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Message: [QUOTE="PoKeRFoRNiA, post: 2234833, member: 51710"] Americans can't play poker online unless you play on bovada, carbon, blackchip. it's nearly impossible to put any volume into these sites. And they don't offer rakeback or bonuses for American players. Only pokerstars and full tilt offer that option since there are/were lot of people in those sites. I've been playing live and rake is ridiculously high, especially in California non-Indian casinos. $1 rake every pre-flop + $5 anytime it hits the flop. While live players at $1/$2 are horrible, it's very hard to make a living playing $1/$2. The best session I had this year, I made roughly $800 net profit, playing 5 hours. But that's when I'm having a really good session. Is that really worth abandoning my job? I'm a math teacher getting paid 48k while tutoring professionally in mathematics for $50/hr. There's no risk involved with my job. I work between 8-14 hours a day. There's no way I'm giving up my profession and my job to play poker at $1/$2. Unlike online where you can buy into the tables upto 100bb and even have auto-rebuy on and top-off, in live games, especially in California casinos, you can only buy-in for $40(20bb) at$1/$2, Hollywood Park being $40-$100(20-50bb) while not being able to auto-top off and only buy-in when you're half-way down. Larry Flynt's Hustlers Casino offers $1/$3 blinds but buy-ins are $60-200(20-66bb). Due to being short-stacked compared to online, variance will be lot higher compared to online since showdown frequency will be lot higher.. I beg to differ with the online vs live. I've seen horrible online players do well in live games. But of course, I rarely see live players do well online. Online is way harder indeed. [/QUOTE]

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