Limit Poker Strategy
Well I havent played poker in the last 5 days due to hell week at work. Been working 16 hour days and I think all those early days when I was slacking off is finally catching up with me.
Well am playing my first tourney since last weekend so wish me luck!
One thing I wanted to talk about though is Limit Poker. For those og you not familiar with how it goes, basically there is a maximum bet and raise allowed. So if the blinds are $1/$2 then the SB is 50 cents and the BB is $1. From there people can only raise $1 and so fourth up to a maximum of 4 raises per betting round. On the turn the bets double to $2 as well as the river.
So why am I dabbling into this rather then sticking to No Limit? The reason being is that it allows you to gain so much points, bonus dollar clearance and rakeback!! When you sit in a limit poker game, most players will limp in because there is no risk of being priced out by a large raise. This allows you to sit back with big pots being played and gaining all the rakeback and bonus points in the shortest time possible!
A key strategic change here is the starting hands you should play. Bluffing and aggressive play is not too rewarded here and its all about hitting the nuts. With this in mind the starting hands I play are:
AA, KK, QQ - obviously
Ax suited - flop a flush or flush draw on the flop. If you don't you're done.
Any pocket pair - flop a set or you're done.
The great thing about limit poker is due to the limited raises you are almost always getting correct odds for yor straight or flush draw. Its just important to know when you are high carded on your flushes and not to draw to the idiot end of a straight.
So to the new starting players in online poker, I suggest you give the $1/$2 limit tables a try. It doesnt work for everyone and you will have bad days where you don't seem to hit a single flop but statistically speaking, it is the best possible way of earning rakeback, bonus dollars and frequent players points.
Lastly, the moves become very automatic since reads and bluffs arent as important as in NL. Due to this fact, multi-tabling is a lot easier to do. Heck I bet you could even teach your maid to do it when you go to sleep hehe.
Well am playing my first tourney since last weekend so wish me luck!
One thing I wanted to talk about though is Limit Poker. For those og you not familiar with how it goes, basically there is a maximum bet and raise allowed. So if the blinds are $1/$2 then the SB is 50 cents and the BB is $1. From there people can only raise $1 and so fourth up to a maximum of 4 raises per betting round. On the turn the bets double to $2 as well as the river.
So why am I dabbling into this rather then sticking to No Limit? The reason being is that it allows you to gain so much points, bonus dollar clearance and rakeback!! When you sit in a limit poker game, most players will limp in because there is no risk of being priced out by a large raise. This allows you to sit back with big pots being played and gaining all the rakeback and bonus points in the shortest time possible!
A key strategic change here is the starting hands you should play. Bluffing and aggressive play is not too rewarded here and its all about hitting the nuts. With this in mind the starting hands I play are:
AA, KK, QQ - obviously
Ax suited - flop a flush or flush draw on the flop. If you don't you're done.
Any pocket pair - flop a set or you're done.
The great thing about limit poker is due to the limited raises you are almost always getting correct odds for yor straight or flush draw. Its just important to know when you are high carded on your flushes and not to draw to the idiot end of a straight.
So to the new starting players in online poker, I suggest you give the $1/$2 limit tables a try. It doesnt work for everyone and you will have bad days where you don't seem to hit a single flop but statistically speaking, it is the best possible way of earning rakeback, bonus dollars and frequent players points.
Lastly, the moves become very automatic since reads and bluffs arent as important as in NL. Due to this fact, multi-tabling is a lot easier to do. Heck I bet you could even teach your maid to do it when you go to sleep hehe.
posted by GameFrog at 5:35 PM
8 Comments:
"So if the blinds are $1/$2 then the SB is 50 cents and the BB is $1."
they actually call it "stakes" instead of blinds right? If the stakes are $2/$4, then the blinds are $1/$2. ganun yata hehe. ;)
oh, and isnt there no maximum raises when there's two people left in the pot? i remember this story where two guys re-raised each other more than 15 times until one finally just called, and one showed the nut flush and the other had a straight flush.
anyway, a poker pro said in one book that playing limit is "like watching paint dry", and that stuck to my head hehe.
I know they cap every round... 4-bets.
teka lets ask nick.
from what i know, ther is no cap when there are two players left in a hand. tama ba? kasi i remember andy beal and todd brunson raising and re-raising for how many times in one of their matches in "The professor, The Banker, and the Suicide King".
pag heads up siguro iba?
Well in all online poker games that max is 4 reraises no matter how many players there are Mav.
I would say they have to cut it off sometime or people will just "raise you until you're all-in?" And it essentially becomes no limit hold em.
woops good point on your quote maverick hehehe. They just call it the $1/$2 table and not blinds.
Mav, yup when there are only two players in a betting round some casino's allow unlimited number of raises...
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From Robers Rules:
4. Unlimited raising is allowed in heads-up play. This applies any time the action becomes heads-up before the raising has been capped. Once the raising is capped on a betting round, it cannot be uncapped by a subsequent fold that leaves two players heads-up.
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