How does limit functionality work ?

Hi,

I have a table set up for my clubs fixtures and in the sidebar I only want to display the next 5 fixtures from today. When I add the following code

[wctable id="3" limit="5" filter="Date>='time()'"]

it displays all fixtures but paginated in rows of 5.

How do I get it to work like a sql statement where it will limit the returned rows to 5 ?

thanks

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