It’s an amazing day in a lot of ways. The sun is out and warm. I got out of work early. It’s a long holiday weekend. I’m playing Limit Hold’em. Wait, what was that last part? Ah yes. I realize that many of you are thinking ,’ brdweb, no-limit is where all the fish and action are!’
Well sure, there might be more tables and action out there in NL land. However I’ve come to realize that although I don’t feel that I’m a bad NL player, I don’t like the swings very much. That’s probably why I enjoy MTTs so much. They let me use my NL skills but I have both a built-in stop loss amount and the opportunity for a big payday. When it comes to cash play though I just like to take advantage of others’ mistakes slowly. Why take a risk that they’ll hit their 3 outer on one hand when I’m pretty much guaranteed to get their chips slowly if we play long enough?
I deposited some cash on Stars so that I could take advantage of their 1 billionth hand reload bonus. That’s another area where limit has the advantage, at least online. You can clear a bonus much faster playing limit. So I’m two-tabling 1-2 6-max tables and as I sat there I realized that stars actually still has plenty of fish playing limit poker! I had played a bit recently on FTP and didn’t notice it to quite that extent although I was still ahead there.
I would have to assume that this holds true for live play as well. I know that a lot of folks think that online fish are bigger donkeys that live but I just always seem to see even worse play in a casino. I feel that it’s because that when somebody takes the time to actually drive to a casino they really want to get in the action. Online, you can play at any time you want so you don’t have that itch to play.
Pauly recently wrote about admitting that he’s just a limit grinder and is not ashamed to admit it. Well put me into that category too.
