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Old 11-28-2007, 09:36 AM
TheWorstPlayer TheWorstPlayer is offline
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Default Re: How is the 100-200 game in Bellagio?

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Hi TWP,

You won't want to hear this...live: 20/40 probably because you can just out-fold everyone preflop. online: I very much doubt you can beat 10/20 like you think. The 10/20 6max games going on party day in and day out are tougher than any live 40/80 game I've played in probably ever, filled with a lot of guys that were beating a lot bigger games back on party poker.

If I had to describe what NL players do wrong at limit, it would be sort of difficult, because a NL player can blend in at a limit table for awhile depending on cards and the situations he gets into. But when a NL player makes a mistake in a limit game, he tends to make a BIG mistake, or a compounding mistake. He also tends to have a poor conception of his opponents' hand range so he has to play really 0'th level / ABC.

I know there is a sort of simmering anger that limit players all think NL players are bad at their game and NL players think limit poker is the kiddie game down the street, but since I know you are talking about legitimate stakes for both games, a winning player in one is pretty likely to be a fish in the other, at least right away.

-DeathDonkey

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Thanks, DD. I think a big problem I have is that when you're used to playing multi-thousand dollar pots in NL, you don't want to go and play multi-hundred dollar pots in fixed limit. So you move from 10/20 NL to 100/200 FL. But I'll take your words to heart and probably won't sit in any terrible FL games. Although I have been reading this high stakes board for years, so that should have prepared me to beat high stakes games, WTF!

(Also, the 10/20 FL comment comes from actually playing 10/20 on stars, not from just completely idle speculation. But I've only played a few thousand hands, so obviously I can't prove that I'm a winner. I am up money, though, and feel like I can certainly identify the fish and identify leaks in the non-fish, etc.)
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