Product Description
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 & 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.
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No Limit Hold’em – Beating the Micro Stakes
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#1 by Steven Kroitzsh on May 10, 2010 - 10:40 am
It is nice to see a book dedicated to Micro Stakes. There is not a lot Micro stuff out there and micros need to be played different than higher stakes poker. You will find idea’s specific to micro stakes. I like the hand analysis. The author describes how he plays specific hands why. If you follow the advice in this book you will at save a lot of chips and only put your chips at risk in favorable situations. It’s an easy, fast and interesting read.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by U.S. Citizen on May 10, 2010 - 11:06 am
this is a fantastic book. all the other no limit books are for big book and tournament poker. the best part was the inflated bet strategy. At microlimits, no one thinks about small bets so you can increase your profits substantially by increasing your raising limits and bets.
a great contribution and it also has good ideas that can be used at any level in my opinion.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Darlene on May 10, 2010 - 1:31 pm
I bought this book last week or so and I’m happy with my purchase. I play lots of micro stakes at PokerStars and the strategies that Mr. Mitchell talks about in this book do actually work.
Although I’m now beating NL5 for about 7 big blinds per 100 hands played (7bb/100) using this book’s strategies, a more aggressive style could probably win more but in the author’s defense, he does mention that this is more or less a strategy to help the losing player start winning. The book delivers on this promise.
Overall, two thumbs up.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by L337 NUB on May 10, 2010 - 4:05 pm
Well I must lead off by saying the book was alright, such as it was and what there is of it. Not much on theory whatsoever, except those concepts borrowed from Sklansky’s works. Most of the book was merely hand histories that only scarcely made any kind of point. The advice he does offer however is decent, if a bit nitty in spots. I personally believe this strategy could make you a modest winner in the micros, though as another reviewer commented a somewhat more aggressive approach should yield better results.
My main problem with the book is his absurd belief that micro-stakes players “have the goods” when they bet. I very rarely find that to be the case. Often they are shoving Ace-High, rainbow flops such as A49 with KK (pocket Kings).
That point is a major premise of his strategy. Another problem is that he seems to advocate at one point folding top two pair when an opponent moves in during a BvB confrontation because there are straight and flush draws possible. He appears to be suggesting you FOLD top two pair ( a decent, if mildly marginal, holding) just in case your adversary draws out somehow. That is ridiculous of course.
All told, this may work for a nub looking to take some kind of foothold in the micros, but an experienced player would be taking somewhat the worst of it and short-changing himself using this nitty strategy.
Rating: 2 / 5
#5 by shaihulud on May 10, 2010 - 5:55 pm
I decided to write this review because the glowing 5-star reviews written here are way off base. I suspect their writers are either friends of the author or have not read any other poker books and have nothing to compare this one to. I was tempted to give this book a 1-star rating for balance, but in all fairness it deserves something like 1 3/4.
Anyway. I bought this book because I was bankrolled only for microstakes and the books I had read did not seem to apply at this level.
I was pretty disappointed with the book. First of all it’s really more like a pamphlet than a book–at 167 pages it seems solid but the writing is huge. This book is at least twice as short as most poker books (all the ones I’ve seen anyway, and I’ve read at least ten). So what was I hoping to get out of this book? I wanted to learn to beat NL10 and NL25. I buy the book and find out the strategies are for NL2 and NL5, the author’s “specialties.” He says you can apply them to NL10 but I have tried to no avail.
The actual strategy taught is very, very basic, and can be summarized completely in about 10 pages. The rest of the book is filler. The book certainly doesn’t teach you how to “crush” any stakes, so the title is a bit of a misnomer. You can beat NL2 and NL5 for a few bb/100 and break even at NL10 with these strategies, which isn’t much of an accomplishment at these stakes.
Who is Thomas Mitchell anyway, and why is he qualified to write a book on poker? Glad you asked! Mr. Mitchell provides a graph showing he’s a winning player–over 77,000 hands, he’s made $225. If that doesn’t qualify you to write a book I don’t know what does.
Bottom line, will this book help you? Maybe…if you’re terrible and want to beat NL2 for 5 bb/100. Otherwise, not so much.
Rating: 2 / 5