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After spending hundreds of hours in both online casinos and live casinos, there are numerous differences between the 2 despite playing the exact same game. Here are a few of the nuances I’ve noticed.
Online players are much stronger stake for stake
Normally the minimal live game you can find in a casino is $1/$2 ($200NL). This is where all the beginners start. Online, the smallest games may be as small as $0.01/$0.02 ($2NL) where there is just not much cash to be made. That suggests beginners in live casinos are playing for way bigger stakes than online. Online Players playing $200NL are typically very strong.
Live low-stakes players generally don’t have a clue
Cannot tell you how many times I’ve been talking to live players speak about how online players don’t determine what they’re doing. They’ll say things like “you cannot read his face” or “online players do not know how to bluff and keep a straight face” – stupidness, really. Many live players don’t understand the concept of frequencies and betting patterns, Uts said which in fact are much more informative than “his lip twitched when he reached for his chips” or what ever
Raising 3x the bb preflop doesn’t do anything
Many live players don’t consider big blinds, they only consider chips. What I mean by that is if by way of example, at a $1/$2 game, somebody raises $6, many players will think “oh that’s just 1 red chip” rather than thinking about 3 big blinds. In case you are going to come in for a raise in a live game, you certainly will probably want to raise between 6-8bb, at least in the $200NL live game.
Very little 3betting in live games
Most players in a live setting are way more content to just call a raise as oppose to 3bet, even with big hands like AQ and AK – and it’s certainly not for balance. Routinely, when you are 3bet in a live game, the player is going to have QQ+ (weak players)
Live players think pocket pairs will be the nuts.
In a live game, players have a very hard time folding pocket pairs preflop for some reason. I’ve 3bet with hands like AQ+ and cannot tell you how often times I’ve been called by 22-77. Many dead money in this particular spot.
