white_lytning
Rock Star
Silver Level
I'd like to start this thread with the generals. First..I don't want anyone to think that I'm persuading people not to play online poker. If you enjoy it, good, I wish you the best of luck. The following are my problems and reasoning for not playing myself.
1. The "foreign" effect.
No. Not the amount of foreigners that play. I just wasn't sure what to call this. Online poker does not feel real. It feels like I'm playing a computer game with nothing on the line. I am too distant from cash, and money, and players and chips. It takes something away from it for me.
2. The solidarity of it.
I don't want to say its boring, but I guess it kind of is. Sitting..alone....behind a computer screen......for hours....and hours....and hours. It kinda looses its fun factor after a while.
3. The quality of players.
I'm a realist. I like live games because the players are so much worse. I can play 2/5 and make decent money. There are far fewer fish online than there in live play. United States legal policy and the economy have really influenced online play. I used to play online a lot about 3 or 4 years ago. I still sign on every once in a while when I have an hour to kill. The quality of play has gotten so much better. And the amount of people that are not playing seriously has dropped. Its a much harder game to beat and playing for dimes and quarters to build a bankroll is just not worth it to me.
4. All the extra edges people have.
This is a big one for me and maybe deserves its own topic. I really don't think that using pokertracker or any of these 3rd pary programs should be allowed. I think it gives players that use them a huge unfair advantage that go unmatched to the players that don't use them. The fact that you can buy player hand histories from certain sites and use them in your games is not right. You have never played with a certain person, yet you are able to see their last 10,000 hands. Its too much computer, and too little person.
Multi accounting goes in this same catagory. Its just not fair that players can share accounts or use more than one account. And its too hard to keep track of and monitor.
Bots..I mean come on. I used Bots in D2LOD. The fact that you can use a Bot to play poker is 1) kind of sad for the people it is continuously beating. 2) kind of sad that these sites allow it. 3) Makes you wonder about what kind of computer programs people can use to manipulate these sites.
Cheating is also in this. There have been numerous cheaters found, and scandles rumored. Its too hard to beleive that everyone is playing on the same field when every where you look there are people doing everything they can to get an edge.
There are just too many x factors that people use online. The protection of the internet is a problem for online poker.
I understand that online poker is a different game completely than live poker. I'm simply stating my reasons for not playing it, and wondering what others think.
1. The "foreign" effect.
No. Not the amount of foreigners that play. I just wasn't sure what to call this. Online poker does not feel real. It feels like I'm playing a computer game with nothing on the line. I am too distant from cash, and money, and players and chips. It takes something away from it for me.
2. The solidarity of it.
I don't want to say its boring, but I guess it kind of is. Sitting..alone....behind a computer screen......for hours....and hours....and hours. It kinda looses its fun factor after a while.
3. The quality of players.
I'm a realist. I like live games because the players are so much worse. I can play 2/5 and make decent money. There are far fewer fish online than there in live play. United States legal policy and the economy have really influenced online play. I used to play online a lot about 3 or 4 years ago. I still sign on every once in a while when I have an hour to kill. The quality of play has gotten so much better. And the amount of people that are not playing seriously has dropped. Its a much harder game to beat and playing for dimes and quarters to build a bankroll is just not worth it to me.
4. All the extra edges people have.
This is a big one for me and maybe deserves its own topic. I really don't think that using pokertracker or any of these 3rd pary programs should be allowed. I think it gives players that use them a huge unfair advantage that go unmatched to the players that don't use them. The fact that you can buy player hand histories from certain sites and use them in your games is not right. You have never played with a certain person, yet you are able to see their last 10,000 hands. Its too much computer, and too little person.
Multi accounting goes in this same catagory. Its just not fair that players can share accounts or use more than one account. And its too hard to keep track of and monitor.
Bots..I mean come on. I used Bots in D2LOD. The fact that you can use a Bot to play poker is 1) kind of sad for the people it is continuously beating. 2) kind of sad that these sites allow it. 3) Makes you wonder about what kind of computer programs people can use to manipulate these sites.
Cheating is also in this. There have been numerous cheaters found, and scandles rumored. Its too hard to beleive that everyone is playing on the same field when every where you look there are people doing everything they can to get an edge.
There are just too many x factors that people use online. The protection of the internet is a problem for online poker.
I understand that online poker is a different game completely than live poker. I'm simply stating my reasons for not playing it, and wondering what others think.
