Advantages of PLHE vs NLHE

Anyone here play pot limit? What are the main differences from No limit? Are the basic ring or tournament strategies much the same?

I wonder whether there is more post-flop play with PL since you can't go AI as easily? If so it might be a good place to practise my post-flop game - a weakness of mine at present.

Any thoughts?

No difference except for the smaller raises preflop. Everything else plays about the same. Of course, I've only played PL off and on.

-'rilla

Also stuff like building a pot pre-flop with med pocket pairs is more important since you can't just put down a silly over-bet.

Yeah, its a little harder to get reads cause people can't make "silly overbets". But i don't play PL alot.

big pairs go down in value, suited connectors go up.

bets limited to the size of the pot mean that you can't shut out straight / flush draws.

That's not really true, to draw to a flush you're typically looking at 4:1 odds, if there aren't too many people in the pot you should be able to give draws pretty bad odds, how many people bet more than pot size to drive out draws in NL?

If you put your opponent on a river flush draw you should give him 19% or 9 outs as opposed to 25%. If the pot is 20 then a bet of 6 should technically take him out. Am I right? Edit: best make it 8 Razz

Btw that Family Guy quote owns =)

Technically.

I make it a bit more, though, since I tend to pay it off a little more often than I should.

i don't believe there are any advantages to pl, i don't like playing it but i do in trnys, too many ppl stay with garbage

There are differences, but they're more prevalent in omaha when hands can change on a whim. I can't play NL Omaha because of this, your nuts shrivel up on the turn/river often enough to where it doesn't work out.

I do notice in PL for any game that the pots grow somewhat faster because it's "less" to call each round.

yes ur right, & another thing i have noticed lately is that in pl trnys, they seem to lose a lot of players really early, unlike nl

I imagine there's more limp-raising from early position in pot limit games.

I played pot limit yesterday for the first time and didn't like it. I think it was from a (nother) glitch in pacifics software. I had sit down at a 10$ NL table and it wouldn't let me overbet.

The advantage is in favor of the person drawing. As mentioned above it's harder to stop straight and flush draws.

Example: a guy had been mini-raising almost everyhand preflop. (short table, 4 other players)

I re-raise with A7o. Flop is AAk.
He bets and I try and put him all in. The computer modifies my bet to pot size. He calls. Turn is a 9...

You can see where it's going. His QJ gets his T on the river.

The guy was aggro and I would have lost anyway, because had I put him all in, I think he still probably would have called. I just would have felt "better" about the loss.

Oh well...what ya gonna do except stick to NL where you can put it all in when you have the best of it?..

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Thanks for the comments. I think pot limit is more challenging since it makes you play postflop more, rather than reducing the game to preflop decisions - especially in SnGs or tournies. It's less easy to take advantage of bad play so maybe that's why most people prefer NL. I'm going to give it a go to improve my postflop game without risking as much as I would in NL.

I like pot limit. I prefer no limit, but no limit can also lend itself to crazies who just like pushing all in and making big, desperate bluffs. And while those crazies can be profitable, playing against them is often not very fun.

I treat them pretty much the same. I mean, seriously, how many times are you truly betting more than the pot? The only hands that call you when that happens should completely own you.

The main difference is that you can try to catch PP sets with abandon, since the maximum raise is only 3.5x the BB if nobody else has done anything yet. As far as postflop, it plays pretty much the same except for one aspect: you can't check the nuts on teh flop and turn and expect to get a gigantic pot. You're probably going to have the bet on one of these streets, but this is still holds pretty true in NL as well. You're not going to get someone to call a massive overbet (5-10x the pot) on the river anyway if they weren't betting beforehand.

PL>NL, just because I can call with PP's easier. But really, the difference is fairily negligible.

yep; just as well. I mean, when am I really betting more than the pot postflop anyways if I expect to get a call?

I started out playing pot limit almost exclusivly because i thought it would help me to learn to play better. I still go back from time to time (i even sometimes warm up there to get my mind focused)
Problem is as already mentioned that top pairs and sets are badly devalued. If you raise preflop with AA you get a table of callers with all sorts of trash. Yet i think it definalty helped me when i tried to learn more about how and why people bet at certain flops and how they play draws. Im not saying by any means im an expert but it helped my understanding of betting, flop textures and the things that begin to make you think about the game and not just the cards you are dealt.
I found also it was a good place to learn positional play without it costing you dear, but the real money is to be made in nl imo.

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