wjh, this guide should also help you out until you get comfortable playing NL. Also, I think this page pretty much kicks ass in genral btw. Nice work Excession

http://www.andymcnish.btinternet.co.uk/ ... lrules.htm

Notice how helpful these guys are. I know a couple of sites that a first-time poster who asks a question like this would be a blackened, carbon deposit after the flames. Neat guys here.

Many of us have done the same thing. I started playing NL just a month or so ago, after being pretty darn successful at limit. Go back a few pages and you'll find lots of really dumbass questions from me, and lots of smart answers from them. Read and read and read, then play low stakes, and read some more. In time, it will start to make sense. If you're like me, maybe a long time, but it will, nevertheless.

Good luck, and Welcome to BTP!

CJ

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Excession did a nice write up. One very important point that is more improtant in NL than limit is if you bet the flop with a good size amount and get called then tread very carefully.

Ask yourself just why you were called? Any draws - no then back off or slow down. Yes, humm they called a pot size bet on a draw. Made hand or a fish. Watch out.

If the board is scary and you get called then worry unless you have close to the nuts.

This is just my limited experience with losing with good hands that were second best.

Hand #1

I had in an unraised pot. I flopped top pair top kicker and I bet the pot. I got called by - guess how I saw his hand?

Turn no help it goes, check, check, River no help and he makes a 1/3 pot bet and I make a call.

Hand #2

I had MP and first in - I raise $7 and get one caller. Flop is . I bet the pot and get called. Turn - it goes check, check. River I check and he bet 1/4 pot and I (like a fish) call - he has - the bet was small enough that I called to see his hand.

I give up for the day - back to the books.

I have found out that if I do not win the hand on the flop I lose more than 50% of the time I am called - with AA, KK or whatever - after the flop I need top 2 pair or better to feel comfortable with the hand - I had A7 and the flop was 775 he had 55.