[stoxtrader]

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What a great topic. Just randomly stumbled upon this part of the forum and I'm glad I did.

You (and many others) have started online grinding with LHE and then later picker up NLHE. I, like probably a lot of people who've just recently started playing, started with NLHE. It's by far my best game and with the current lucrative state of the lower stakes NLHE games, it's been good to me.

So, do you think there's any value in learning LHE? Is being able to beat the big games in both a big advantage for you, or would you advise a newcomer to just focus on one game?

Taking an even more of a large-scale view, where do you think the big profits will lie in online poker in the future? PLO seems to be on the rise now and a lot of NL players have switched there and posted some great results. Do you think we'll see a lot of changes like this in the future of poker? Will we see another really dramatic swing like the rise of NL cash 3-4 years ago?

Where will the dead money be tomorrow and how should the online grinder prepare?

Thanks!

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there is a tradeoff between investing in future earnings (learning new games), and grinding for maximum current profit. I think NLHE and LHE will always be here and PLO will join the ranks of the "main games" soon.

I do think it gets easier to learn each successive form of poker because a lot of the skill that make a good poker player are not game specific...If I had to say i would encourage ppl to learn those three games: LHE, NLHE and PLO.

I thikn future profits will continue to be in those three spots and I don't see one game really killing the other two.