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No Limit Hold'em - Beating the Micro Stakes: Crushing Micro Stakes & Small Stakes Poker
This is the definitive book for beating micro stakes No Limit Hold'em. The only one of its kind, this book teaches the player specific strategies required for beating the small stakes and the lowest micro stakes games. Whether you play micro stakes No Limit Hold'em online or small stakes games live, this book will give you everything you need to succeed. Understanding the psyche of a typical micro stakes player is critical to understanding how to beat him. This book covers topics such micro stakes-specific starting hands, player types, playing styles, micro stakes-specific betting strategies, board reading at the micro stakes levels, and much, much more. Numerous actual hand histories demonstrate real game play along with commentary on why hands played out the way they did. The final chapter of the book even includes a quiz to test the knowledge that you've learned from the book. It includes answers along with detailed explanations. Once you've mastered this quiz, you should be ready to hit the tables! If you want to beat the lowest level micro stakes games and small stakes games and actually turn a profit, you need this book. Be sure to check out the complementary information at www.crushthemicros.com.
168 pages, Paperback
First published February 3, 2010
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April 27, 2012
Thomas Mitchell, Beating the Micro-Stakes: Crushing Micro-Stakes and Small Stakes Poker (CreateSpace, 2010)
There are a lot of poker books on the market, but few of them deal with small stakes poker. And let's face it, most of the players out there—especially since Black Friday, when most of the medium- and high-stakes games were driven out of America—are playing at the small and micro-stakes Mitchell is writing about. (Yes, it IS still possible to play online poker in America, but that is neither here nor there.) The strategy is often the same, and Mitchell is doing nothing new here in advocating a tight-aggressive game, though the aggression Mitchell is talking about would be unheard-of at higher stakes (when was the last time you saw someone overbet the pot on High Stakes Poker?). What is different here is Mitchell's continued emphasis that you're playing with fish, and that while your game isn't necessarily going to change because of this (with one exception: never, ever try to bluff someone who's guaranteed to call you down with middle pair and a bad kicker), it's definitely going to change the way you approach the game mentally, since the number of suckouts you will face per hour is bound to be a great deal higher playing $0.02/$0.04 than it is when you're playing $5/10. That counsel alone is worth the price of admission here; the rest is basic poker strategy, and while you've probably already read it, I'm not sure an aspiring student of the game who hasn't reached the pro level yet should ever say no to a refresher course. ***
There are a lot of poker books on the market, but few of them deal with small stakes poker. And let's face it, most of the players out there—especially since Black Friday, when most of the medium- and high-stakes games were driven out of America—are playing at the small and micro-stakes Mitchell is writing about. (Yes, it IS still possible to play online poker in America, but that is neither here nor there.) The strategy is often the same, and Mitchell is doing nothing new here in advocating a tight-aggressive game, though the aggression Mitchell is talking about would be unheard-of at higher stakes (when was the last time you saw someone overbet the pot on High Stakes Poker?). What is different here is Mitchell's continued emphasis that you're playing with fish, and that while your game isn't necessarily going to change because of this (with one exception: never, ever try to bluff someone who's guaranteed to call you down with middle pair and a bad kicker), it's definitely going to change the way you approach the game mentally, since the number of suckouts you will face per hour is bound to be a great deal higher playing $0.02/$0.04 than it is when you're playing $5/10. That counsel alone is worth the price of admission here; the rest is basic poker strategy, and while you've probably already read it, I'm not sure an aspiring student of the game who hasn't reached the pro level yet should ever say no to a refresher course. ***
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