Fish Migrate - But will ANYTHING ever drive new players away from NL??

[surfinillini]

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This was in all the 2+2 books and steered me away from NL for a long time. What a waste of time playing limit!!! It's one of the few pieces of standard 2+2 wisdom that is obviously just wrong in the modern era.

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I'm sure the wisdom was dead on at the time of printing. Who could accurately foresee NLHE becoming an ESPN "sport" w/ kids high fiving after all-in coin flips?

Being a one-trick poker pony is boring anyway.

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zee,

I don't people give players who can play deep NL cash games enough credit for being good at a game that is much more complex than high stakes limit

limit is almost robotic and mechanical, NL actually takes some deeper thought...

[CrayZee]

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zee,

I don't people give players who can play deep NL cash games enough credit for being good at a game that is much more complex than high stakes limit

limit is almost robotic and mechanical, NL actually takes some deeper thought...

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It does seem to me that deep stack NLHE is more complex.. not that I know anything. FR LHE certainly has a formulaic and mechanical feel and a game that I find somewhat boring to play (perhaps SH is much more mechanical compared its NL counterpart, too).

I know that Mason was making points that spots in LHE were harder/marginal compared to NLHE. Perhaps he was also arguing that the complexity of LHE shouldn't be dismissed? Because of the whole fixed bet size thang, it would seem to imply that the game is much more simple regardless of whether or not it actually is.

Has Mason changed his position of NLHE < LHE in terms of complexity? Or was it to simply make a point and to spark debate?