Limit vs. No-Limit

The last one-hour level of the night begins, and with it the last 30 minutes of no-limit hold'em. Some players -- especially a few of the shorter-stacks -- welcome one last shot at no-limit before play concludes as an opportunity to build back up quickly before night's end.

Indeed, a few minutes before the last level concluded, Jeffrey King, looking down at his below-average stack of 12,000, was heard to say "I would like no-limit right now." A tablemate nodded in agreement, and joked that it had crossed his mind to play the last hands of the level more slowly so as to get to NL without having to play as many limit hands. There was a lengthy debate at another table earlier this evening when a short-stacked player did, in fact, play slowly at the end of a limit round so as to avoid having to pay the bigger blinds.

It has been interesting all day to hear players discussing their relative preference for limit or no-limit. By far, it seems, the greater percentage of our players prefer and are more comfortable with no-limit than limit.