Online Poker Micro-Stakes Cash Games
There seems to be an endless wave of new poker players coming into the game. Most people would think that these players are the typical fish of seven or eight years ago. Well, due to the boom in poker tournaments and the wide variety of poker books and instructional videos available to these players many of them are very knowledgeable even if they are playing online for the first time. Many of these players start out learning the game in Micro-Stakes poker tournaments and cash games. That is not to say that poker strategy is not used in these games but micro-stakes games do have a different feel to them than the standard games that most regular poker players are used to. Micro-Stakes games can be as small as Five and Ten cents blinds all the way up to $1 / $2 blinds. Usually players will be somewhere in between at Twenty-Five cents and Fifty cents blinds. This is the level we will be focused on as I discuss the micro limits. (more…)
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Your first decision when assessing the strength of your hand is whether to fold, call or raise. The next decision is how much to bet. This is very important as giving your opponent the right odds to call may mean they hit the card they need to improve and your incorrectly sized bet could cost you the pot. Let’s look at bet sizing and how you can use bet sizing to get tells from your opponent and also give off false tells of your own. 
All of us like to think we’re the Master Of The Universe on the table. We have the skills and the strategy to outplay our opponents. But, there are times when you’ll sit at a table and instantly realize that you’re the underdog. You’re a minnow in an ocean of sharks. When that happens, how do you survive? Should you lurk in the shadows and strike when the other players aren’t expecting it? Or, are you better off making them think you’re the player they’ve been afraid to confront. Here’s how to survive as the table underdog.