It was never A x K x on a king-high board, it was never a draw - it was the goods.įurthermore, the average pot I played was far bigger than the average pot that I play in a $1/$2 no-limit game. If they bet, my goodness, they were beating top-top and you simply had to evaluate your chances against a Very Good Hand.Ī check-raise promised at least two pair. After that, they checked and called if they thought they weren't drawing dead. If you raised, they called, because they wanted to see the flop. They all limped in so they could hit a flop. But I digress.įolks, as I watched and played this game, I realized I was seeing something that I hadn't seen in years - the most honest, transparent game of poker imaginable. Unlike no-limit, with all its mixing and matching of colors, a good limit game has exactly one color chip in action.

I sat down and built up my five perfect stacks of $1 chips. Are you familiar with that?' Me: 'Yeah, I played it a time or two.' Room manager: 'How many chips would you like?' Me: 'You got a seat?' Room manager: 'Yes sir. Wander into the poker room and they've got a game going. I was at a casino recently and thought I'd sit down and play a little poker. Is it just because you can't shove all in? Because you have to earn your money one pot at a time rather than in a couple of massive double-ups? Because you basically always have to play four streets of poker?Īnd there's this thing about profit - sometimes it's fun to make money at poker without working hard at it.

I know that among a certain subset of the poker community, it's quite fashionable to treat fixed-limit hold'em as something like a polyester suit - it was fine a generation ago, but now is part of the past. There, I said it, and the world didn't fall apart.

No limit holdem one up