[GainerRakeback]

The upside to limit is that your downside is limited. In No-limit, one mistake or bad read and you get stacked. One mistake in limit means you still got money to play. It really depends what you're there for. I think limit is more recreational.

But the downside to limit, as others have said, is that you can never bet enough to push someone off a drawing hand. If it costs them only 2 bets more to see the river and make their flush or str8, they'll call every time. In NL, you can make it very expensive for them to see another card.

My poker playing started with playing $2/4 limit holdem in the real casino for about 9 months and overall I lost. It was very frustrating. Where I am, the older (mostly men) folks now use their retirement money to play Limit Hold'em instead of the slot machines, so they are there to gamble and not fold lousy hand after hand. They want action. And they count whether they got the str8 on their fingers > for real. Every hand gets played down to the river, so the best starting hand isn't usually the best ending hand. Pocket aces or kings have much less value. I then got the courage up to play $1/2 NL, got dealt pocket aces that day, had a winning session, and haven't looked back at the limit tables.

As a post-script, you may want to try Pot Limit Hold'em. It's kind of a blend of the two games. Generally the max raise can only be the size of the pot. Your downside is limited to a degree, but you can make pot sized bets which will push players off a draw.