After spending hundreds of hours in both online casinos and live casinos, there are various differences between the two despite playing the exact same game. Below are a few of the nuances I’ve noticed.

Online players are much stronger stake for stake

Normally the minimal live game you’ll find in a casino is $1/$2 ($200NL). This really is where all of the beginners start. Online, the smallest games may be as small as $0.01/$0.02 ($2NL) where there is just not much money to be made. That suggests beginners in live casinos are playing for way bigger stakes than online. Online Players playing $200NL are generally very strong.

Live low-stakes players generally don’t have a clue

Cannot tell you how often times I’ve been talking to live players talk about how online players don’t know what they are doing. They will say aspects such as “you can not read his face” or “online players do not know-how to bluff and keep a straight face” – stupidness, really. Many live players don’t understand the concept of frequencies and betting patterns, which in fact are much more informative than “his lip twitched when he reached for his chips” or what ever

Raising 3x the bb preflop doesn’t do anything

Many live players do not consider big blinds, they only consider chips. What I mean by that is if one example is at a $1/$2 game, somebody raises $6, many players will think “oh that’s just 1 red chip” rather than thinking of 3 big blinds. For anybody who is going to come in for a raise in a live game, you’ll probably want to raise between 6-8bb, at least within the $200NL live game.

Very little 3betting in live games

Most players in a live setting are way more content to just call a raise as oppose to 3bet, even with big hands like AQ and AK – and it’s certainly not for balance. Ordinarily, when you are 3bet in a live game, the player is going to have QQ+ (weak players)

Live players think pocket pairs are the nuts.

In a live game, players have a really hard time folding pocket pairs preflop for some reason. I have 3bet with hands like AQ+ and can’t tell you how often times I have been called by 22-77. Numerous dead money within this link spot.