online games are MUCH tougher than live games. so online requires more skill. its widely accepted that online play is tougher than live play.
"online requires more skill"
does not follow from:
"online games are MUCH tougher than live games."
Imagine a coin-flipping game. This would have no skill at all, and thus, you might say, would be "perfectly" tough, as in, unbeatable. Then compare that to chess, which is so skillful that it's very easy for the better player to win, so much so that people won't really even play it for money.
The less skill in a game, the
tougher it is to profit. The tougher it is to profit (line-up issues aside), the less skill is involved. DUCY?
There is so much less skill in online play that it becomes easy to get halfway decent at it. It's easier to play tight because you're playing so many hands. It's easier to play aggressively because the stacks are typically smaller than in live play. It's also easier to play TAG, or even LAG, because everyone else pretty much is. It's the culture of online. You don't see everyone playing a lot of hands or just limping in, so you don't do it yourself. Also, if no one else is playing loose or passive, anyone who does will much more quickly get punished.
Online players sit in live games and, amazingly quickly, start playing about like the live regulars (and if they don't, they get killed). Even live games full of online players (you find them as side action at the WSOP and such) start playing the same as live games do generally. (search this at 2+2 and you'll get top online players acknowledging the phenomenon).
Further, the same tactics that work online might not work live, because the differences between 6-max and FR are huge, and the differences between heads-up post-flop and multi-way post flop are huge, and live games involve many more multi-way hands and are generally FR.
And then this statement of yours:
"its widely accepted that online play is tougher than live play"
is meaningless without qualifiers.
You think an online .01/.02 game is tougher than the B's big game?
Without accounting for levels, your statement is meaningless. With accounting for levels, it becomes apples and oranges.
"its widely accepted that online play is tougher than live play"
Widely accepted by ..... online players. Among live players, the opposite is considered true. You understand?
If you surround yourself with people who think like you (such as the crowd of online kids at 2+2), your thoughts will be confirmed. If you surround yourself with diverse opinions, your thoughts will be challenged.
Don't ever think that because people who see things from your own perspective agree with you that your own perspective is therefore the "right" one.
Those few of us who have played a lot of both (a small set of players), and understand the games (a still smaller set of players) and don't have any prejudices about the two forms (a really small subset of the subset) pretty much all agree that A) online games are tougher relative to the same stakes live, and B) there's much more skill involved in live games, and C) whether you should play live or online depends on weighing quite a few factors, but essentially comes down to long-run win (not win
rate, because comfort is a factor, because some people like interacting with others and getting out of the house, and some hate it and like sitting in front of the monitor).
IOW, throw bigotry out the window and find, through experimentation, which form or mix of forms is best for you.
The two forms are different, and it's foolish to make comparisions without qualifying them.
And if you're going to play both, do so without prejudice. Understand the the games are different, and the tactics must be.
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