Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The bloom is off the Limit rose

Playing limit poker is not working out the way I'd hoped, so I'm going to return to playing MTT NLHEs exclusively. Here are the reasons why limit tournaments are not for me:

- they attract fewer players, so the prize pools are smaller

- they require you to outlast a bigger percentage of the field in order to make the money

- sometimes their min cash payouts don't cover the buy in and entry fee

- their late registration periods are too long, making for higher variance 

- the caliber of player in limit tournaments is higher than it is in MTT NLHEs

- I'm simply not as good at limit poker as I am at no limit

Limit poker was fun while it lasted, but I'm over it now.

style flavor    buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE       44000   6000       9     307   81   150        0
MTT   L27Lo      22000   3000       6      65   12     0        0
MTT   NLHE       44000   6000       9     309   81    69    81000
MTT   Stud HiLo  22000   3000       8      78   16     0        0

delta: $-69,000
2025 balance: $-991,000
2025 blue distance: $991,000
balance: $15,306,303
MTT NLHE ITM pct: 41.52 (1286 of 3097)

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