People play NL because of the thrill of being able to throw all your chips in the pot on a bluff(well....that and TV ) I really thank Sam Farha for a lot of the money I've made this year and last...lol

I personally switched to NL because I was haivng a very bad run on limit. I started playing limit at first...read Lee Jones and Skalansky and all that..but still couldn't win.

As it turn outs...I'm just not a good limit player, but that doesn't bother me too much.

In NL I can make bets which distort the pot so bad that no draw should ever call. I can identify hands by certain betting patterns, and I can get an opponents stack with a small set. It's these types of things that make the NL game so profitable for me.

In limit, I get so sick of the outdraws on the river....get angry because they call anything and I can't put them on a hand...etc. etc. etc.

Limit is def. a profitable game with it's own learning curve and idosyncrcies. Frankly though, I'm not hopping on that bus again. It's just not what I'm used to anymore and I hate it.

But good luck to you on your quest!! If you ever get up to a high limit...I highly suggest reading Roy Cooke's articles...they are brillant.

On another forum which Flafishy and I are on, there's a good thread going about how to play LAGs. The implied collusion is what will get you. When there are 7 or 8 playing every hand, one of them is going to catch. For some reason, they seem to be playing NL more than limit, these days. Dunno why. The idiots lose a LOT more money, but that's where they are. I'm with Stryker. When they catch, it doesn't cost me so much. But when the miss, and they miss way more often than they catch, and there are a LOT fewer playing to the river on limit these days than NL, they rarely ever have the right pot odds, and I punish them for their stupidity. And I mean PUNISH them.

I wish I had the BR to do likewise in PL, but the swings just kill me.