ONLINE vs. LIVE - WHAT DO "U" SEE??

I need help -

I need all the smart ones out there to tell me how WHAT I'm seeing online (my take) is WRONG...

I have a good 15+ years of live play under my belt - at everything from 2/4 to 10/20 limit and .05/.10 to 1/2 NL.. (As well as some 1/3 pot limit) The POT limit was a nasty game and we played it many nights a week for the last few years... I have countless hours in games from CA, Vegas to Atlantic City..

I have played online since oh - about 2002/03 or abouts..


My take on things is this.. VERY SIMPLE. I have won 70% + of the tables I sat at in live games - unless I was in a dark hole (bad cards) - for a few weeks.. but overall.. I've made it happen in cash games... I was able to win BIG live... and did it year after year - day after day and hour after hour... I paid for buildings to be built and MAJOR products to be purchased... WHY?

Simple - In live games - LOSING PLAYERS ARE ALLOWED TO LOSE - I GUESS?

Online - I never seem to have the big scores.. (nor do my friends) but rather - I get a little... then get smashed - get a little - then get smashed... It appears I'm on a rush but I get myself into a hand THAT I "must" bet hard and that "that is a great hand" but - YOU GUESSED IT - seems to run SMACK into the MAGIC silver bullet player that hits the case card on river with insane %'s against him or her.. (Now - funny thing is this...If I played like this online - I'd not hit the card... THIS ALL OF US ROUNDERS KNOW - Because - even the trained players will try it.. from time to time.. online and come up short.. and come up short) Yet - we get beat 4/5 times with other players taking same LAME & HIGH risks..

For some reason - When I'm against the same sort of situation - I get smashed on river - OR the "4" to the flush appears.. This happens with BETTING the hand accordingly too - NOT CHECKING or TRAPPING... Hand after hand - the LEAD is a great one and the RIVER brings CHAOS to what ever little positive chip lead I had built up... (online that is)

Now - I'll say it again - It does happen live too (I must say this to be honest) - but no where near the same amount of times.. and thus - I get to STILL walk out a winner... ONLINE - I either Bust in a hand where MY "super lead" is attacked by one or more donkeys - and the 1 or 2 outer hits! Sending me packing - I don't tilt either - because the computer has RE-TRAINED me to EXPECT the LOSS so well - that I might TILT if MY HAND HOLDS UP!

Now - Players with little or no live experience CHOCK this up to MORE HANDS PER HOUR = EQUALS MORE BAD BEATS?

It's a simple observation and GUESS -and I'm not sure a player that ONLY played ONLINE can understand what a LIVE player is talking about - OR have a REAL clue about such hands LIVE VS. ONLINE - basically they are making statements without SEAT TIME live and NO REFERENCE what-so-ever.. SOoooo.. To this IDEA/STATEMENT that the online players state time and time again (MORE HANDS = MORE BAD BEATS)- I have a SIMPLE QUESTION?

I'm not being smart here - I'm serious.... Like a heart attack.

Why is it just that simple to make a statement like this??? - WHY does MORE hands per hour HAVE TO EQUAL more bad beats - Why can't it mean MORE losers losing more hands? - More chips going the way to the players having the best of it GOING IN... More chips going to the players that ACTUALLY PLAY POKER?

IN "LIVE ACTION" POKER I SEE THIS... - Good players with extra racks of chips - CHIPS THEY WIN FROM POOR PLAYERS taking shots at bad %'s (betting on a come)

ONLINE I SEE THIS - Good players making the SAME great moves.. making a few pennies to the positive and then losing HUGE - in one silly hand after another... NIGHT AFTER NIGHT (for month and years now)
(A crew of my live play QUALITY players see and report the same thing)

Well - there u have it - I'm a very patient guy and I'll give everyone a LONG time (the rest of my life) to answer me this riddle...


It appears to me that online is nothing more than FOR FUN at a FEE! (A big FEE - as in ALL UR MONEY) It appears to me that ALL monies eventually end up DOWN THE FUNNEL DRAIN... IF not.. Why is it - NO ONE that I KNOW reporting BIG wins? WHY Am I watching players (friends of mine) play online and seeing the same silly outcomes that I see happen to me? I watch MANY friends too - and they are REALLY TOP SHELF PLAYERS if you ask me..


Go ahead - Explain it all to me! Please.

NOTE - this is the FIRST DRAFT of this blog and will be changed most likely in the next few hours and I think it thru more - FOr the most part - it's finished.