I know, there’s nothing to be gleaned from 158 hands of really unprofitable limit hold ’em, but damn it, as soon as I lost 20BB tonight at 1/2, I tossed Lee Jones off to the side, sashayed on over to the NL tables, and made 20BB. Too bad it was the $25 NL table.

At any rate, maybe I suck at limit, but when you’re seeing the flop only 16% of the time and your big pairs get smacked around by flushes and flopped straights, it drives you crazy. By contrast, some fishy NL wannabes called several of my big bets preflop and got crushed. And I wasn’t even playing that well. Long live NL!

Maybe careful study of Small Stakes Hold ‘EM (which should arrive Monday) will yield me some better results, but I really don’t know. As I said before, I was pounding the tables at Paradise, which means one of several things: I was having a good run at Paradise, I can only beat the kinds of players who inhabit Paradise, or I’ve been having a bad run at Party.

At any rate, I hope the limit tables at the Monte Carlo are a whole lot like Paradise Poker.