Since I started taking poker more seriously (a year and a half ago, give or take) I haven’t gone for more than a week or two without having a new eye-opening experience. You know, the kind that makes you go “ohhh, I get it!” Like when early on, I grasped the concept of equity. Or later, when I realized that just because a hand has enough equity to be played, it may often give implied odds, but not get them. I’ve had a fairly steady flow of these “aha!” moments in the past 20 months, but recently, when it comes to limit hold ‘em, I kinda feel stuck. Nothing new is coming up lately and I’m mostly just playing the same way I have for the past six weeks. I’m not an expert (although some people seem to give me credit for being one - which is flattering, but undeserved) and I’m well aware that I have a lot more to learn; I just don’t know where to look for it next.

I’m also playing more no-limit now again, largely because of how I feel stuck with limit. In NL, I have no problem learning new stuff, and there I pick up stuff on a daily basis. In many ways, NL is a more fun game because the structure of the betting allows me to play “fun” hands. Hands that hit monsters and win huge pots, like small pocket pairs and suited connectors. In limit, I’m often forced to muck these preflop, and the game is much more of a mediocre vs. mediocre competition in terms of hand strength.  With the blinds in limit worth fighting over, I often find myself at showdown with third pair, bad kicker - and picking up the pot. While it’s nice to win pots, it’s simply more fun - for me, anyway - to hit a hand like the nut flush and stack someone else off.

Anyway. The treshold. I’m not sure what to do about it. I’m doing a fair amount of studying, and I can feel like I’m on the brink of another revelation, but I’m not quite there yet. I’m thinking about going back and re-reading HPFAP; maybe I’ll pick up some nugget I’ve missed in the earlier readings. Any of you have any suggestions for me?