If you're good at reading people and hard to read and patient, you'll do better live than online in bb/100. If those aren't your strong points, you can also easily do worse.
A lot also depends on the specific texture of the live game. In my experience, it's pretty much always somewhat looser, but that still leaves a LOT of room for table differences--clever LAGs, bad bluffers, some loose-weak, some loose-tough. So, it also depends on how your particular style, and ability to adjust, fits into the particular live game you're playing.
My experience has also been that the highest limit in a given casino will generally (with some short-term variation) be filled largely with skilled players. When you go down from that, I think the number of fish is higher than online.
Example: There's a 1/2 and a 2/5 here locally. The 1/2 players are MUCH worse than the online 1/2 players, probably at least 2/3 of them are in fact complete idiots by my standards. But the 2/5 players (although you occasionally also get some live ones) are every bit as good as 2/4 or 3/6 online players. They play a little differently, but their skill-set is adjusted more to the skills that do well in live play.
Since live play is slow and only one table, it's also very important to get good reads and capitalize on those. It's much more "playing the player" than in online games where you're playing 4 tables and relying more on generic strategies that do well vs. most opponents.Statistics: Posted by Aisthesis — Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:45 pm
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