Do you one day envision yourself playing no-limit hold’em for a living? Or do you hope to turn your poker hobby into a lucrative side income? If you do, then you’re in the right place. In the coming pages we will arm you with the most important concepts and insights to make your dream a reality. We’ll show you how a pro crafts a strategy and then adjusts it to maintain an edge over the competition. And we won’t hold back.
But you have to be prepared for a challenge. Small stakes no-limit isn’t for wusses anymore. A few years ago, all you needed to win was a little common sense and some patience. The legions of weak players would practically beat themselves. These days the Internet is full of
smart, motivated players battling it out for $20 and $50 pots. You can beat them and enjoy the spoils (which can be more than enough to let you quit your job). But you’ll have to work, and you’ll probably have to change the way you play (and think) in some fundamental ways.
We’re not going to waste your time and money rehashing common sense advice you’ve heard a hundred times before. There’s no filler in this book. From the very beginning, we are going to attack your weaknesses. We want to find the places where you mess up. We want
to find the opportunities you miss. We want to find the decisions you think about the wrong way. And we want to help you fix them.
This book is example-driven. We teach many critical ideas through hand examples, most of which were taken from the authors’ actual play in small stakes games. We’ve selected hands that improve over the way a typical small stakes regular would play the hand. Some of
our plays should surprise you. If you finish this book having never once said to yourself, Wow, I would never have played the hand like that! then we haven’t done our jobs.
Chances are you won’t learn everything here the first time you read the book. It may take several readings before you’ll be able to incorporate most of the new ideas into your game. But if you’re serious about becoming an excellent no-limit player, the effort will be worth it.