How much does online poker create players that shame professional poker?

Question

I've seen a few clips of pro poker players that are just disgusted with online playes winning or buying into a pro tournament and their play is just awful and sometimes by sheer luck, the online players wins money. Should some respect be shown to actual pros....that if you're stepping into their world, learn the rules, the odds...don't just bet goofy and hope for a hand...actually know what you hold and know how to bet....

Answer 1

Pros love online players. At the end of the day the online explosion has brought a massive influx of dreadful players into the game which has given many of the huge pay days. They may be exasperated by some of the hyper maniac players, but in the long term good pros will always come out on top.

Answer 2

Any so called "pro" who objects to how someone else players deserves to be called an amatuer. How can someone call their self a pro if they get upset becase "bad" players are the game? If someone is a real pro who has a deep understanding of the game, he doesn't get upset with someone if they actually do play bad. If you understand poker, you must understand that you need bad players to make much money. I don't want any player to know the odds, I love it when they bet goofy and hope for a hand, and I certainly don't want them to ever know what I hold and when to bet.

The money flows from the worst player to the best player! You always want players at the table who plays worse than you, otherwise you aren't gonna end up witht he money over any considerable length of time.

Bad players don't bring shame to the game, they bring hard cold cash. If a guy or girl has the money to sit down and play, they deserve as much respect as anyone else, no matter how good or bad they are. Maybe some players wanna chase off the money, but I say if you got the money then lay it down and we'll play some poker.

Answer 3

If anything, the last two years have been years of dominance by online gamers. All of the champions of the last ten years of the World Series of Poker play some amount of online poker, and most high limit professionals supplement their tournament and cash games by playing several thousand hands of online poker. Online poker has the added benefit to these players of allowing them to play as many as twelve tables simultaneously! Online poker is just an excellent training device, and an excellent way to make money assuming you can tolerate the wide amount of variance (up and downswings).

The style that you mention which is an exceptionally hyper-aggressive style is very successful in online arenas, particularly with the proliferation of short-handed or six player maximum games, where if you wait for premium hands to play, you will get bullied by other players, lose lots of money to the blinds, and not get much action when you do pickup a hand due to a predictably tight tendency to only play premium hands.

Sure, there is a large element of luck to poker, and always will be: that is the allure of the game. However, playing in a hyper-aggressive manner has nothing to do with disrespecting other players, and has everything to do with playing in a manner you think will win you the most amount of chips. Of course, playing hyper-aggressively can be adapted to and beaten by imaginative players, so often you will hear about both online pros as well as live tournament players "switching gears" which means they will move from playing aggressively to only playing premium hands in order to trap players hoping to capitalize off of their aggressive play.

Answer 4

Yes, it is true that the UIGEA is scheduled to start being enforced starting on June 1, 2010. It is unclear how this will affect the online gaming industry at this time. The Poker Player's Alliance is working "feverishly" to get a carve out of the UIGEA to allow poker as a game of skill that is exempt from the UIGEA restrictions. It is unlikely that the carve out will be in time for the June 1 deadline. I am sure that the poker sites that currently allow US transactions will continue to allow them. They always find a way. If you are worried, I would transfer as much money as you need to the online sites BEFORE June 1. I don't think getting money OFF the sites will be a problem. You should be able to request a check with little to no problems. It will be getting money ONTO the sites that will be difficult.

Answer 5

I play on line all the time and i also play live in casinos and i also deal poker in Vegas and i can tell you that people on line play so much looser than people who play live. It kills me when i make a big raise and some joker calls me with j-5 off suit and hits two pair on the flop. I don't blame any pro that complains about bad loose players. I actually want others to play as bad as they want because in the long run I'll get there chips.

Answer 6

Online is just another form of poker