No Limit vs Limit Hold Em

jaeh00d · #1 12-12-05, 03:50 AM

How is it you guys play these two games differently?

As well as Limit tournament an cash games?

I'd really appreciate your input I'm having trouble in my cash game play.

Talking Poker · #2 12-12-05, 03:57 AM

I'll answer this by saying that that is WAY too broad of a question.

The games are completely different. Limit is about math and being mechanical, where NL is more about feel and making moves. Skilled players can get away with playing a lot more hands preflop in NL, but they would get crushed playing those exact same hands in limit in the long run. Because of the fixed betting limits, the implied odds just aren't there to run with almost any two cards, so some people are capable of doing successfully in NL.

Cash games and tourneys are very different as well. The most important difference, of course, is that when you bust out of a cash game, you can reload. In a tourney, you are done and that's the end for you. Fortunately, this is true for your opponents too, which results in a completely different situations than you find in cash games.

jaeh00d · #3 12-12-05, 04:00 AM

yea tp i agree that was way to broad. In other words i am a great tourney player but suffer success in cash games. in other words what are some of the things that i could do to become a better cash game player.

i just had a good cash game session, at the .50 / 1 level. i more than doubled up my buy in. As soon as that happened i got the hell out though

Talking Poker · #4 12-12-05, 04:03 AM

Read a books. Play 10,000 hands. Repeat.

jaeh00d · #5 12-12-05, 04:08 AM

yea i need to go back to my super system 2 and read the limit chapter by harman

Talking Poker · #6 12-12-05, 04:23 AM

Go buy Small Stakes Hold'Em. That will set you right in your ways.

jaeh00d · #7 12-12-05, 05:02 AM

written by skalnsky?

Zybomb · #8 12-12-05, 05:19 AM

limit and no limit are two completely different games. Go read my last post in the 'how should I' section ... that would never work in limit...

I was gunna link you to an old thread in which I answered this Q in detail, but when i do a search it only shows my last 500 (and this wasnt one of em)

jaeh00d · #9 12-12-05, 05:31 AM

Talking about me being really shitty in Limit Hold em cash games.

I have tripled myankroll in the past 3 hours playing Limit Cash Games!!!

thats it im done testing my luck for the night........

Talking Poker · #10 12-12-05, 02:20 PM

I think he's a contributor, but it's primarily Ed Miller's book: