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Someone e-mailed yesterday (Mike Porelka) and asked me to clarify what I mentioned yesterday with regards what I said about the similarities between limit and NLHE and how close they are.

Well I hope that I made myself clear but if not then I will have a second stab at it, they are almost two totally different games that share many common themes……this is about the best that I can put it. They are different enough to give millions of players worldwide an awful lot of trouble and NL players find moving to limit tough and vice versa.

Any player who thinks that moving to limit hold’em is simple because you are not risking your entire stack has seriously missed the point of what limit is about. You may not make an error that costs you your entire stack like in NLHE but if you cannot make good solid poker decisions in enough quantity then limit poker will be like death by a thousand cuts.

My analogy with the isolation with position example yesterday highlights a clear point.

NLHE……..a weakish middle position player limps in and it is folded around to you on the button with the 7-5……you raise the pot to fold out the blinds and isolate against the single limper or to take the pot down pre-lop.

LIMIT…….same situation but here you wouldnt want to raise or even call as you are isolating with a hand that cannot stand a showdown and you will see many more showdowns in limit hold’em. Plus the single bet raise will likely not fold out the big blind either.

In this instance, say of the aggressive cut-off raised and you held J-10s on the button, now would be a good time to three bet and isolate with position in limit. The combined effect of your position, the action probably folding out most of the range of the SB/BB and the average range of the raiser makes the play viable in this instance.

So you can see that they are similar in principle but yet very different and those differences have to be learned. This is basically part of what I meant when I said that they are alike. I didnt mean that you could just do the same in limit that you can in NL and vice versa. But once you start to become familiar with both games then you will see the similarities in both…..I hope that makes what I said a little clearer but time and space dictates that I cannot write more.

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