Playing people, online, is much harder then in a gold old B&M game. Even tho I like playing online, at times it's very impersonal. It gets hard trying to figure out if a person is taking sometime thinking about their play or their dialup connection is droping out heh.
At the same time being able to write down notes about the people at your table is much easier then a live game, where your writing notes down on the palm of your hand