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Originally Posted by Kurn, son of Mogh
One of the biggest difference between LHE and NLHE happens OTR.
LHE on the river, you think your hand is good enough so you bet and get raised. Unless there has very little action the pot is now big enough that you should rarely fold. Let's say the pot is $100 in a 5/10 game. You bet $10 and get raised. Pot is now $130 and it's $10 to call. You're getting 13:1. Unless villain is the rock of friggin' Gibralter, you have have the best hand more than 7% of the time. Maybe not much more, but it's only a 1 big bet mistake if you're wrong. Folding the best hand is a 14 big bet mistake.
Now let's see NL. Pot is $100, you think you have a good chance of being good, so you bet $50. Villain raises to $200. Now you have to call $150 into $350. 7:3 odds. Now you have to be right 30% of the time to break even. Tougher decision.
Also in LHE, raising OTF as a semibluff is much more prevalent than in NL, since being reraised in that situation is an easy call in limit, a hard decision in NL.
Good point on river calls. Conversely then it makes sense to bluff much less often on rivers in limit than in NL since villain will be similarly incentivized to call. River bluffs rarely will succeed.