Do you think playing Limit will help my NL game?

What do you guys reckon?

I have been considering playing Limit instead of No Limit to help me to:

A. Not lose as much money when I play bad, ie I have be prone to stacking off recently with TPTK with bad play.

B. Recognise how to play pot odds, draws etc correctly.

C. Get some confidence back and maybe learn some new skills.

D. Concentrate more on putting people on hands (although not specific to why i want to try limit, it is something I need to learn in general)

So your opinions on whether this is a good idea or a bad idea or any other feedback would be awesome!

My reflections:

I'm an average cash game NL player. Slighty better than average NL tourney player.

I do pretty good at limit cash games, but so-so at limit tourneys.

If you know you're running bad, take a break or step down a couple levels.

The limit games are so much looser than the NL games, it's like a completely different game.

I've only spent a bit of time playing limit games, but here's I think. Take it with as many grains of salt as you please:

Obviously, if you move to limit it's a lot more difficult to lose an entire buy-in on one hand. The flipside to this, of course, is that you won't be stacking someone else either if you flop a monster. So you'll lose more slowly, but you'll win more slowly too.

With regard to playing pot odds and draws... you might actually find some of the limit lessons about drawing counter-productive for your no-limit game. Pot odds in limit will very often encourage you to call and chase your draws, so you may find yourself chasing a lot more than would be sane in no-limit.

There's also the issue of putting people on hands - the general rule is that in limit, you play your hand, while in no-limit you play your opponent's. Putting your opponents on a range of hands is still important, but if you really want to develop that skill, a no-limit table will probably teach you more.

I tried limit a little and I hated it. It's a much more mechanical game and it's a lot more boring than NL IMO. You can't bluff, you can't get anyone else to fold since they are usually getting the right odds to draw.

yeah I think going from nl to limit wether it helps your game or not is so annoying....the action and intensness of nl just makes limit a yawn....i don't think I could ever get into limit ring games...but in tourneys eventually it becomes close to no-limit and pl def. does

i find playing in a limit game, u get a ton of chasers...and you might as well if you are not playing with big enough limits to push people out...so i think u actually need a hand more often in limit than no limit, i also find it much harder to bluff in limit.

I agree with most people that have posted that limit will not hone your no limit skills. They are different games with different skills.

Your talking about 2 different animals between Limit and No Limit. When you play Limit you and your opponents are both going to be more prone to Chase your drawing hands because you will almost always have odds to call it down. As result, playing hands like suited connectors and weak Aces are much more acceptable and you almost never throw away any Pocket Pair pre-flop because your implied Odds are huge.

Conversely, in No Limit, you and your opponent have the ability to put the Pot Odds directly against your opponents Hand Odds. You have to respect the amount of the bet in contrast to the number of outs you have.

In short; no switching to Limit will more than likely damage your No-Limit game. However, learning how to play Limit while continuing to expand on your No Limit Game would be understandable as long as you don't confuse the two.

NuRelic

Doyle Brunson describes Limit as being a much more mechanical game, whereas No Limit he calls the Cadillac of poker games...

it looser than NL holdem i think limit it a yawn