[Harv72b]

Your psychology matters. If you just can't handle the swings that sometimes occur in NL, then you shouldn't be playing the game. That's whether the swings themselves mess you up or just the thought that they could occur.

However, you need to appreciate a few things before you go switching over to limit:

1) Online limit games are even tighter then their NL counterparts these days, at least on average. There are more than a few long-time limit players who are testing the waters in NL for exactly that reason.

2) An expert limit player enjoys a smaller edge against his opponents than does an expert NL player. This is simply because your opponents can (and will) make much bigger individual mistakes in NL than in LHE.

3) Limit is actually a higher variance game than NL, at least for a good player. Not in terms of a single hand, but over longer sample sizes & in the fabled "long run". You can very rarely deny your opponents the proper odds to chase down good draws, and the same will be true for you when you're the one holding an OESD or 4-flush...the aggregate of all those bets made (or called) against draws that come in or with draws that miss, and of course the pot odds which often mandate making that river call when the draw does hit, mean that you're going to experience more swings in limit.

You could theoretically lose 300 BBs in 10 minutes of NL, true. I'm sure that if you're playing enough tables it's theoretically possible in limit as well. You need to appreciate, however, just how difficult it can be on your psyche when you're in the middle of a 300 BB downswing that's lasted for nearly a month (or longer); it can & often does affect your play, and if you play often enough, your life outside of poker as well.

If you want to make the switch, or at least to give it a shot, by all means do. Just make sure that you understand what you're getting yourself into before you make that leap. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]