How difficult is it to become a good limit player?

[2muchneon]

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note before post: all comments regarding toughness of limits is w/ respect to Stars games, all shorthanded

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IMO after this is when it gets tough. 50/100 has beatable games, but the play becomes MUCH more agressive (especially 100/200 +) and hand reading becomes tougher. I still think with good game selection 50/100 is beatable by a good solid agressive player, but the winrate will be small, and getting to the point where u can beat it easily will take hard work.

I dont have a lot of experience past 50/100, mostly because the games jsut get that much harder. The variance is wild and nasty- it becomes easy to get fooled into thinking your a favorite, when your really not. The edges just get a lot smaller in general and its just hard to get comfortable to not only the tougher hand reading, constant adjustments that need to be made, but also to the big money swings. 100/200 SH can yield bad runs that amount to 60k+ especially when you first test yourself in that limit.



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Sorry if it's bad etiquette to revive an old thread, but I looked through the high limit forum and didn't see much recent traffic that seemed very interesting to me, so I just did a "show last 6 months" instead...

Anyway, which respect to play at Stars, I started at 30-60 and have played up to 200-400. My experience is that the play is somewhat tougher at higher limits, although I don't feel it's as pronounced as you think. I think there is more variance at higher limits, so it definitely seems scarier than the 50-100.

On the other hand, I'm only one person though, and I think I've run well to be able to move up limits quickly, so maybe the level of competition goes up more than I've experienced.

One thing to keep in mind is that sometimes there are just a lot of high rollers who aren't necessarily good players who just aren't interested in playing the lower limits. Or they might be good high-limit live players because they are good at picking up tells but not as great playing on-line, but they still don't want to drop down limits too much.