Matt24 said:
Correct.
Limit is a much more swingier game than NL for a skilled player. 500 big bet downswings will happen!
Are you kidding me, 500BB swings? Never and I mean never ever came close to that. I played limit HE for many years (before it became real popular) and operated out of a bankroll that was 300BB and never came close to busting it. No offense but if you are seeing that kind of swings then you need to take a long hard look at what you are doing, something doesn't sound right.
I'll speak just from my own experience but both games to me were almost identical when broke down in an hourly rate. The difference was the NL had a much bigger fluctation than the limit in my play. Over time both would equal out but I would have some wild swings in the NL side of things I would not get in the limit. I won't say this is standard for everyone because lot of factors can go into this, maybe someone is playing in a wild NL games or vice versa, maybe the player plays one or the other better and so on. In short I don't think there is a universal answer, to me the NL was always a much bigger fluctuation than the limit.
PS - about that 500BB I do want to say I am speaking about my own experience in B & M games. In todays world with more and more playing strictly online perhaps 500BB downswings are easier since guys are usually playing several games at once and seeing a greater number of hands. I still think if you are going through that kind of fluctuation you are simply not playing limit the proper way but I do agree it would be much easier to do it online than you would in the brick and mortar games of old.
Most of us peasants only play 3/6 on this board. And at that level, whether you're online or at the Bellagio, a player that learns how to use outs and pot size to determine his actions is way ahead of most other players.
