Move up from 2/4 LIMIT. When and Where?

First post of this forum.

I've been playing 2/4 limit for about 2 years now. I usually buy in for about $100 and I'm consistently up after 3-5 hours hours of play. In vegas where I can straddle I usually shake this around enough to swing the pots and make bigger profits..maybe 2-3 times buy-in on a good day.

I sometimes split even but as long as I stick in there...I can usually make it work.

I can be quite frustrating...as it was at Borgata (first time in New Jersey and no STRADDLE!) yesterday.

I was down to 30 bucks or so after being rivered twice...but I stuck in there for 5 hours and slowly moved my way up to a profit.

Would I benefit from taking off the training wheels and move up to a no limit game or a higher limit game?

Any advice on how to take that jump is appreciated.

Cheers,

Vers

Limit and no limit are fairly different in lots of ways although it is still hold'em. You'd have to relearn a lot of things, bet sizing obviously being one of them. In no limit most of your winrate will come from how well you betsize, imo it's the second most important skill after hand reading, and in limit you don't use it at all.

I have no experience with limit so can't help with moving up or not.

Thanks for the input. I'm familiar with basic no limit 0.1/0.25 games I play every week but never played at the casinos. It's just, the 2/4 limit game really feels like a donkey game. I'm hard pressed finding something that low stake in vegas on the weekends. Usually they always recommend 1/2 no limit as their entry level game.

Well yea, because that's the lowest that the majority of casinos will spread, and, as a beginner(to NL), that is where you should start. The biggest difference with NL is going to be that you are not going to be drawing as much because you won't have the proper odds most of the time like you will in limit. At the same time, this works to your advantage in that you can much easier push opponents out of pots by betting more than one BB.

live limit hold em sounds like potentially the most boring activity i can think of

vanquish said:

live limit hold em sounds like potentially the most boring activity i can think of

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The only thing more boring is playing it against yourself.