Gap between Online poker(Pokerstars to be specific) and Live poker

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Ro008

Joined: 21.02.2015

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19.12.2015, 17:12 0

Hi, there.

I've played 25NL SH(Hydra) for 46k hands and sitting about 2.8bb(EV)/100 now.
Now I'm thinking about going to Macau or Vegas for holidays to make some money when I get everything ready.
So here's the question.
Are there huge gap between online poker and Macau/Vegas or any other casinos ? cuz I heard players in macau are quite tough and aggresive.
Of course, I'm not aiming for high stakes, prolly about 1/2, 2/5 or 5/10 (in US currency) at maximum.
Do you think I'll be able to beat these stakes and make some good money?

P.S. I live in South Africa at the moment so if you have any suggestions for good casinos to play poker in maybe Johannesburg or something please let me know.

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FFRRAANNKKIIEE

Joined: 30.12.2010

Posts: 3,106

20.12.2015, 00:34 0

Don't know anything about Macau, but have played many live hands with Chinese poker players, and they tend to be very aggressive so I could buy that story about crazy LAGs in Macau.

In general, beating zoom25 should mean that you could play live 1/2 games.. 5/10 doesn't sound comparable to NL25z I think, but you should wait someone with real experiences in these casinos to give you more accurate reply.

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metza

Joined: 28.01.2012

Posts: 2,216

20.12.2015, 01:18 0

Originally posted by FFRRAANNKKIIEE
In general, beating zoom25 should mean that you could play live 1/2 games.. 5/10 doesn't sound comparable to NL25z I think, but you should wait someone with real experiences in these casinos to give you more accurate reply.

Unless macau is tough as hell should be fine, I found live 2/4 in new zealand to be about the same as 5nl zoom, maybe softer. definitely nowhere near as tough as 25 zoom...

I also watched a 5/5 PLO game with 1400 in the middle preflop and the guys had like JK97 with three spades and was wondering wtf was going on.

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