Quote Originally Posted by amir is cool
Quote Originally Posted by ArcadianRock
Wait, Law if you're playing 20/40 live, why are you playing micro limits online?
there are some people at live games who don't know that a flush beats a straight.

you'll never see that above 5NL online.
It's not quite that bad, but the fundamental principle of live poker is that lots of live players cannot bring themselves to play a tight aggressive game because they find it boring. Whereas online, you can mitigate that by multitabling or multitasking (not that I recommend the latter if you are trying to seriously make money)-- plus since you play more hands per hour online, you will see playable hands more often anyway.

So, at any given casino, you can usually find poker games with people playing suspect hands and putting almost dead money into the pot. This allows a good player to both play fundamental poker and chase draws with positive expected value speculative hands (such as suited connectors). It also means that you can at least sometimes force players out of the pot in no limit games with pure aggression, because villains missed the flop. (In limit games, often lots of players call you down, which means that when you hit your big hand you are generally going to be paid off well.)

There are also other aspects of live poker that make it profitable, such as (1) drunk players, (2) talkative players who aren't paying enough attention to the hands, and (3) players who don't process information about other players, especially in hands that they do not play.

It's a wonderful world that a good player can exploit.