It's funny -- you're more or less predicting the posts I have in the
hopper under construction for later. I have thought a lot about
the variance differences between limit and NL, and I'll have a lot
more to say about it soon.
However, when you recall me being down on limit (which came late,
actually, in my poker play), was because I suffered some really
terrible runs playing limit. The problem I find, when you are
at a table full of limit fish, you can easily get hit with some
statistically unlikely beats, and they happen over and over.
So, while you protect yourself from that "one bad beat", you can
have a sum total of them that can hit you must worse.
This comes in part from having to play much bigger. My dollar rate per
100 hands is about the same in $1/2 NL as it is in $10/$20
limit, because better players can win more.
Anyway, I have much more to say, but I'll save it for a later post.
I'll end here by saying that I think a good poker player should
cultivate very strong skills in all known
betting structures (PL, NL, and limit), and all
common games (at least Omaha, O/8, Stud, Stud/8 and
HE).
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Re: NL vs Limit
Date: 2006-01-31 04:13 (UTC)It's funny -- you're more or less predicting the posts I have in the hopper under construction for later. I have thought a lot about the variance differences between limit and NL, and I'll have a lot more to say about it soon.
However, when you recall me being down on limit (which came late, actually, in my poker play), was because I suffered some really terrible runs playing limit. The problem I find, when you are at a table full of limit fish, you can easily get hit with some statistically unlikely beats, and they happen over and over. So, while you protect yourself from that "one bad beat", you can have a sum total of them that can hit you must worse.
This comes in part from having to play much bigger. My dollar rate per 100 hands is about the same in $1/2 NL as it is in $10/$20 limit, because better players can win more.
Anyway, I have much more to say, but I'll save it for a later post. I'll end here by saying that I think a good poker player should cultivate very strong skills in all known betting structures (PL, NL, and limit), and all common games (at least Omaha, O/8, Stud, Stud/8 and HE).