[jba]

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I hate playing live. So slow, and such ridiculous rake/tips. If it weren't for online poker, I probably wouldn't play at all.

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I was thinking about this while I was playing live last weekend.

While I enjoy playing live, I don't think I could ever play as much as I do. For me, at least, the beats you take live are 100 times worse. It's one thing for your AA to get cracked when you're playing 250 hands/hr four tabling (note you're getting AA more than 1/hr), it's another thing entirely when the cards are running bad and you've folded every hand for two hours straight, and then AA gets cracked, and you must calmly resign yourself to folding for the next thirty minutes...