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