Riccoboni said:
Nowadays technology has removed the romanticism that poker has. Playing online is not the same as playing live. There are two different poker categories, although with the same rules.
I prefer to play live, but I understand that playing online allows me to see flops.
I think similarly, it is an other mainstream connected, let's divide something what obviously useless, pointless, except you want to divide and conquer. It is not the case in poker.
I also think live and online the 2 categories what you can make, if it is very necessary. Especially, all the posts here focus for 2 things:
1., technology, tools, 'education' stuff - everything was given before black friday, a decade ago, when the poker was on the top, both live and online. (Otherwise all these are available nowadays, too, to anyone, and it is not atom physics, that cannot adopt, especially by individuals whose in the main flow since decades, obviously, if something significantly changes to better direction, and the given individual do not adopt it, he will disappear... common sense, as it is about money, especially on high stakes, what players they mentioned above... like business world, if you can't survive, beat the rest, you will disappear, soon...)
2., The few decade long sponsored characters, whose stayed in the focus, mostly because they are connected to any room, they are face of a site. So average poker player do not know anyone else. Meantime, the live tourneys 10-15 years ago was full with characteristhic players, you had plenty options to watch it, as even it was popular in television, plenty sports channels' night program was all the time poker, example, and not only night.
Next to the biggest live events, plenty smaller - still huge - were held all around the world. Also online, you had more rooms, players, options to choose where and what you play
I do not think so it is worth to try comparing or dividing, what you can't, as it makes no sense, at least, not for me.
