Black Deuces - Poker Blog » profit limit hold’em http://www.blackdeuces.net A young pokerplayer tries to build a LIVE poker bankroll. (But is mostly playing online poker these days.) Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:38:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Black Deuces’ confessions #1: I like Limit Hold’em http://www.blackdeuces.net/black-deuces-confessions-1-i-like-limit-holdem/ http://www.blackdeuces.net/black-deuces-confessions-1-i-like-limit-holdem/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:53:39 +0000 blackdeuces87 http://www.blackdeuces.net/?p=178 For reasons unknown to me, many players look down on Limit Hold’em. I even heard it being referred to as ‘an old man’s game’. They find LHE isn’t as ‘exciting’ as No-Limit or Pot-Limit games, mainly because there isn’t much action and the pots stay relatively small.

True, the amount you can win in one single hand is smaller than in No-Limit (duh!), but Limit Hold’em might be one of the most action packed poker games out there these days. Players stay in hands way too long with a marginal hand, chase draws even when they are drawing dead, fill up and as a result donk a lot of cash away in short periods of time. And the best part: because the pots stay relatively small, they don’t get the feeling they are loosing big, so they KEEP donking chips away.

A good example:

And the best part: ‘lebruske’ was one of the better players at the table! It’s a goldmine out there, go check it out.

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