There are four things i do not like at a table, 1] some one next to me that has not showered, 2] a person with a hat, 3] a slow player,4] someone that wants to talk football.
I took it to mean that if the average internet player sat down with the average live player, the internet player would eat the live player for lunch. Whether this be live, online, or underwater.
I said something about how can this loose table fold around....Dealer says....well you have to play more than one hand every 20 minutes....I didn't play REALLY terribly, I was just way outclassed.
Another guy who I had played with all week and thought was cool, hit and run someone else on an even bigger pot ($600ish I think) a couple days later. The whole table was pissed about that and even more pissed when he showed back up at another table in the room about 20 minutes later.
What's wrong with #2? (unshowered)
Right. To some it's the smell of money.
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Zack, I almost feel like your attacking my original post.
I'll repeat it just to make sure its clear. I didn't make this post to attack internet college kids. Thats where a lot of people start, and its natural for someone without a lot of table experience to be out of their element. Just as a live player would be out of their element on the internet.
Online poker is very different from live games. More people need to accept this, and be aware of it in topics when we are making comparisons about the two. Also, this was a 2/5 game, not a 1/2. There is a very big difference between the two games in most casino's. (On a side note...The Borgota seems to have a pretty loose 2/5 usually).
And Zack, one of the biggest things that separates cash game players is their game selection. In live games it easy to see who the tourists are and it would be dumb not to want to play with. When I walk into the card room I look for 2/5s with people I don't recognize because thats usually a good sign. Its not as profitable to sit and raise blinds with the regular grinders. It would be a bad play to pick that game over one full of tourists. Don't attack live games for being full of tourists and tell me that I'm an elitist for playing them. Anyone that chooses to play in the harder game is the one that should be made fun of.
Sorry, wasn't attacking anyone, but if I were, it was people like Double-A suggesting the subtle shots at the kid. That's what kinda pissed me off. If they're messing up and aren't experienced with live play, just let them know. It's common courtesy. Don't try to drop subtle hints to further embarrass them.
Then another guy starts going on about how they aren't playing 5 tables and they have to play more cards or no one will play with them. It got to the point where when the one kid raised the entire table would talk about how no one should play the hand.
If a new player isn't tipping then I'll wait to tip and ask the dealer if I missed him. Or I'll throw him 2 and say the extra one is incase I miss him next time. They'll get it sooner or later.
I took it to mean that if the average internet player sat down with the average live player, the internet player would eat the live player for lunch. Whether this be live, online, or underwater.
Double A was right on the money. What would be embarrassing would be for someone to call you out on not tipping. I don't understand why being gently nudged in the right direction would anger you so. Then you go on to berate live players. We are all here to play poker, live or online, so why can't we just all get along.Sorry, wasn't attacking anyone, but if I were, it was people like Double-A suggesting the subtle shots at the kid. That's what kinda pissed me off. If they're messing up and aren't experienced with live play, just let them know. It's common courtesy. Don't try to drop subtle hints to further embarrass them.
I'm also sorry about my characterization of live poker. I've never set foot inside a casino so have no idea how it is. I just know that every single person I've talked to that said they played live (most of which I knew and played online) have said it was the softest game they had ever played in. Now they're probably going over the weekends and playing 1/2, where the tourists are. I've just heard from people who say they've played both that 1/2 online is probably tougher than the 5/10 live games. That's all I'm going off of.
Also, not a huge deal, but it's Zach not Zack.
Also my posts weren't exactly geared at CC members either. It's geared at the live players who think they are the shit and that online players all suck at live poker. It's the same game and many of the online players are much better than the live players. That goes from people like Hellmuth looking down on Durrr to just a common perception among amateurs and grinders ("well you may be able to play behind your computer screen, but can you play with the big boys?"-like comments). Sorry if you felt I was ripping on you.
Double A was right on the money. What would be embarrassing would be for someone to call you out on not tipping. I don't understand why being gently nudged in the right direction would anger you so. Then you go on to berate live players. We are all here to play poker, live or online, so why can't we just all get along.
Well maybe it's just me, but I'd prefer to be told straight up what I'm messing up with, not given subtle hints I may or may not pick up on.
And I did NOT berate live players. I berated live players "who think they are the shit and that online players all suck at live poker".
lol at "live" players making fun of an internet player-- live players are the absolute WORST.
Now that is just craziness.
I have a feeling what you mean is live players, if they played the way they do live, at internet tables might not do so well.
Or do you really mean you think they are "the absolute WORST"?
Perhaps I am just gullible?
cAPS
I took it to mean that if the average internet player sat down with the average live player, the internet player would eat the live player for lunch. Whether this be live, online, or underwater.
The quotes below tell a different story.
Zach you have nothing to worry about because the first time you play live I will be at the table with you and I got you covered! There are just a few things you might need to get used to - but you are lucky that you will have a few friends to help you out with those things.
It's really not a big deal at all - you will be comfortable after one game.
Thanks, I really am lucky . I was just trying to add a little perspective to things here. Even though I'll have good friends to help me out, it's a lot to take in for the first time. Now imagine if instead of going with friends who are good at poker and knowledgable about playing I went with a friend who I just dragged along (I think icemonkey used that reference) or another friend who hadn't played in a casino before. I'm just saying that's probably how some of these kids feel. I have heard that dealers are usually nice and will help you out if you let them know it's your first time live, but I'm sure especially tipping is awkward. It's obvious not required, but pretty much common ettiquette to do it. Personally I have no idea how much is customary to tip. And although the dealer can help you out, I can imagine it'd be kinda awkward for him to suggest that the new player tip him. Just trying to get people to think about how other people are feeling. Remember the saying, before you criticize someone walk a mile in their shoes. Then you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes (stole that from a forum sig, forget if it's this one or another one).
EVERY SINGLE PERSON I've talked to has said the live game will play similar to a 1c/2c game online and that I'd probably find the live 5/10 games easier than the online 1/2 games. That's why I say from what I understand online players in general are better. Not that every live player sucks, not that every online player is good, but overall ON AVERAGE (I believe that was the term I used), online players are better than live players at the corresponding level.
I have a problem with this argument. I played a lot of online poker in college, and was lucky enough to live close to a casino afterwords. I am a teacher, and do nothing but play cards in my free time. Summers, holidays, nights, I average about 4 days a week in the card room. I have a lot of table experience, and consider myself a decent live cash game player.
I hear this argument a lot, "internet guys see so many more hands so they have so much more experience". At a basic level it does make sense, you can play 4+ tables at a time seeing more hands at every table. The flaw in the argument is the way you comprehend the hands you see. You are only playing premium hands and only paying attention to the games in which you get one of these hands. An internet guy generally doesn't have to take in information when they have bad hands. They can just switch to another tab and click the check/fold button if they don't see something they like. They are playing their hand only, and nothing else.
Internet guys see a lot more hands, but they don't see how they play out. The pay less attention to the other players at the table because it much harder to keep track of 36 other people than it is 9; and are generally just waiting to see good cards dealt to them.
OK. Before My post gets taken completely out of context. I was referring to Multi-tabling in cash games. (not heads up)
Heads up and tourneys are completely different stories.