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You guys weren't lying about live poker
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It is soft as hell compared to online. Sat down with $100 at 1/2 and ran it up to this which is about $700. Decided that I would keep playing until I dropped to $500 or got tired. Ended up losing $200 chasing a flush and open ended straight but it was worth it. I had fun and still walked away $400 richer.
I didn't play great at all but good enough. Just played my cards in position. Wasn't thinking much about ranges or blockers or anything. Just played my hands if the pot odds were good. My biggest issue was bet sizing. I'm used to online MTTs and it was an adjustment for sure. 3x bets wrent cutting it. I'm confident that if I had played just a little bit better I would have walked away with $700-1000.
The table was soft. Lots of degenerates, an omc, and this one maniac that was straddling every hand. The table was so soft I watched one other player walk away with $2k.
Anyways I had a ton of fun. Makes me not want to play online at all really. I want to thank this place for giving me the idea to go. You guys said it was soft and a lot of action and you weren't wrong. This was just some border town in Oregon and it was busy enough to get a few tables going. Live poker is not dead at all!
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Live 1/2
Is live poker a drastically different game than online?
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Yes I know online has a much higher skill level on average. But I feel live has so many more levels of play. On this subreddit people will comment to look for tells and they will be downvoted as if that is not a thing. I feel like people who don’t believe in tells must just play online poker. Body language and the way people put out their chips, the way people talk, betting habits absolutely are tells. It blows my mind people disregard this. A lot of casual players don’t even care about their obvious tells because they just want to play some friendly abc poker. Online you can only guess someones confidence based on their betting habits. Also in live poker you can convey confidence or anxiety in your body language. You can act anxious when you are really confident or vice versa. I feel like this is half of the game and online is just completely missing this. Another factor is I can’t remember who is who in online poker and it is much easier to remember details in live. I think online is good for improving fundamental poker skills but there is something about live poker that absolutely cannot be replicated. Online just feels like an empty shell, it’s not the game I love.
Is this sub just ignorant about live poker? Or do you guys think Im a dipshit? Or both? Please tell.
Top Comment: As someone who considers myself an online player but still has over 5000 hours logged live, live is drastically different than online but mostly due to a massive gap in skill. Its like the difference between university and kindergarten. I also think people massively underrate online players to adjust to a live setting. The biggest challenge for them is probably sheer boredom of getting 30 hands/hr when they're used to 300+/hr. Not all online regs are gto solver autists incapable of reading social/behavioral cues, and not all live pros are psychologist/body language experts.
Live Poker is Fun, But also the worst
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I recently moved to a new city where I don't know a single soul. So, I started going to the local poker room to hang out and talk to people. I am a new live player and I AM A COMPLETE FISH. Even though I struggle at being a competent player, I really have fun playing and the social aspect can be fun too. But, after a few weeks of going to the casino, I think I need a break. Here is how almost every table I have played at breaks down in the 1/3 streets at my poker room: there will be 1 or 2 people who are friendly and great to joke around with. then there will be 1 or 2 people who are really old. they nurse a small stack of chips and limp into every pot they play. THEN, then there will always be a couple of regulars who take themselves way too seriously. dudes, I know that you are good at poker but this isn't high stakes, this is 1/3. they suck all the fun out of live poker for recreational players like myself. after almost every hand, they will give out free lessons and criticize anything you did wrong in the hand(either amongst themselves or sometimes directly to you). I'm here to drink, have fun and get out of my apartment. I'm fine with spewing money around the table over the course of an evening. I know that I probably play most every hand wrong, I just don't need to hear about it right after the hand is over in a condescending way. end rant. Is every poker room like this at 1/3, or is it just my local room? Ugh, gonna take a break for awhile and just play on Ignition laying in bed.
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It gets better as you move up generally. V rarely do you see that stuff at 5/10+
In every country I have played in there are terrible regs who are cancerous for table dynamics, they are miserable as fuck because they are making a lower hourly than the dealer so they try and feel like a big man by shitting on rec players.
FWIW the rec players who can go blow $500 in a night at poker and not give a fuck are generally much more successful in life than guys trying to make it in poker with the hourly of a Burger King worker.
How live poker feels sometimes
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Top Comment: It's okay, over their lifetime they will gamble away a Corvette, but you will have a Nissan Altima completely paid for!
What makes a live poker player truly great?
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I am a rec player who truly enjoys playing live games. But the vast majority of you all would likely consider me a fish. I bring what I can afford to lose and just enjoy the experience. Win or lose, I am usually going away happy. But, lately, I have been thinking about what skills or attributes make someone truly great at live games.
