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Posted: Wed, 14 May 2008, 1:37am Post subject: Just started with limit |
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3-of-a-Kind
Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 105
WPP: 111
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I read some of the basic stuff on this site and looked at some hand charts and decided I should try limit. It seems like the .5/1 games are extremely soft on Poker Stars. Does limit tend to be softer or tougher than no limit.
Maybee it's just beginers luck. Maybee it's soft at 1-3 in the mourning Pacific time but I made 80 BB over 317 hands. I doubt I could sustain it but the tables seemed exceptionally soft. Calling down lots of second pairs and even complete air. Seems like it is easy to bluff the river if a flush draw comes on the board also. |
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Posted: Thu, 15 May 2008, 9:54am Post subject: Re: Just started with limit |
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One Pair
Joined: 02 May 2007
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| bigteif wrote: | | Does limit tend to be softer or tougher than no limit. |
Limit poker is a game of small edges that must be taken advantage of over and over again. You can't really call it softer or tougher than no-limit.
The one big difference is that making an incorrect decision only once can be quite costly in no-limit, while you won't be felted by a single error in limit. Conversely, you won't win someone else's stack when they make the error in limit either.
When playing limit, it is the small pluses, together with the small bets saved, that make or break you over time.
| bigteif wrote: | | I made 80 BB over 317 hands. |
A sample size of 317 is virtually irrelevant. Look at your win rate over 10,000 hands, and you'll begin to see if you're playing the game well.
| bigteif wrote: | | Seems like it is easy to bluff the river if a flush draw comes on the board also. |
Bluffing is a much smaller factor in limit... especially on the river. At that point, the pot is generally too big, relative to the size of the bet, to make bluffing profitable.
However, semi-bluffing, along with raising to take the lead in a hand, are legitimate limit tactics. |
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Posted: Thu, 15 May 2008, 11:34pm Post subject: Re: Just started with limit |
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Flush
Joined: 20 Aug 2007
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| bigteif wrote: | | Maybee it's soft at 1-3 in the mourning Pacific time but I made 80 BB over 317 hands. |
My experience has been that all tables are soft at that time.
It has also been that you should enjoy hot streaks while they last, because they do come to an end and it can be long and dry before the next one. |
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Posted: Fri, 16 May 2008, 11:09am Post subject: Re: Just started with limit |
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Flush
Joined: 07 Aug 2007
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| arborman wrote: | | It has also been that you should enjoy hot streaks while they last, because they do come to an end and it can be long and dry before the next one. |
Given that some very good players record break-even stretches of 100,000 hands, it can be VERY long and dry!! |
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Posted: Sat, 17 May 2008, 3:54am Post subject: I am new here |
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Can some one give more info on poker games?
Niya |
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