With the advent of poker on the Internet, there is the group of poker players divided into two camps: the online camp and the 'live' camp. The live actors are often older men, the old guard. Take a random twenty year old player who plays a lot, and the chances are that he is focused on the online poker game. Daniel Negreanu belongs to the established order: the live players.

In a recent interview with the normally congenial Canadian, the openingsquestion was how the online players behave on a live table, and if they for example carry some inexperience with them. Negreanu is striking hard in his judgement. "They do not have poker etiquette," Negreanu opens his reply.

Etiquette is generally perceived as relatively important in live poker. In particular, inexperienced players, such as tourists, for example, often have little knowledge of these unwritten rules in the pokerworld. The reason is simple, said Negreanu: "They do not understand it because they did not grow up playing live poker. There are other things they do, too. When you grow up playing live poker, you learn a few things. First of all, you do not stall. That's cheating. You get a lot of kids on the internet that just do that anyway, and are totally open about it. "

'The sucker'
In addition, Negreanu believes that online players are not good in handling the 'sucker on the table'. He believes that online players are not nice enough 'to the worst player at the table. "I used to come to Las Vegas in my early twenties, we'd come and there would be about six or seven professionals. Then the tourist came into the game and he got treated really well." Hey, how you doin '! " People would ask him. "How've you been. When you coming back to town? You going to the fight? "You'd just treat the guy really nicely because you understand that he's your bread and butter," Negreanu continues its appeal against online players.

His point of view is that everyone in online poker can behave himself as he wants, without having that influence on whether someone you in the future whether or not to adopt again. "Well, with online poker you do not have to be nice to anybody. You can be a "nit" if you will, and do not have to worry about the social aspect of being a host. Playing in a live cash game, if you want the guy to come back you better not piss him off. "