What to do when you’re in the middle of horrible letters. And you just finished playing 7 tables online and are now playing 1 table live. It’s not an adjustment that many poker players can make, unfortunately many players make the switch from online to live and vice versa. The fact is that when you play online poker for a while and then switch to live games, you have to slow down a bit. I remember years ago the first live poker tournament I ever played with a $100+ buy-in, the owner of a highly respected poker site told me “you have to bring your 12 hour game, not your 6 hour game “. He referred to me playing online poker tournaments alone before and I did pretty well in them. I had to rebuy in this live tournament because I played too fast. I think there are big differences between live and online poker. Let’s look at some of the differences.
– Live poker is much slower so your patience should be better. A player could literally play 10 tables at once if he really wanted to.
– Online poker ads are limited to time patterns, betting patterns, hand selection, etc. Live poker adds the element of reading your opponent and his indications. On the other side of this equation, if you don’t read your opponents well, this element of live poker becomes a disadvantage to you, but only until you learn to read your opponents better than they read you.
– Online poker allows you to use whatever you want, yelling, yelling, cursing and sloppy eating at the poker table, all in the comfort of your own home. However, there are distractions while playing at home that just aren’t present in the casino poker room.
– When playing poker online, you don’t have to worry about making a mistake. No one can laugh at you because they can’t see you. If you don’t know how to play your chips or how to push them all-in, it doesn’t matter because you can simply hit the all-in button while playing online poker. In live poker, using chip tricks can be an effective way to scare your poker opponents.
– While playing live poker, you can withdraw your winnings immediately. This is also available at some online poker rooms, but at some online poker sites, you have to wait a certain number of hours after the first deposit or you are limited to a certain number of withdrawals in a week.
The all-around poker player of the future will be able to successfully break online and live games and consistently win at them. Poker tournaments and live games are increasing dramatically in size and it doesn’t look like they’re going to stop. Take advantage of your online game and show off your game on television That will be the poker professional of the 21st century.