Waiting for Your Cards in Limit Hold ‘em
In limit hold ‘em online poker, things can get pretty dire for the casino player who is suffering through a dry run of pokercards. If you haven’t seen anything playable in your hole cards for a few rounds, it’s a lot harder to stay in the game than when you are playing no limit hold ‘em, because you can’t bluff as effectively.
In no limit, you can bet your whole stack before the flop and encourage your opponents to fold to you pretty effectively. In limit hold ‘em, however, you are given a strict betting limit. In 3/6 limit, for example, you can only raise $3 before the flop. It’s a lot harder to get someone to fold pre-flop with a measly $3 raise.
On the other hand, most times in limit poker you can see the flop relatively cheaply. The most that you’ll have to pay to see it in 3/6 is usually no more than $6 if someone raises. With bargain flops, you can afford to play a little more loosely than you could in no limit, where you can get raised your whole stack at any time, so feel a little more at ease in checking out the flop.