When cards don't matter

So yesterday I played in a live 2-3 NL game ($100 Max/Min buy-in) at Hawaiian Gardens casino.  I got there around midnight and played for about 5 hours on 3 different tables.  Of the 25+ opponents I played against, only about 1 of them I thought was a good player.  People either were playing way too tight and passive or they were the type of guys who had a VPIP of about 75% with a prf of 5%.  Everyone's range was polarized on every street in every hand.  It just makes me feel stupid when I once thought that everyone who played on the internet were for the most part bad and loose players and live play was wayyyyyyy tougher.  My view on live vs. online is now reversed where I view online as tough and intellectual playing and live play as just bad (there are obviously exceptions for this though, and you can definitely find tough live games, but for low to medium stakes, live<<<<<<<<<

The third table that I got moved to had a few characters on it with the only above average player on it.  He wasn't above average for the type of style he played (he was a little too passive for my taste and would limp/fold too often), but he made good reads on other players and trapped well.  There was a gentlemen to my right who was from Atlanta and was very talkative.  He mentioned hands he played (Bad beats and quad/straight flush type hands) and how he played them.  He would talk about different strategy he uses and the fact that he hates playing QQ (I told him that every time he got QQ, that I would take them off his hands).  After I heard his speech about hating QQ, I figured out that he was the pessimist type and that unless he had a flashy (straight flush draw or AA) or lock hand that he was easy to push off hands.  After absorbing all of the information on the table, I decided that I wanted to start 3-betting certain opponents much more lightly and the Atlanta gentlemen was a perfect target for this.  

We were playing 7 handed at the time, and ATL made a standard "pot building raise" to $8 ("real" raises are closer to the $15 mark at the Hawaiian Gardens) from UTG+1 and I look down at Th3c, so instead of folding I decide to 3-bet to $22.  Now I know that there are 5 people left to act, but the type of table it was I didn't have to worry about people calling light behind me.  After a 3-bet the table would only call with a top 3% hand.  So I make it $22 and the rest of the table folds to the ATL gentleman and he makes a comment right before he throws in his $14, "So you got those Queens then?", at this exact point when he is releasing his chips into the pot, I have his hand range polarized to Ace Face.  So unless an ace or broadway hand flops, I know I can bet and get him to fold.  Flop comes 8h9h4c, he checks and I bet $25 into the $49 pot.  He thinks for 5 seconds and open mucks AdJs.  

Although live play is probably MUCH easier than online, because of the minimal number of hands seen an hour, I still think that playing online is more profitable.  But it is hard to really find out one's profitability in a wiffle ball (live 2-3 NL) game when you only see about 1250 hands a week playing live.  

I saw this for the first time the other day and died laughing, so I figured I would share it with all of you guys too.  The guy in the video is a senator's son and he is trying to make a documentary on online poker.  He is playing a $0.10 MTT...THAT'S WHAT TIME IT IS!!!!