What makes online play so much looser than brick games? It is amazing how much different people play when they are at a table at a casino.
What makes online play so much looser than brick games? It is amazing how much different people play when they are at a table at a casino.
I agree with your thoughts, besides less respect for money a lot of on line players have no respect for any one else at the table,also there are a few that are so rude & crude.A few reasons why online games are looser:
1) Youth (I would venture to say not all players are legally of age) + fearless = reckless luck box
2) Doesn't feel like real money. Process through your credit card or through a freeroll and you never have to reach into your purse and shell out cold, hard cash that you slaved for all week. There is less respect for money.
3) Micro stakes. Not too many places that I've seen where you can play for as little as 1/2 micro limits live. At a brick place 1/2 means $1/$2 not $.01/$.02. With so little at stakes why not take some crazy risk. So you lose a buck or two...so what.
4) New players who have no idea what they are doing, so they are experimenting with their own system to see what works or not. Unfortunately they suck out at your(mine) expense.
I've always thought it was the other way around - low buy-in casino ring games (so $200-$500NL) are about as loose as poker gets. Here's why, AFAIK:
- People are only playing one table at a time and they're not seeing that many hands per hour. So they're more inclined to play the ones they do get dealt.
- The quality of the play is usually so bad that people think any two cards can win.
- There are a lot more pure gamblers (as opposed to poker-only players) at casino tables because they can just walk away from the craps table and sit down at poker. You can't sit down at an online poker table on a whim, you need to sign up and deposit.
- There's more drunks.
All these things = LOL loads of people playing loads of hands in live games.