Trying Limit Hold'em For A Bit....noticing A Trend, Anyone Else?

[penne 0]

well, i started playing poker about 4 years ago and it was striclty limit hold'em. after running and playing bad for a while i decided to try out no-limit. i loved it, did well and have been playing nothing but nl cash games ever since (about 2 1/2 yrs) mostly online at stars, with the odd tourney mixed in there. recently i found the games to be getting tougher, running bad, playing like a tool etc. i play mostly 0.5/1. i decided to take a break from nl and try a little bit of limit again. i started dabling in the 5/10 6-max game. i found it very fishy, which was not the case when i quit limit. a few things might be going on here:1. playing no-limit has helped my limit game. ive become a better reader of hands, im a little more conservative than i was, i'm more patient.2. with the explosion of no-limit, less people are playing limit, therefore, no-limit games are getting tougher as ppl learn more. but at the same time i can't explain why the 5/10 limit game seems soft.anyone have any thoughts or similar experiences?

[king_tanner 84]

How many sessions or hands have you had at 5/10. Sometimes a few winning sessions doesn't mean the game is soft.

[penne 0]

How many sessions or hands have you had at 5/10. Sometimes a few winning sessions doesn't mean the game is soft.

only about 6 or 7.......... you may be right

[king_tanner 84]

only about 6 or 7.......... you may be right

Yea good discussion topic though maybe. I think you will have a better consensus on which game you prefer once you get a lot more hands in.

[I_fold08 1]

play the 3/6 limit game, it is too good to pass up

[FCP Bob 1,312]

There are bad players at the limit tables all the way up. I've posted a lot of interesting hands in the limit challenge thread. http://www.fullcontactpoker.com/poker-foru...howtopic=119660One of the nice things about limit is that it gives that random recreational player a lot more bang for his buck and he's going to be able to play a few more hands without some regular taking his stack.Personally I find NL holdem horribly boring but that's me and I'm old.Edit: Another reason that limit holdem has appeal to a lot of random recreational players is that for the player who is only playing in one game the action moves much more quickly at a limit table than a no limit one and they don't get bored as easily.

[Yoda 1]

There are bad players at the limit tables all the way up. I've posted a lot of interesting hands in the limit challenge thread. http://www.fullcontactpoker.com/poker-foru...howtopic=119660One of the nice things about limit is that it gives that random recreational player a lot more bang for his buck and he's going to be able to play a few more hands without some regular taking his stack.Personally I find NL holdem horribly boring but that's me and I'm old.Edit: Another reason that limit holdem has appeal to a lot of random recreational players is that for the player who is only playing in one game the action moves much more quickly at a limit table than a no limit one and they don't get bored as easily.

heh, I know you are a limit specialist and a damn good player. But that is horribly backwards.

[Vtlaxer09 4]

heh, I know you are a limit specialist and a damn good player. But that is horribly backwards.

meh not really... like bob said.. the action is very fast paced in limit... and you are playing alot more hands and clicking more often than you are in nlhe games.bob, how do you feel about nlhe tournaments? the same?

[GWCGWC 83]

heh, I know you are a limit specialist and a damn good player. But that is horribly backwards.

No, it's exactly right. NL is a game of folding and nut hunting. Played correctly, (winning the monies), NL is much harder now than in the past because more people have figured this out. There's nothing more boring than waiting for top 10% of hands to play. You can think about NL on an extremely deep level but to win the money, you're still playing very few hands. LHE is a more difficult game for winning the monies for many reasons. There are a lot more decisions in LHE and that's a fact. OP, I think you may be really good at exploiting the fish in the game, simply talented at teh pokah, running good over a small sample, or some combination of the three.

[FCP Bob 1,312]

meh not really... like bob said.. the action is very fast paced in limit... and you are playing alot more hands and clicking more often than you are in nlhe games.bob, how do you feel about nlhe tournaments? the same?

I don't play a lot of NL Tournaments and when I do it's usually something like the VIP Freeroll at Stars or a $54 tournament at On Game where I was given a free ticket to enter. In these cases I do find them a bit boring unless it's a turbo because to get to any meaningful money takes so much time and to play properly at a full table requires mostly folding. Now getting down to the final couple tables and in the money things obviously become a lot more interesting.Things are a lot different of course for somebody who is playing a lot of tournaments at the same time.For a tournament to interest me would require a large enough buyin to get my juices flowing but tournaments like that I would be a large dog in except something like the Sunday Million but then I would have to be prepared to be online for however long it might take.

[XXEddie 0]

2. with the explosion of no-limit, less people are playing limit, therefore, no-limit games are getting tougher as ppl learn more. but at the same time i can't explain why the 5/10 limit game seems soft.anyone have any thoughts or similar experiences?

because there are 15 billion NL players who play limit and spew off cause of 'pot odds' well i getting 8-1 with KQ on the J543 turn.. have to call. J on river...well now im getting like 10-1 cant fold now.and repeat. Learning not to be a spew bot is one of the most important things about limit.

[FCP Bob 1,312]

because there are 15 billion NL players who play limit and spew off cause of 'pot odds' well i getting 8-1 with KQ on the J543 turn.. have to call. J on river...well now im getting like 10-1 cant fold now.and repeat. Learning not to be a spew bot is one of the most important things about limit.

I would say that 3 of the most common mistakes that I see from NL players when they play limit are.1. Play too loose out of the small blind2. Play too tight out of the big blind3. They don't get enough value out of their hands on the river with thin value bets.

[mrpaddyx 13]

Based on the comments in this thread I currently playing some limit hold em. I think I am playing way too many hands but it is an interesting change of pace.

[Yoda 1]

I play a lot of Limit for mixed games, love HORSE. But there is nothing more boring than limit hold em. I don't care how many more hands you play it's a snooze fest.

[ROACHBABY 0]

Random tangent: Has anyone ever had a player at their table that took 30+ seconds on every decision in a limit game? I had a guy do that at a 4/8 Limit game and it was the most annoying thing ever. Even if he was folding preflop he would still milk it. Everyone at the table was bitching at him, it was pretty funny. He must have watched too much WPT and thought that was how you played.

[FCP Bob 1,312]

Random tangent: Has anyone ever had a player at their table that took 30+ seconds on every decision in a limit game? I had a guy do that at a 4/8 Limit game and it was the most annoying thing ever. Even if he was folding preflop he would still milk it. Everyone at the table was bitching at him, it was pretty funny. He must have watched too much WPT and thought that was how you played.

I bet he was wearing sunglasses and a hat too.