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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 968514, member: 23910"] Needs proof, IMO As for your win rates being lower online than live, again, I suspect the fact that there are more dead-money pure gamblers at the live tables has a lot to do with it. Remember that I play and love both forms of the game. I also deal live, so I've seen countless examples of it: someone's only in the game because their partner is and they may as well kill the time by playing. Someone's friends just happened to be doing this tonight, so what the hell. Someone's drunk... so what the hell. Someone's here because they're running bad at craps and felt like a change. Those players exist, and there's plenty of them. You simply do [B][I]not [/I][/B]see those kind of players at online tables, because they've gotta go to way too much effort to get there - they've gotta download a site, work out how to deposit on it... way too much hassle, they're never gonna do it. There's another aspect to online win rates too: exactly how much online poker have you played? It can take some time to get used to the reduced action times and overall pace of the game. As a live player, I know it took me months and months to get my head around playing at internet speed. If you haven't spent a lot of time playing online to get past that barrier, it's natural to expect that your results will suffer. While I'm on a roll, are you playing the same stakes online as you do live? We can argue over whether online players or live players are better overall, but one thing I'd argue as almost irrefutable is that online players at the same stakes are significantly better than their live counterparts. $200NL live, for example, plays like $10NL online. I've observed it, as have countless others. Guys who play $10K buy-in tournaments live play $500 buy-in tournaments online. One last thing - 9% ROI, while it may be less than your live figure, is still pretty good. Nice work. Have you converted it into $/hr though? One of the big upsides of the online game is the endless action - chances are you can play four or five SnGs in the time it'd take you to play one live SnG then wait for the next one to start. Five at 9%, or one at 35%? Assuming the same stakes, I know which one I'd take. [/QUOTE]

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