. I like to think i can get a feel or a read off of people im playing with live. Plus live play has been much more profitable for me!!! Seems like luck is also on my side more while playing live.

Online is just more convenient in every way, except, of course, the whole depositing and withdrawal issues. You can't beat it.

Online because it's more convenient but live is fun because poker isn't the same if it isn't live you know what I maen?