[Garland]

I'll put in my two cents.

I've played in casinos in Las Vegas and San Francisco as well as Los Angeles.

I play a lot of online and I used to play live more often, but now it's a once in awhile thing. I find that live play tends to be more loose. Why?

It's pretty simple. A lot of players who play live play for the action, and quite simply they often get only 30-35 hands an hour and will often lose patience and play marginal hands. Folding for an hour straight sucks.

Online, you get as many as twice as many hands per hour and you can play 4 (or even more!) tables at the same time. So that's about 8 times the action! Many people will multi-table and will tentatively be tighter as the next hand or decision will be about 3 or 4 seconds away. It's a safer way to fix their need for being an action junkie. Although I get 8 times the hands per hour, I probably make less per hand than in live play.

Garland