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anyone switch from live poker to online and actually adapt successfully

never really thought i’d be asking this but after a few swings lately and seeing my local cardroom just get weirder, i’m seriously considering going online for most of my sessions. played live for years, mostly 1/2 and 2/5, never really struggled with the face-to-face reads, just the grind hours. a buddy told me online is nothing like live though, since everyone is firing off hands way quicker and you get way less time to vibe people out. feels like a totally different game just from watching some streams, way more aggressive and nobody talks obviously.

anyone here actually made the switch and found a way to adjust without just going nuts on tilt every other day? what was the biggest thing you had to change about your playstyle or your expectations?

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the biggest shift for me was how online’s reward and punishment loop hits your nerves way quicker, so i had to consciously schedule real breaks or i’d start tilting just from the monotony, not just from hands played. did anyone else find tracking winrates across multiple tables killed some of the “feel” you got from deep live sessions?

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had to drop the idea of “table flow” from live. online just feels like firing into a slot machine on max speed sometimes. what kept me from tilting was treating each hand like a separate bet, more like roulette chips instead of a story carrying over. tracking exact session length helped too, otherwise it’s easy to slip into marathon mode and forget real time is passing. less vibes, more discipline. the first month was a disaster, not gonna lie.

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