Re: What is the appeal of no limit HE?

On Oct 4, 3:11 pm, "Wayne Vinson" <wayne.vin...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My regular cardroom for years had a 20/40 full kill game that was a great
game. Almost every pot was $600+ and there was tons of action. The $300
and $500 NL games killed the 20/40 though and they can't even get it going
anymore. The sad thing is that the people who played in the 20/40 now
just play tight in the nl games and the pots are small. The limit game
was much better.

Big pots don't make for a good game. Generally speaking, in limit holdem,
big pots mean that it's correct to go to showdown with pretty much any
made hand and see the river with pretty much any draw to the (near) nuts.
In other words, it's much harder for someone to make a mistakes beyond
poor starting hand selection in such a game. When the fish aren't making
mistakes, you're not winning money.


This is way wrong. There are a lot of post-flop mistakes that can be
made. Even if they didn't make them, playing bad starting hands is a
costly mistake for the poor players.

Plus a game with such robotic strategy is boring, boring, boring. Limit
holdem is much better when most of the pots are contested heads-up or
close to it so the bets are a meaningful fraction of the pot. Then the
decisions actually matter.

Wayne Vinsonhttp://cardsharp.org

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If by "better" you mean "more of a skillful game" then sure. Better
does not mean more profitable then.

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