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Message: [QUOTE="titans4ever, post: 569224, member: 2843"] I make money on-line. What we are getting at is live and on-line are two very different versions of the same game. It is just like being a good tourney player but ok at ring games. Another good example are actors and actresses. Some can do stage/live and others are only good on screen. Watch Saturday Night Live and watch how some can pull the live sceens off and others just can't do it. Does it mean you are a bad actor if you are only good at one? No, just different. Poker is the same way. There are so many more variable to keep track of in a live game. You are required to remember how each player is playing and their aggression factors. You have to steady your emotions and play calm and collected. You have to try and get physical reads on players while not giving any away yourself. Soft playing is the largest version of cheating live (not playing against your friends or maybe dumping chips to them once in awhile). On-line the only true skill is betting and folding. All the little stuff is taken care of for you. Poker Tracker can give you more stats than you can imagine about how a player is doing and playing (no skill in remembering). Blinds and chip stacks are easily seen (no skill required). You can jump up and down all you want when you get a good hand, nobody will see (no skill required). You can even get programs that will tell you how you should play (no skill required). Collusion is always available. You and a friend can sit at any SnG and IM you hands. Hard to prove but I am sure it happens. Do you see a differnce? I am not belittling the on-line player because I am one of them but there is a difference. There are devices and programs (legal) that can make a bad player decent, an average player good, a good player excellent etc. without them truely being at that level. Live there is no such aids to help the fish swimming with the sharks. P.S. I don't blame anyone who uses these programs. If they are legal to use, why not use them to their fullest advantage. I am just pointing out it takes out a certain skill set that is required to play a live game. [/QUOTE]

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