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Paprika · Full House Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 194

You get together with a bunch of friends, everyone seems to be an authority on NLHE. This is the only game they see on TV and they all think that it is such an easy game. Easy to learn perhaps but very difficult to become very good at IMO. Try and suggest a different game such as seven card stud, omaha8 or even limit HE and they shrug their shoulders and say "nah, this is real poker" etc. It is weird that NLHE is the only game that 95% (or more)of people know & play that I have run into. Obviously because of the exposure that it gets on TV through wsop, WPT, PPT and others. I love NLHE but I also love about 5 or 6 other games as well.

I recall first playing NLHE at a friends home tourney. I had no clue at all to what I was doing. I did very poorly but I was hooked nonetheless on poker. I started playing LHE, NLHE, then Stud hi, Stud hi lo, Omaha8 and Razz and I discovered that there was a lot more to playing than just No Limit. Then I ran into HORSE. Man, that was a kick. Try & explaining that one to your friends. I at times try and say to them," hey let's play a diff. game" and I get looks as though I am condescening. I say whatever, let's play NLHE then.

Bottom line, I feel that by learning a lot of different games, my NLHE game has vastly improved. It opens you up to thinking in different ways about the games.

Advice-Try some different games other than just NLHE and you will be surprised just how much it can improve your NLHE game. Plus you will be that much more informed about many other games and you may find that Stud Hi Lo has become your best game.

Flying_Kiwi · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject:

Yeah I get the same thing, though it used to always be my friends were stuck on 5 card draw and I tried to introduce them to NLHE... took a while and now they prefer it to 5 card. Now I try and get them to play HORSE and they're all like, no NLHE is real poker. Silly twits! I got them off 5 card onto NLHE and now they won't play anything else. I even tried once to get them to go back to 5 card just for a change. Sigh, no HORSE action around these parts.

UFO1947 · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject:

no NLHE is real poker

Why is it that line makes them sound like a fish more then anything?

lesdoodis · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject:

I like that you will never see a Robert Varkony win a Stud bracelet or HORSE championship. Well, at least I hope not. It also doesn't help that Matt Damon made it out to be the only game worth playing ("Cadillac of Poker"?), and lots got in after that. Don't get me wrong, I love NLHE and play it quite often, but you have to spread your game to be a POKER player, otherwise you are a NLHE player.

junkbutton · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject:

2 high flush · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:44 pm Post subject:

"but some like doyle brunson consider no limit the only pure game left"

i wonder if doyle actually thinks this or if its just a line a writer made up to sound good. im glad they played other games in the movie BTW

junkbutton · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:50 pm Post subject:

lesdoodis · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:00 pm Post subject:

I know who he was quoting, but nowadays it just isn't as profitable being just a NLHE. You can (a many do) make a hell of living, but I would consider them Pro POKER players. Poker has many different forms and NLHE is just one. Thats fine with me, I would rather keep them at the HE tables and let me fine tune my other games before they get there, cause they probably will.

guitarguy178 · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject:

Big Slick x13x · Forum Icon Joined: 18 Jun 2006 Posts: 4317 Location: ROK

Actually I got together with some friends and played some home HORSE tournaments. And a HU HORSE match. It was a lot of fun. It's such a different game playing it live, rather then online.

Paprika · Full House Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 194

NLHE-I have a few of my friends that only play NLHE when we get together and because some of them are aggressive, they can do pretty well at times. It truly is the short run of things like a tournament. We have all seen that on the TV coverage; some guy just being a LAG gets really far into a tournament. If they get cards and catch well it can happen. Makes people think that they are really good players. Some are some aren't IMO. It is possible to be a good NLHE player and suck at any other game though. I wonder just how many of the new breed of younger players getting exposure through the wsop HE events and doing well, maybe even winning a braclet, would fare in any other poker game besides NLHE. Obviously it is the most popular poker game going right now. Is it true that in NLHE that one can get by on instincts and can skate around the mathematical aspects of the game, or even the opposite perhaps? Seems the truly great ones though have both.

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