[damaniac]

Ok thanks, interesting stuff, but I guess maybe I'd like more on the why.

One thing is going to be sample size, especially live. Unless we're looking at years of play or months of full-time play, the number of live hands just aren't going to mean that much, while you can get at least a semi-reasonable amount of online hands in a much shorter amount of time, so it's quite possible for someone to be a very marginal winner or break-even player online and then run good over say 10k hands live, which might translate into 300 hours, or 50 trips to the casino. For a guy who is semi-serious and plays maybe once a week, that's an entire year, yet the sample isn't that large.

But I guess what I was really going for was, if you have some very fundamental weaknesses or misunderstandings that cause you to lose when you play online, is there any reason to suppose that you would be able to make up or otherwise get around them live? If so, how? I guess there are enough people who do well live and not online, and maybe even a few where it isn't a sample size issue, but I just can't see the reason for a solid, fundamental shift in their winrate.