My 5 biggest downswings are...

[LA_Price]

I play all games and here's my standard deviation from all of them in order of greatest to least

Limit Holdem 15-30 565 $/Hr
Pot limit Omaha 2/4 290 $/Hr
PLO hi/lo 1/2 255 $/Hr
Limit 7Stud 10-20 207 $/Hr
Limit stud/8 10-20 174 $/Hr
Limit Omaha hi/Lo 10/20 141 $/Hr
NL Hold'em 2/4 128 $/Hr

I play razz as well but don't have enough of a samlple size to say where it lies among the others. I'm an over 1/BB hour winner at all limit games and 10BB/100 at all NL and pot limit games.

Basically limit holdem is the swingiest game around. More money goes into the pot early than in any other game. But it's also one of the most profitable games around because of this. My advice is to diversify your risk and learn to play more than just limit hold'em. Losing 300BB can have a drastic effect on the quality of your game. If you also learn something that will book you steady wins with less variance it will make your limit hold'em game that much better.

Good luck,
LA_Price

[naphand]

From these figures it looks like PLO is the swingiest game around, with the highest SD in terms of BB.

[kiddo]

Not if u make 10BB/hour

[LA_Price]

yes PLO is up there as well which is why it's such a profitable game. It's quite common in that game to see monstrous amounts of money going in when someone has AAxx and other people have position and good hands like 9TJQ double suited. Basically you're usually not more than a 2:1 favorite, so their calls are correct if they play well pst flop.

A natural thing for someone who plays limit hold'em is to learn NL holdem. I think the game you should learn would depend on the region you live in. Steve Zotolow has a good article on cardplayer about learning different games and it's also in super system 2.

[kiddo]

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If you also learn something that will book you steady wins with less variance it will make your limit hold'em game that much better.

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Thanks, this is a very good advice for me. Last weeks I started to look at NL a little bit more serious. Problems are that in most NL$100 ($1/2) I have found there are so many bad players and then u have the same problem as when u paly bad players in limit, u cant do anything tricky because they dont understand and u cant pretend they are thinking at a higher level, making the game pretty boring and I dont learn fast enough.

Where can I play against decent players for decent money? Should I start with smaller buyin in bigger games 2 meet better guys or are there any site? I have played at Victor Chander (bad players) and Party Poker (bad players), I also played a little at UB, and they seemed more decent. Or do u think there is any faster way learning then playing decent players. (I have Ciaffone and Cloutiers books and yes, Ciaffones is better... read brunson 2, but his style is pretty impossible against people calling half their stack with toppair, bad kicker)