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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1383258, member: 23910"]
Interesting points and they're certainly valid. I'd say the most important difference between online and live casino play is this though:
 
[B]Online you're playing against poker players. At a live casino, you're often playing against [U]gamblers[/U].[/B]
 
People go to casinos to gamble and poker is just another casino game to them. They're used to taking the worst of it against the house (if they're even aware of the fact - many aren't) and they have all sorts of funny ideas about things. Some of them think roulette is beatable using some clever system or other, for example. In a live casino there's nothing stopping these people just walking up to a poker table because they feel like a change from whatever else they've been playing, and not much changes in their attitude when they do. So they're willing to bet and bet big on all sorts of stuff.  Hell, many of them will have mentally written off the money they've brought to the table before they even sit down.
 
Online, however, before someone can play they need to sign up to a site and somehow get their money onto it. This means there are a lot less casual players and straight gamblers because everybody's made the conscious decision that they [I]want[/I] to play some online poker.
 
End result: there's a lot more LAGs, maniacs and droolers in live casino games. That's why the games play so bad, but it's also why they're so high variance. Open-raising to $20 is practially unheard of in online $200NL. In a casino $200NL game it can be standard.
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