Do You Play The Same Live vs Online?

[spowers454]

I use to think I played the same no mater where I was, live, online and site to site. Lately I've been playing more live poker and started noticing the differences in my play. Not that I need to play different from one to another but I play a lot more "off" hands live than online. Mostly because live I can get a read on someone every hand where as online you need them to make a mistake to find a tell. Mistakes being taking to long to make a play or making a bet that announces what they hand. While playing live I find myself in some strange pots with some off the wall cards, which kinda works out cause when they are trying to read me I am normally sitting there with the same look on my face... The why the h*** am I playing this hand look. lol. I have started to take some of the playing style I use live to online and it has been working pretty good but still with nowhere near the success that it gets live. Live I will jump at the chance to play some off beat cards that nobody would put me on and now at times I find myself doing it more and more online. The draw back is without being able to stare someone down and being able to ask myself does this person look like they have me beat then it tends to get me in trouble. I have also noticed that I change my play from site to site when online. Like bodog is a big flush site so I find myself ignoring odds more to chase flushes there and AP and stars both seems to flop a lot of sets with pocket pairs so I will be more willing to pay a higher price to see a flop on those sites with pocket pairs. Anouther difference is when I started playing online I use to set a lot of traps, now it is rare at best. Seem to get drawn out on a lot more slow playing online than live, but live I still do it as much as I can. So does anyone else notice if they change thier game based on if it is live or online and change from site to site????

[Poker Orifice]

My play in live tournaments is different from online mainly because of the tournament structure - - most smaller buyin live tourneys have fairly fast structure so playing more marginal hands but isolating with them while in position can be quite profitable. I also find players in live tourneys play a bit more predictably than online (ie. it seems easier for players to two-barrel bluff online... whereas live they'll often fire out a c-bet but then give it up on the turn if their c-bet's been called).

[jeffsbabe]

I don't get to play live cards as much a I'd like. I play pretty tight either way, but in live poker I have more acceptable starting hands. Mostly it depends on the other players and how they are playing. It's harder for me not to chase to the river in live cards. I have to constantly talk to myself about that.

[GOIVIT]

I have not been playing live much lately due to monetary constraints, but when I do it is more cash games and not tournaments. In cash games there is more money at stake than a tourny so I play a little differently. Probably looser with worse starting hands and more chasing than online. Live it is easier to read the way a player plays than online (imo), plus live I can take down a nice pot to catch up if I'm down some. Online I play mostly MTT's and sitngos which are a lot different than cash games. Online I find it hard to read most players that I don't play with often so I play much better opening hands and rarely chase.

[LombardiStix]

I have to say that I absolutely play different live than online. First of all, I get bored on the computer easily. I guess the live game is so much more "rich" to me. There's more strategy imo. Ok maybe not "more" but I have the pleasure of staring down my opponent which is infinitely more fun than sending them a "smilie". And getting your opponents talking, its all just much more enjoyable. I will also say that my record live is much better than online. I think its mostly due to the boredom issue online, but who knows.

[Poker Orifice]

Interesting Lombar.... online for me isn't boring unless I'm in just one tournament at a time and in a micro buyin level. When I've got 7 tables up & running I go into manic overdrive mode, time flying by, brain constantly on the go.... never gets boring at all for me. I get bored live actually.... so many terrible players and moves so slowly. Sometimes difficult to pick up tells when they think they're J7s is a big hand calling down a 3bet out of position preflop, lol.

[LombardiStix]

Interesting Lombar.... online for me isn't boring unless I'm in just one tournament at a time and in a micro buyin level. When I've got 7 tables up & running I go into manic overdrive mode, time flying by, brain constantly on the go.... never gets boring at all for me. I get bored live actually.... so many terrible players and moves so slowly. Sometimes difficult to pick up tells when they think they're J7s is a big hand calling down a 3bet out of position preflop, lol.

I can see how you feel the opposite. I totally get it. I think my brain is better in live play (especially tournament) because of the subtleties. I love forming reads on people using their body language and making decisions based upon this. It simply isn't there in online poker. You have a finite amount of information to work with when playing with any individual. Live play encompasses a number of sensory stimuli that online play cannot reproduce.

Stix

[offshoregamstr]

If I play live (which hardly don't get a chance) I play more conservative while the other hand when I play online I am more flexible with my $. Guess it is the atmosphere of playing at home that keep you relaxed.