Live players slagging onlne

Have heard this alot from my recent experinces of playing live. They all called on-line play a crapshoot. I tried to argue it's point about learning fundimentals and such like but they wouldn't have it.

Are they just trying to rile me or are they for real?

Live tournaments are as much of a crapshoot as online ones, especially tournaments with short blinds (30min) and short starting stacks. I've seen live tournaments with 100 entrants that had 1500 chips and the blinds at 25/50 at the start, with the blinds doubling up with each level (30min) and an ante at level 3. That, my friend, is a crapshoot.

And if they're talking cash game, well, they're probably meaning: "I can't get a read on a player, I can't see his face !", wich is laughable. Even moreso is the online poker is rigged and thus is a crapshoot.

jeff, posted in another thread, but Excalibur has a $35 buy-in $300 stack, 5/10 start with 15 minute blinds. 1.5 hour complete crap shoot... fun though

Fat Stu said:

Are they just trying to rile me or are they for real?

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Probably a little from column A and a little from column B.

You could just respond "Yeah? Well craps has the only true-odds bet on the casino floor, so how d'ya like them apples!", but chances are it'd just go unappreciated.

So I'd just ignore it.