Stick with limit or play No Limit.
Hi,
I'm trying to decide if I should stay playing limit hold'em or switch to No limit.
Reasons for limit.
Brantford is 33km from where I live. ( about 33 mins)
Seneca is 60 miles away , about 1 hour and 9 min
I'm probably a much better limit player than a no limit player. Most of my live poker has been limit poker.
Reasons for No limit.
No limit is the wave of the future. All the new donkeys watch tv and decide that real men play no limit. So at places that offer no limit and limit the low hanging fruit is bad No limit players.
Anything I'm leaving out?
I'm trying to decide if I should stay playing limit hold'em or switch to No limit.
Reasons for limit.
Brantford is 33km from where I live. ( about 33 mins)
Seneca is 60 miles away , about 1 hour and 9 min
I'm probably a much better limit player than a no limit player. Most of my live poker has been limit poker.
Reasons for No limit.
No limit is the wave of the future. All the new donkeys watch tv and decide that real men play no limit. So at places that offer no limit and limit the low hanging fruit is bad No limit players.
Anything I'm leaving out?
Comments
Thanks Milo,
I'm bankrolled sufficiently so that variance and swings won't have any effect.
I wouldn't switch to just strictly no limit. I believe that you should take turns going to Brantford & Seneca.
If this is the case and you are a winning player then I would definitely not switch entirely to no limit.
You are leaving out the fact that the players you will be sitting with may already have much more experience playing nl cash games than you do. You may find that you are the fish at the table and that it may take some time for you to be a winning player in no limit.
I am starting to play nl cash games online and the swings definitely be frustrating at times.
I think you already know the answer to this if you have a roll and some live nl experience, 1/2 and 2/5 nl in a casino is as easy as it comes...you can always play limit online.
You will find though you will have an easy time once you understand certain NL concepts as your hand reading skills from Limit come in handy and you can pick people off like an assasin
Think of limit as riding a mountain bike with training wheels...all the NL kids are jumping off big dirt mounds after just buying the bike with no idea why they are jumping.
You already know how to jump, you just need to practice riding the mountain bike....
If your a winning player at limit, you should have little trouble becoming a winning player at no-limit... and generally, you can make more money faster at no-limit than at limit.
Start at the lower limits, and move up as your ability and bankroll permit. The donks that learn the game from TV are a gift from the gods... and they're all at the NL games.
I started playing regularly in a casino in '99... stud and limit... neither compare in earning potential to the NL games that are available now.
All together now... "God bless the pocket cam!"
Is that game raked or session like fallsview. If it's session I wouldn't bother as it's $5/30 minutes. Too much money comes off the table. I'd buy in short stacked in a $200 game before I played with that kind of fee.
Yeah I won't play the Fallsview $5/half hour rake 1/2NL. 5 Big blinds an hour makes the game unbeatable. That's probably equal to about 20 Big blinds / 100 hands... Insane....
I couldn't agree more!. I normally play NL, but went back to Limit for a month or so, the attention to detail needed in reading hands in limit, really made me sharpen up my play.
The first few weeks back into NL after limit, I was killing it, because I was reading the play so well. I was putting people on hands, and was correct or pretty close to the mark majority of the time.