Old school vs new school

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I think the old school is held up mainly because of its reputation. Since there are simply no new famous players from the old school. There are old people who hold on. The game of poker is constantly evolving, which means players must
 
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It is always new school, meta game for poker is dynamic. What we do today will be different than 5 years from now. What worked now can be exploited by a new model. That being said, what works for 1 level would not make any sense at another level of play. 1/2NL 150BB is vastly different than say 100/200NL 300BB deep.

Pluribus already show that they are different ways to play. And if the meta game shift I am sure AI will find new exploits.
 
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I don't think Daniel Negreanu and Phil Ivey are old school ...
 
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I don't think Daniel Negreanu and Phil Ivey are old school ...


Negreanu and Ivey both started their careers before online poker existed. Therefore by definition they are old school as the metric we use is those who developed their game in casinos/card rooms as opposed to those who built their skills online.

That has nothing to do with whether they have transitioned, or remain competitive. Seidel, Negreanu and Ivey all remain competitive to degree but none of them compete with the same regularity in high rollers such as the likes of Chidwick, Kenney and Koon etc.
 
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Without a doubt I prefer the old school, perhaps it is true that the new school today is a step forward, but there is a greater possibility even in the old school to stand out above all.
 
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If were comparing new school you mean the online beasts vs old school live players depends where there playing,if online advantage goes to the online pro's,if there playing live advantage goes to old school,playing online they have tools that they use ,when live its just them big advantage to old school,all that time behind a screen doesn't help you when you play live and interact who knows what tells they have that their not aware of
 
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Stay in school kids! AKA the best players whether old or new are always learning and implementing new strategies.
 
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Just a new school. The main thing is that the new school does not teach at the old school.
 
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Nowadays technology has removed the romanticism that poker has. Playing online is not the same as playing live. There are two different poker categories, although with the same rules.

I prefer to play live, but I understand that playing online allows me to see flops.
 
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I’m from the old school of poker, I believe that the right thing is to play believe your intuition, enter the table just to win, and break the parameters of the probability, and most importantly respect the whether you are a veteran or a novice.;)
 
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Nowadays technology has removed the romanticism that poker has. Playing online is not the same as playing live. There are two different poker categories, although with the same rules.

I prefer to play live, but I understand that playing online allows me to see flops.


I think similarly, it is an other mainstream connected, let's divide something what obviously useless, pointless, except you want to divide and conquer. It is not the case in poker.

I also think live and online the 2 categories what you can make, if it is very necessary. Especially, all the posts here focus for 2 things:

1., technology, tools, 'education' stuff - everything was given before black friday, a decade ago, when the poker was on the top, both live and online. (Otherwise all these are available nowadays, too, to anyone, and it is not atom physics, that cannot adopt, especially by individuals whose in the main flow since decades, obviously, if something significantly changes to better direction, and the given individual do not adopt it, he will disappear... common sense, as it is about money, especially on high stakes, what players they mentioned above... like business world, if you can't survive, beat the rest, you will disappear, soon...)

2., The few decade long sponsored characters, whose stayed in the focus, mostly because they are connected to any room, they are face of a site. So average poker player do not know anyone else. Meantime, the live tourneys 10-15 years ago was full with characteristhic players, you had plenty options to watch it, as even it was popular in television, plenty sports channels' night program was all the time poker, example, and not only night.
Next to the biggest live events, plenty smaller - still huge - were held all around the world. Also online, you had more rooms, players, options to choose where and what you play

I do not think so it is worth to try comparing or dividing, what you can't, as it makes no sense, at least, not for me.
 
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Regardless of new or old school, what really matters is the results. I think that a "hybrid" way of playing where we can use a little of each modality, whether new or old, to obtain maximum efficiency and effectiveness in the results of the tournaments.
 
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still go by old school but never really played in that era but if you cant get no one to fold it dont matter
 
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I prefer to play online and I'm partt of the newschool, I would never play live and I prefer it, if my alias ever gets famous, my real name won't. I like that,
 
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'Old school" players adapt and learn as well, or they disappear. I think that, especially in live games, the old school players hold a small edge in that their 'reads' can make the correct decision over the math more often than not.
 
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Old school = live action
New school = online action
 
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The main thing is that poker will live on, and there will always be new ideas and new strategies. there is no one correct strategy for poker. poker is not played by cards, but by players.
 
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The new school is better prepared, they play thousands of tournaments and hands online.
 
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Today that players are one step ahead. Old school (Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, etc) or new school (Linus Loeliger, Adrian Mateos, etc)?
I guess I'm old school 'cause I don't even know who those new school guys are.
 
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I'm oldschool, slow and steady wins the race.
 
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The old school has to be respected, without these names we would never have poker with the status it has today. But poker is constantly evolving, the old school folks wouldn't keep up with the younger ones, wouldn't keep 20 tables at the same time with the same performance, as well as in a one-on-one clash, without software and all the trappings of online professionals, I certainly believe these names like Negreanu and Doyle Brunson, they would do better.
 
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Like an other kind of sports Poker is evolves, so sure I bet on the new school but respect to old school.
 
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The old school advantage is the fact that their players, updated, accumulate the old and new altogether.
 
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