Do you ever see yourself playing no-limit hold’em for a living? Or do you want to turn your poker pastime into a profitable side hustle? If you answered yes, you’ve come to the correct place.
In the following pages, we will provide you with the most significant principles and insights for making your goal a reality. We’ll show you how a professional develops a strategy and then tweaks it to keep an advantage over the competition. And we will not hold back.
But you must be prepared for a challenge. Small stakes no-limit poker is no longer reserved for the faint of heart. A few years ago, winning required only a little common sense and patience.
The hordes of inferior players would essentially defeat themselves. These days, the Internet is filled with smart, motivated players competing for $20 and $50 pots. You can defeat them and reap the benefits (which could be enough to allow you to quit your work).
However, you will have to work hard and, most likely, modify the way you play (and think) in fundamental ways.
We are not going to waste your time and money by repeating common sense advice you have heard a hundred times before. There is no filler in this guide. We’ll start by attacking your weaknesses.
We want to find out where you made mistakes. We want to identify the possibilities you missed. We want to identify the decisions you make incorrectly. And we’d want to help you fix them.
This guide relies heavily on examples. We teach several essential topics via hand examples, the majority of which are drawn from real play in modest stakes games.
We chose hands that outperform the way a typical modest stakes regular would play the hand. Some of our plays will surprise you. If you complete this guide without thinking, “Wow, I would never have played the hand like that!” then we have not done our jobs.
It is unlikely that you will learn everything in this guide the first time you read it. It may take a few readings before you can implement the majority of the new concepts into your game.
But if you’re serious about becoming a top no-limit player, the effort will be worthwhile.
Part 1: Framework
Showdown Equity And Steal Equity
Using Equities To Make Decisions
What Makes Stealing Likely To Succeed
Part 2: Beating Online $1-$2 6-Max Games
The next section delves into a very specific topic: how to win an online $1-$2 6-max no-limit game. Why did we choose to focus on this game? In reality, why did we choose to focus so narrowly on a single game? And, if you want to play something other than online $1-$2 6-max, how effective will this tutorial be?
Here are brief responses to those inquiries. This game is a great way to explain the most fundamental no-limit ideas. If you can master an online $1-$2 6-max no-limit game, you will easily outperform 99 percent of all no-limit games in the world.
As a result, this guide is incredibly valuable to the vast majority of no-limit players, whether they play live or online, in shorthanded, full-ring, or heads-up modes. Learn these fundamentals and apply them to your game, and you will outperform the opposition. And now for a slightly longer response.
The Threshold For Professional Play
We want you to play poker at a professional level. That’s our goal. Online $1-$2 6-max is a significant obstacle for professional players. Nice $1-$2 pros make a good living, making $10,000 or more per month even with a fairly flexible playing schedule. So, when we show you how to win an online $1-$2 6-max game, you’ll have learnt how to play professionally.
If you enjoy performing live, you’re in for a treat. Putting someone who can beat an online $1-$2 6-max game in a typical $1-$2 or $2-$5 live game is like to putting a professional football player in a game with 14-year-olds. The pro will go utterly crazy.
This guide teaches an aggressive strategy. If you play online, you will face a large number of players that have seen this technique before and are prepared to fight back. However, when you play live, many of the other players at the table will be unsure how to defend themselves against you. You can pick them apart. Anyone who can make a fortune playing online $1-$2 6-max can make money playing $2-$5 or $5-$10 live no-limit.
Developing A Robust Strategy
You can win simple no-limit games using a minimal strategy. Nut peddling, for example, beats most low-stakes live games and several online microlimit games. It’s easy. Simply play tight preflop, wait for the flop, and then put your money down. Don’t bluff too much, and don’t worry about what your opponents have. Count on your hand strength to provide you a long-term advantage.
Limited methods will work at lower levels but not at higher levels. Good players can defeat nut peddlers by refusing to pay out their winning hands and collecting the majority of the remaining pots.
Limited approaches, such as nut peddling, do not work well at an internet $1.
$2 6-max. If you want to acquire a significant advantage, you must adopt a more complete strategy. To get value, you must bluff and play your hands. You must read hands. You must adapt to your opponents. You must abuse individuals while avoiding exploitation.
This guide describes a more robust strategy. The current online $1-$2 6-max game is arguably the smallest, with most opponents playing well enough to require advanced strategy to win. So that’s the game we chose.
Applying Our Lessons To Your Game
After reading this guide, some of you will get right into the online
The majority of our samples feature the $1-$2 6-max game. And some of you will choose another game. You may play with a lower or higher limit. Consider playing a nine- or ten-handed game. Alternatively, you might play a loose live game in which six players limp in each hand.
Many of the concepts discussed in this section will apply to your no-limit game, even if it looks to differ significantly from the one we describe. Leveraging position, running bluffs, playing for value, and identifying bad players are all fundamental techniques that can be utilized successfully in practically any no-limit game on the world. Indeed, we choose this game because it is great for teaching practical no-limit concepts that can be applied to a variety of games.
Get Ready To Rock
This section will show you how to beat an online $1-$2 no-limit 6-max game. It may take some time to implement all of these strategies correctly in your game, but once you do, you will be a formidable opponent. Let’s start.
Stealing Blinds And Playing Position
Profiling Opponents Using Stats
Going For Value With Good Hands
Betting Light and the 3-Bet, 4-Bet, 5-Bet Game
Part 3: 7 Easy Steps to No-Limit Hold’Em Success
Step 2: Don’t Play Out Of Position
Step 3: Don’t Overcommit In Small Pots
Step 4: Big Pots For Big Hands
Step 6: Adjust To Your Opponents
Step 7: Keep Your Head In The Game
You’ve completed all 7 Easy Steps to No-Limit Hold’em Success. Steps 1 and 2 will keep you out of the problems that many players find themselves in. Sticking to solid hands and refusing to play out of position will give you an advantage in every hand.
Steps 3 and 4 teach you the principles of postflop play. Avoid significant fights with little hands, but use huge hands to construct big pots.
Step 5 explains the basics of bluffing and encourages you to try, because you won’t learn to do it properly if you don’t have the courage to try.
Step 6 emphasizes the significance of adjusting to your opponents. After all, you profit not from your brilliance, but from their errors. You’ll make a lot more money if you adjust your strategy to capitalize on their mistakes.
Step 7 addresses some of the mental demons that plague almost every no-limit player. We’ve been taught that losing is something to be ashamed of, yet in poker, this couldn’t be more incorrect. You can’t win poker without losing.
Your ego belongs outside the equation. Learn to love taking calculated risks and accept the sometimes unlucky outcomes with aplomb. If you consider each session as a learning opportunity, you will succeed every day unless you allow your ego to get in the way.
Now go out and dominate the local $1-$2 game. They will never know what hit them.
Part 4: Beyond $1-$2
This section contains slightly more advanced material for players who want to take their games to the next level. Some of the concepts are difficult to grasp and will require you to use your critical thinking skills. However, if you want to advance beyond $1-$2 and eventually play at bigger levels, this section will be quite useful.
