Without online poker, many of the new top players wouldn’t be able to compete with the old-school professionals. With online poker, it is possible to get years of playing experience in a few weeks.

John Tabatabai – 03/2008 – in Card Player Europe

Of course experience helps and playing tons and tons of hands online helps, But the more you play live, the more you pick up on as well. That’s why so many of these big online guys have yet to have a big score live. A lot of it has to do with variance, but a lot of them also haven’t grasped how live poker is played. [...]
When you’ve played that much online you may be more experienced as far as the technical side goes, but poker is more than just that. It’s got a human element to it.

Hoyt Corkins – 02/2010 – in PokerListings

 

Online play always seemed to be a little bit out of my comfort zone. Online seems to be more about the statistics and math side of poker (which is a big part of the game but something I usually consider without really having to think about it). And with online gamers it is “positive ev” this and “nit” that and “c bet” this and “lmfao”… it’s like another whole world out there, even for someone like myself who has played poker for many years.

Nichoel Peppe – 02/2010 – in PokerStars Blog

 

I think Rush Poker is an evolution of the game of poker that is here to stay. It’s a brilliant move by Full Tilt Poker and I applaud them for being innovative. I hadn’t played a hand of No Limit Hold’em cash in over six months because I was just too bored of the game. I can’t get enough of rush. If the poker sites can do anything to get people enthusiastic about playing, then they are doing something right. That’s what gets fish to the games.

Andrew “muddywater” Wiggins – 01/2010 – in Poker News Daily