[HighStakesPro]

In limit, preflop hand selection is much more important than in no limit. You can't just play any two cards beacuse unlike in no limit, you often can't bluff people off of marginal hands like ace high or bottom pair. Similarly, you have to be judicious in deciding whether or not to chase a draw or call someone down with a weak hand. In no limit, you can call someone's bet on the flop with absolutely nothing, because it allows you to represent a hand which you can bluff the guy with on a later street. This is possible to do in limit, but more difficult and much less often, usually when the other guy doesn't have much either. You can't get people to fold strong hands in limit unless its a multiway pot and they're a decent player. Once the pot gets big, you're gonna get called down, and you'll probably have to call down against them. Bluffing often takes a different form in limit. Many times, you will raise with two high cards or a low pocket pair before the flop, and then make a continuation bet on the flop whether you hit or not. If you didn't hit, you can still often get people to fold who are behind, but not so much that they wouldn't call one bet if they knew what you had. Example: someone raises with KJ and you reraise with TT, he calls. The flop is 833. He checks, and you bet. Against most of your reraising hands he has three outs or even zero outs, so he's correct to fold. However if he knew your hand, he'd call you on the flop and on the turn, getting the correct odds to chase his six-outer. But he doesn't know you only have tens, so if he's a good player he'll fold.