Why NL is killing limit.

[MrMore]

1.It's more interesting to watch when you're NOT in the hand.
2.It's more skillful (if you don't know this, you don't understand where the skill in poker comes from). The fun of poker comes from its skill element, and even people who don't have much skill are choosing poker over slots for a reason.
3.Television has popularized it more.
4.It's more of a roller coaster ride. The highs are higher and the lows are lower.
5.Younger, hipper crowd; fewer nits.
6.It makes for a better tournament form, because blind size isn't quite as debilitating a factor. It especially makes early rounds more meaningful (in NL tourneys, you can double or triple up, or go bust, in the early rounds; in limit tourneys, even people on heaters don't often double up).

I see which limit players have switched to NL, and which haven't, and generally it's the better players who've switched. Who's left playing limit? Dogs too old to learn new tricks, and/or, people afraid to actually have to make a real decision (this is not true at the higher limits, because there you find pros who are just playing what their long-time live ones want; in the same way that back east good high stakes players stayed with 7-card stud way past its prime only because the bigger games were filled with older players wanting the old game).

Will the live ones go bust? Do they go bust playing slots? The only real question is: are they enjoying themselves. And in NL, more than limit, the answer is yes. Even though there's more skill in the game, as long as the customers are happy, they'll come back; as long as the game is exciting, they'll come in to begin with.

Those of you who fear the rise of NL need to switch gears and embrace it, because limit is the lowball (west coast)/ stud (east coast) of our time.