I have been playing Poker for a good few years now and when I first started it was on Facebook for fun money. I picked up a lot of bad habits because you can shove all-in with any muck and if you are busted out you wait until the next day and pick up more free chips.
When I went on-line to start playing serious poker I had never played a live game in a Casino or a pub, and I found it hard to get very far and kept losing mainly due to the bad habits picked up in fun money games.
I took a few on-line tutorials like
pokerstars School, read a few books and began to realise what I was doing wrong. Soon I was making the money in some free-rolls and built up a small bankroll, and then started to play Sit and Go tourney's. I did so well on-line I decided to take it to the next level and started playing in a few local pubs and clubs. winning some games and losing others but making a profit overall. I was still playing the odd game on-line, but Live games is what I really loved.
I tried my first Cash Game in a local pub and the difference between tourney play and cash game play was amazing but I must admit I took advantage of the fact that I didn't drink while I was playing and could take money off the drunkest opponents easily.
I started playing cash games on-line and started to lose heavily, losing 20 to 30 dollars in a single day, so stopped playing on-line for a long time.
Due to this terrible pandemic Covid19 I have returned to on-line poker and have managed to recoup the money I lost and almost double my bankroll in a few months but that is due to MTTs and Sit and Go games, In my honest opinion I would say stay away from cash games and stick with what you know and play best.