What has happened to classy poker?

[allinking17]

Online poker has happeend to good old fashioned poker. Online poker has brought speed and greed to the game. The game happens so fast online and gives players an instant high of gambling sensation. When playing online with not material money in front of them players tend to play more hands and play worse. When you play in person, it is a lot harder to play 10 2 when you have to show everyone at the end of the hand and they can look you in the eye knowing that you made a horrible play. Online though you can show your hand while you hide right behind the computer screen. So you can basically blame chris moneymaker asi personally believe he was the reason that the online poekr boom happened. Heck i will even admit it, i play tons of hands online that i would never play in person in a live event.

So yea, thats what happened to good old fashioned poker. Hopefully you understand the point i am attempting to make (sometimes im not too clear after a drink or so haha)

[thejuanupsman]

I've been playing poker for 38 years and I don't remember a time when people automatically folded bad hands to raises or never played bad hands. There have always been people who made bad plays and didn't know when to fold. And inevitably these people sometimes lucked out. Not as often in the games we played then as they do in Omaha and Hold 'em, but still it happened plenty. And we accepted it as part of the game. In my mind that is what has really changed. Except for a few ill mannered drunks, people didn't whine and complain when they took a beat, rarely did someone tell someone else how they should have played. If someone was rude enough to call someone else names they were usually asked to leave, often in a less than gentle matter. Certainly they weren't invited back. For me that is the change that has resulted from the hold em and online explosion. And one I am not very fond of.