Do they have a better mastery of the math/odds associated with the game? Do they have eidetic memories? Does it have to do with their ability to "read" players in a live game and, if so, can that be taught or are some people just inherently gifted in that part of the game? Or is it something as simple as bankrolls and number of times they play?
Sorry in advance if this is not a good question for this sub...just thought I could get some feedback.
Top Comment: In live low-stakes, the great players are usually just well-rounded. They have a strong understanding of the math involved in the game, but they also know that against certain opponents the math is useless because the other guy's plays aren't based on any fundamentals. They also have to be able to read player types to identify this and adjust their play accordingly, which means they have to be flexible and willing to be creative when needed, but disciplined at other times. As far as the "read" on people like Hollywood style tell spotters, I have just never witnessed this at low stakes games. Some players might give a lot away with their play style and mannerisms, but I have never seen that wizard who calls every bluff and knows when to fold the second nuts. This is because you rarely have enough time to develop a reliable baseline on opponents if they are strangers to you. Home games with the same groups though, some people are great at identifying these things because they know what their opponents "normal" is and can spot minute variations in their body language, eye contact, speech, etc.
Play poker for a living? Tell me your story.
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Hey guys, first off I'd like to say that I think it's really cool how much of an active community you have here. Secondly, I wrote this post because I'm looking to hear from people who rely on poker as their sole source of income and how they perceive themselves, their "job" so to speak, the pros, the cons, as well as how they ended up there. Live, online, tournament, cash, doesn't matter. I admire anyone who can do that, and I definitely think that it's something that I want to pursue with hard work and dedication. Please tell me about how you got there and how you feel about it!
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I play an epic fuck ton of tournaments, work 12-15 hours per day, 4-5 days per week. Have been for about 3 years now. I haven't shot myself in the face so I think I'm doing ok. If you can avoiding shooting yourself in the face, your mental game is doing ok.
Live poker is not dead
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Was playing live 1/3 in Upstate NY this past weekend, game was running super deep and playing like a 2/5 and felt the need to share this hand that happened. Drunk whale/station opens to $15 and gets 1 caller, hand history isn't that important but after a few streets of betting his opponent, an older man who seemed to be playing pretty snug overbet jams ~$450 into the pot on J9962 with a flush, and sends the whale/station into the tank for about 5 minutes.
The whale in the tank then tables his hand, K6 talking about how he should really fold, after a bit gets the clock called on him and with 1 second left flicks in a chip and gets shown Quad 9s lmao, was a great table.
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Was there ever a time where it was dead outside of Covid
anyone want to share their first live poker experience??? 🫡🙀
Main Post: anyone want to share their first live poker experience??? 🫡🙀
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Bought in to a private 1/2 game with 100$ with the absolute bare minimum of knowledge, AKA knowing what hand beats other hands. Ran it up to about 1600$ in two hours and dusted it all off on a turn with a gutter. Hooked ever since.
No i did not know what a gutter was.
Why do I seem to excel at live poker and completely suck at online?
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Is it just player quality? Granted I've played a very small sample size of live poker, probably only around 20 sessions of live poker overall... I don't have a casino that close to me. Yet I'm up between 7k-8k playing live vs. being down probably 10k or more over 3-4 years of online play.
Couple of things to note.. I think I've had only 2 live sessions where I left the table down and it was for $200 at the most. I've never been fully stacked playing live. I play 1/2 $100 max bet live (Colorado rules), they don't allow true no limit and almost always buyin for $300. I've left the tables at least 4 of those times cashing out over $1000 in chips.
I think one of the things has to do with patience.. For some reason, it's like I have so much better patience playing live for some reason. The main thing is that it seems there are so many fish and suckers out there.. If you just wait for the right cards, its just seems like they are waiting to pay you off.
I also feel like it's easier to have a reliable read on someone playing with them live.. There are times where all I've got is top pair with a weak kicker and I just know I have the best hand based on watching the other player.
Also, I had played online for probably 2 years before I ever played live, if that had anything at all to do with it..
Anyone else out there have similar results playing live vs. online?
Am I just on an insanely lucky live streak or is there more to do with it than that? Going to have a chance to play live for 2 full weekends in a row here in a couple weeks and very interested to see how I make out.
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If you are also playing 1/2 online, games will be much, much harder than any live 1/2 game you'll find. And are you playing 6m online or full ring?
Best place to play Live poker in Usa
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Florida or texas