Re: How difficult is it to become a good limit player?
I like the way emerson put it... that LHE required knowledge, and thus a 'student' who's been playing for a while will express that "it's easy." Whereas NLHE is more difficult to study, but will come easily to people with good 'instincts'.
Of course like most things, you can't really simplify it this easily. But in my experience I can agree, although I've never thought of it in that exact way. I enjoy LHE because it is a much more linear learning curve, so I feel like I am progressing more consistently. I have played quite a bit of NLHE, and have gotten frustrated because hands rarely get shown down - you have to rely on 'instincts' more than cut-n-dry knowledge. Apparently I don't have only mediocre instincts, and I'm fine with that. My personality is not that of a die-hard poker player anyways (Mike McDermott comes to mind).
I think, to each his own! The differences in the games are why they can sucessfully co-exist.
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