How wide is the gap between online poker and live poker players ?

The poker community was beginning to get riled with the unpredictable characters rising up the ranks through online poker. Players began to be classed as ‘live’ or ‘online’ poker players, each type of player was lumped into a style based on their preferred method of gaming. Live players were steadier, less aggressive players who made plays based on ‘reads’ of other players betting patterns and physical tells whereas Online players were hyper-aggressive youngsters who fired away at every pot without regard to what their opponents might have.

Whilst these steretypes may once have been trues now, in order to be a good poker player, you have to be well rounded, and most skilled players play BOTH types of poker well.

Online players watch enough poker on TV and put in enough time playing live to understand the skill of live poker. And, because of the MASSIVE number of hands online players can see (online players average twice as many hands per hour as live tables, and often play many tables at once: therefore, a young internet pro like Tom ‘durr’ Dwan has likely played more hands in four years than Doyle Brunson has in 70 years), online pros have an excellent grasp of the math and odds of the game.

Meanwhile, live players have moved onto the internet. Why? Because they can play a lot more in a shorter period of time. Players like David Benyamine, who used to spend years grinding out the biggest cash games in the casinos, can now make MILLIONS in a single month online. And because of the popularity of online poker the big names in the live poker community have made businesses out of the growing online poker community - "Devilfish" and Doyle Brunso have their own poker rooms.

So, what’s better?

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Short History of Poker- before the online poker phenomenon.

Poker has become a world wide phenomenon over the recent years - everyone seems to play the game. Most people give Internet poker all credit for the explosion in popularity, but we must not forget that Poker, in one form or another has been traced through over more than ten centuries back to around 900AD.

A game alike to poker was first invented by the Chinese sometime before 969 A.D, and Egyptians in the 12th & 13th centuries are known to have used a form of playing cards. In 16th century Persia “Ganjifa” or “Treasure Cards” were believed to have been used for a variety of betting games. A Ganjifa deck consisted of 96 elaborate cards, made of paper thin slices of ivory or precious wood. “As Nas” was played by The Persians which utilized 25 cards, rounds of betting and hierarchical hand rankings.
“Primero dates back to 1526 and is often referred to as “poker’s mother” as it is the first confirmed version of a game directly related to modern day poker “Primero” was a 16th century Spanish game which involved three cards being dealt to each player. Bluffing, or betting high stakes whilst holding poor cards to deceive opponents, was an integral part of the game.. In the 17th and 18th centuries a French game named “Poque” and a German game named “Pochen” became very popular, believed to have been developed from Primero

When French colonials arrived in Canada they imported the game to the new world. From the beginning of the 18th century Poque was the national card game of France and when a hardy group of French-Canadian settlers founded New Orleans, its popularity spread from the state of Louisiana throughout the whole country. One of the earliest references of poker was written In 1834 by Jonathan H. In his writing he mentions rules to the "cheating game,"

During the Wild West period of United States history, a saloon with a Poker table could be found in just about every town from coast to coast. It was extremely popular during the Civil War when the soldiers of both armies played. European influence of poker ended when the joker was introduced as a wild card in 1875.
In just over two centuries, poker has never looked back. Since its humble beginning on the banks of the Mississippi, the popularity of this widely played game has grown in leaps and bounds to evolve numerous variations and sub-variations.

There have been three games that have, in turn, dominated the modern poker scene:
• 5 Card Draw rose from relative obscurity during the American Civil War to the most popular game for almost a century.
• 7 Card Stud then took over the throne shortly before WWII and maintained its position for about 40 years with the help of the new and thriving Las Vegas casino industry.
• Texas Hold’em, christened the ‘cadillac of poker’ rose to prominence in the 1970's when it was featured as the title game in the World Series of Poker. Today, Texas Hold’em is indisputably the most frequently played and most popular poker game in the world


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How to turn Live poker table to talk into strategy

One of the main differences of playing live poker tournaments rather than online is the interaction between players. As well as the normal poker tells most experienced poker players will tell you that the players often give away a lot more than they realise when playing in live poker tournaments through their table talk.

Players tend to loosen up with those around them (since they're expecting to be there for a decent amount of time). While it's impossible to ever be 100% sure of what a person means when they engage in table talk, there are a few general principles and generic situations that can help you properly interpret the words of your opponents:

• Players who announce their intention to defend, they're tipping you off to how important the chips are to them. Raise it up if you have the chance.


• Players who talk about their specific cards or hands, they're usually telling a version of the truth. (i.e. if someone calls for a certain suit on the turn, it's likely that they're on some kind of draw but probably not the flush draw. If someone calls for certain cards to not hit on the river, they usually have a made hand already, but probably not a very strong hand.)


• Players who guess your hand, they're giving you a lot of information about how they think about poker in general and more specifically about how they view you as a player.


• Players who tell you the 'truth' about a hand more than a few hands after it happened, they're usually actually telling you the truth. The further away you get from the hand, the more likely it is they're actually telling the truth. This is extra-super-true if they were on tilt when the play in question happened.

People are willing to comment on how hands played out if you're a good neighbor. By starting a conversation about a particular hand, you can often get your neighbor to give up information about how he or she did play or would have played in a similar spot- especially if they're a little chatty or proud of a play they made. When people Some people always say 'nice hand' if you take down a pot without a showdown. Some people always say 'nice bet' in that situation. Some people choose between the two. Pay attention to those people, because which one they say to you in a given spot speaks volumes about how they are viewing you, and it's information you'll probably be able to use in the immediate future, especially in a tournament.

These are just a few quick examples of how to convert your opponent's words into useful information at the poker table. The next time you play a live tournament, take off your ipod every few hands and strike up a small conversation with your neighbor. You might be surprised at what they're willing to teach you if you're just willing to listen.

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Are Cryptologic in Talks with PartyGaming

A report in the FT today realeaved the news that there may be an alliance with PartyGaming in the coming months. The two companies PartyGaming, owner of PartyPoker and Cryptologic are talking about pooling their poker businesses to save costs, as both companies fight to maintain their positions in the online gambling industry.

CryptoLogic's self-proclaimed goal is to reduce annual operating expenses by $12m-$15m, and would build its new strategy around casino licensing, its most profitable business, offering its leading games to other gaming operators and developing branded content. Cryptologic already announced a five-year licensing agreement of casino games to PartyGaming yesterday, as well as an earlier announcement to provide casino games to 888.com (Pacific Poker owner).

Jim Ryan, PartyGaming chief executive, said CryptoLogic content would enhance its market-leading position. Brian Hadfield, his counterpart at CryptoLogic, said PartyGaming was one of its biggest customer deals "and an endorsement of the branded games element of our new strategy".

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