Fixed Limit Holdem

[Yen_Sid]

Okay what's the views on the limit game? I've been pretty much playing no limit cash all the time for the last 6 weeks, .12/.25€, .25/.50€ and sometimes a bit higher when I've had a few . Anyway, someone asked if I'd tried limit so have been giving that a shot the past 2 days. Maybe beginners luck but I find it pretty easy to build the stack and without the stress/pressure of losing full buy-ins on one hand.

So what's the fors/againsts?

[MickeyPaul]

Found an old page I made up from a Jezza post which may help: http://www.thedailypunt.com/poker/articles/limit.html

[Yen_Sid]

"The crux of it all is you cannot punish bad players as heavily in limit poker. You can never stack someone for all their money that they have, nor can you put anyone to a really tough decision - in limit they only have to worry about 1 bet. This is pretty lame to be honest, it just means you get a bunch of pansys playing at the limit tables as they dont want to be put to tough decisions. A bad decision in limit is punishing for only a few bets either way. It takes a whole night of bad decisions to seriously decimate you. In no limit just 1 single wrong decision can cost you your WHOLE stack or see you bluffed out of a gigantic pot, a lot of players fear having to make these choices and as such stick to the limit tables. Personally I would advocate limit poker to anyone starting out and wanting to learn, then NL tourneys, then small stakes NL cash before moving up."

"To sum up, limit poker is just G A Y "

Aye!!! Bloody poofs game, won't be doing that again, honest.

[Doc]

it is true that 1 bad decision can't cost you your whole stack, but equally one bad decision by your opponent, who then sucks out, can't cost you your whole stack either.

The reality is that they are different games that demand different approaches and skills.

You can be a very effective and profitable NL player and still make lots of 'mistakes' if some other part of your game compensates. In limit you can't do that. That demands more in one sense, but it also means that your range of 'weapons' is more limited

[nonecks]

Limit holdem is a joke, you can make better decisions than nl but ultimately you have to run good with cards to do well especially in tournaments. In cash games it isn't so bad.

[Doc]

not so nonecks - you just have to adjust. It is true that you can't make as much on your really big hands in a tourney, so you have to play more marginal hands - which takes real skill.

It is just a different game. You can't play speculative hands in limit - you have to either play for value or judiciously bluff. The implied odds are very different - you won't make a packet (because your bet size is limited), but you will get calls that you won't get in NL.

[nonecks]

imo.

[Hippy Dave]

It's basically boring, hence no-one posts on it

[AnothrSpacecat]

Cant stand it

[kompressaur]

It's for girls and mummy's boys aint it?

[AnothrSpacecat]

im going to have one more game tonight. might make it limit for the hell of it. will it take me all night?

[kompressaur]

why have you turned all No Limit scared Spacecat? It been one of them nights? Surely you cant have that bad a night that it turns you to playing Limit Holdem?

[AnothrSpacecat]

mate i just got the old giant 365 trophy on my screen im now getting used to there

felt really sorry for the people on that table, i talked pure shite to them all the way through and made them go all in against each other

started off asking what they were all listening too at first and ended up going on about pumping iron and shoplifting from safeways when i was in school.

[kompressaur]

Aye but Spacecat.....your playing Limit Holdem! It's not cool to be cool with uncool people You better watch yourrself spacecat. Before you know it you could be 'them' and soon you'll be wondering 'whatever went wrong in my life'. I'd nip it in the bud mate. 3am Big Pot No Limit tournie on bet365. Usually only about 80 in. I'd play that like a rock and roller and make folks frighted of you. Use it as your bedtime arranger. by 5am you'll be pushing 60,000 chips into the middle as you know he aint got an ace. you know it makes sense

[AnothrSpacecat]

no it was no limit, i couldnt find a limit game anywhere, i told myself i wanted a quick last game and went for a small sng, with that many people i could knock them out in about a dozen hands and just about did. i was egging them on to get each other too