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Message: [QUOTE="dinoroxxx, post: 1424798, member: 64743"] Without a doubt NLHE and LHE are different animals, BUT you certainly can start out playing limit and increase your NL abilities. If it were me and I wanted to become a solid ABC poker player I'd start at the limit tables and then once profitable start expanding to a comparable NL game. From what I have seen on most Internet boards over the years (been playing Hold'em since late-90's) the new players all like NL and dismiss LHE due to their lack of understanding of the game and variance and what not. I remember going into card rooms and NL games weren't even available, strictly limit and NL was reserved for tourneys (dating myself here). But times have changed and so has the game. Start out on Full Tilt or Poker Stars playing the micro limit tables and beat them (yes they are very beatable with rake and everything, blah, blah, blah). If you can't, you will never beat the higher limits so don't jump until you can afford to, but work your way up as quickly as possible. Use 350 BB (big bets) as your bankroll for jumping to next level on a full ring table. 6 max is yet another beast and is SUPER AGGRO (but very beatable as well, blah, blah, blah). 500 BB should be your BR for 6max limit and once out of micros you I would use 750 or higher due to the level of variance escalation. Get your game going and winning while gaining confidence then expand to your starting NL stake. I'd say you should be able to be beating .05-.10 LHE on like Poker Stars within your first 5K hands if you're good, solid ABC poker player at like 3-5BB/100 within your first 5K hands two-tabling (of course this is just a goal and higher rates are possible with more tables and what not). Add .01-.02 NL ($2NL) once your confident and comfortable and start learning the two games side by side (but play them separately of course). The reason I say this is because in order to max your winnings in poker you will WANT to know how to play both games. I can't count the number of times I've seen the limit side so much more juicier than the rock garden NL side in a casino and the ability to be an all around card player will serve you more profits in the long run. Plus there will be times (if you play live) that seat availability will be an issue and knowing many games increases your earn rates. 6 max can be beat on the micro levels at much higher/profitable rates (like 10+ within first 5K hands) but the level of variance is so much higher and if you don't know the importance of things like position and how starting hand ranges change and expand short handed - you will perish. Hope this helps. Personally, I like to play cards and play many different forms of poker, but Hold'em is the most profitable and learning all forms of it will give you the most profits overall. I still can't understand why players argue the merits of one over the other when they are all different, facets are compatible, and all are beatable. Just my .02 from my experiences, good luck [/QUOTE]

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