In No Limit Hold 'em, you have the freedom to choose your bet size, and you have many more possible options overall. You can make much bigger value bets, you can make big bluffs and you can protect your hands better against any kind of draws. It is on you if you like these things or not.

Here is the question most player care about: Do I make more profit at Fixed Limit or No-Limit?

The answer isn't that hard. A good No-Limit player gets the same profit as a good Fixed Limit player with around the same financial risk. Here are some important tips if you want to change from Fixed to No-Limit:

- The bet sizes don't have a relation to the blinds, they have a relation to the size of the pot. With FL, you have small and big blind. In NL, it's all about the pot size. Mostly you use common bet sizes like 1/2, 2/3 pot or pot-sized bets.

- You can change the odds! At FL, you mostly can't protect yourself against draws. When your opponent has a strong draw (8 outs or more), he nearly always has the right odds to call. At NL, you are able to give your opponent bad odds and sometimes he'll make a mistake.

- Your stack size matters! At FL, the win and the loss have a fixed limit (max 12 big blinds). At NL, the loss and the win are only limited by your stack or the stack of your opponent. With a 20bb stack, you have to play differently than with a 100bb stack.

- It is all about position! Position is an important thing at FL, but at NL it is even more important. Position gives you many advantages. The most important advantage is pot control. It depends on your hand - sometimes you want to make the pot big or sometimes you want to keep it small.

- Implied odds are more important then pot odds! When you have incorrect odds to draw in FL, you can mostly fold. At NL it looks a bit different. When your pot odds are bad, you can sometimes still call because of the implied odds of getting more money from your opponent on 4th or 5th street.

- TPTK (top pair, top kicker) is not a hand with which you always want to go to the showdown! In FL, you mostly want to see the showdown with this kind of a hand. In NL, this hand mostly wins little pots or loses the big ones. The question is: Did my opponent risk his whole stack with a worse hand than top pair with top kicker? Mostly you can answer the question by yourself with NO.

- Betting gets more important on the following streets! As I said earlier, in NL the bet sizes have a relation to the pot size. The pot will grow bigger on the next street than at the start of the hand. A bad call on the flop costs around 5bb, but a bad call on the river can cost 35bb and more!

Be sure to keep all these differences in mind when you consider making the jump from Limit to No Limit.