Limit poker mentally challenges you. How much you can raise or bet is dependent on a fixed limit. For each of the betting rounds, where there usually is a minimum and maximum for the different rounds of bets, the bets are either fixed-sized or there is a spread limit.

Limit or structured poker contrary to popular belief contains little bluffing. Most of the hands are played straightforward. Limit poker is about making a lot of correct decisions over time, whereas no-limit poker is more about manipulating pressure at the opportune times to win the big pots.

Playing limit poker with small blinds relative to the stack sizes for some period of time will accomplish very little except to ensure that nobody can go broke for a few hours. It will do nothing to increase the skill factor. Playing limit poker, especially low limit poker, is pretty much ABC poker with a touch of selective aggression for short handed play.

In limit poker you are shooting at a target. It is a dysfunctional marriage of a game theorist and a math expert. They live in a home that looks like any other home in the poker neighborhood and, on the outside, they seem like a happy couple. It is more of a science, but no-limit is an art.

A thorough understanding of no-limit poker is recommended, before partaking in the learning the more advanced strategies, which is where limit is different. Limit poker is not necessarily any less of a game because of this, no-limit just has a more varied number of strategies to choose from. As the pots have "no-limit" poker professionals can win large amounts by gambling on all-in. Novices are more likely to take up limit poker as they are more likely not to lose as much as in no-limit

The finest poker players in both game types share common strengths. In both limit and no-limit poker assertiveness and patience are fundamental. Timing when to attack is required to triumph.