Casino Pros Are Dinosaurs

[B Dids]

"If the live player is a tyrannosaur, online guy doesn't stand a chance. "

Clearly the best post in this thread.

[ZenMusician]

Where is that guy "Obviously not a Tyrannosaurus"?

-ZEN

[bernie]

Everything being the same, if both were playing live, I'd take the Casino guy longterm. He's more used to playing through bad swings that last, time-wise, much longer than an online guy would likely experience.

20+k hands is alot different live than it is online.

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[lighterjobs]

I know a guy who moved from here (tulsa) to be a poker pro in atlantic city (he has family there) around 2001. i didn't know anything about poker at the time but i've started talking to him recently about it online. he said he started out playing 5-10 and now plays 75-150 daily. he said he would never play online for a living because he finds it to be boring and more of a grind. granted, he could definately make more online, but he likes live action more. plus, if you're averaging 1bb/hr at a 75 game, you will have a pretty good living if you are a solid player.

[phish]

He must not be very good to be beating those 75/150 stud games for only 1 bet/hour.

[lighterjobs]

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He must not be very good to be beating those 75/150 stud games for only 1 bet/hour.

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he's not.

[I am fish]

Yeah, 150$ an hour is terrible.

[uncleshady]

Honestly many of the old casino regulars (ie not pros where I play..) dont know what to do with the online guys that come through. We are too aggressive and too analytical. The softness of the live game kicked me in the balls the first night, but after adjusting, the old guys dont want anything to do with me. The real problem is going from playing live a few weeks in a soft environment back to playing a tight online game. -EV. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[ThaHero]

Playing live you will not burn out as quickly as you would online, if at all. Especially multi-tabling, which does take a mental toll.

I think that if two people started playing for the first time today, the online guy would progress much quicker than the B&M guy, simply because of the enormous amount of hands that would be played caompared to the B&M. I'm not sure I agree that a new online pro is a favorite over a B&M pro with 20+ years of experience. By the way, I suck at both, but seem to suck less at B&M.