The first step most of us take on our journey to become a winning poker player happens in the micro-stakes online poker games. The micro-stakes are basically any poker game where the buy-in is $10 or less. This is where you will learn to hone the basic strategies and concepts of poker, pitting yourself against weak players who make many mistakes.

However, these weak players present their own set of problems, and require a number of strategic changes that must be made. This is why it’s important that if you are still participating in micro-stakes online poker games you join an online poker training site that has content suited to the unique aspects of these games. Watching a $25/$50 NLHE video where the instructor is focusing on dealing with a tight/aggressive regular isn’t going to do you much good in a $.05/$.10 NLHE game!

The following list is our choices for the best micro-stakes online poker training sites.

#1 Micro-Stakes Poker Training Site – Deuces Cracked

DeucesCracked (www.deucescracked.com) is an all-around poker training site that can literally take you from the micro-stakes to high-stakes games. The Deuces Cracked instruction team does an excellent job of balancing their content to include a good deal of micro-stakes poker training, as well as concepts that will help you learn the game the right way away from the poker tables.

With over 700 Micro and small stakes poker training videos, Deuces Cracked has a ton of content for small-stakes poker players. A number of Deuces Cracked instructors create their micro-stakes content including Entity, JoeTall, BalugaWhale, linkwood, chipchucker5, soundedsimple and threads13.

#2 Micro-Stakes Poker Training Site – Grinder School

GrinderSchool not only produces micro-stakes content, they specialize in it! The site is designed for small-stakes and micro-stakes grinders and the vast majority of their video content is designed for these two groups of poker players.

Some of the instructors you’ll find producing micro-stakes content on GrinderSchool are Micro2Macro, Collosos and MrPadawan. GrinderSchool is one of the few online poker training sites that produces content at stakes as low as $.01/$.02, and although their video library includes high-stakes games as well ,the overwhelming majority of content on the site falls between the penny limits and low-limit games.

#3 Micro-Stakes Poker Training Site – Cardrunners

Cardrunners, (www.cardrunners.com) has the largest video library of any online poker training site, so it should come as no surprise that the site offers a good amount of micro-stakes poker training videos. Cardrunners not only focuses on the games at these levels, but also creates video training and articles to help you avoid the pitfalls that many new and inexperienced poker players make.

A number of Cardrunners instructors take pride in creating the low-limit and micro-stakes content on the site, as well as creating leakfinder videos to help these players get off on the right foot in their poker careers. Some of the micro-stakes instructors at Cardrunners include Kush, Verneer, and RonFar3.

Why you should choose a micro-stakes poker training site

In the opening I touched on the differences between micro-stakes games and other, higher, stakes games. It’s important to understand the different dynamics at play at the micro-stakes poker tables where virtually every hand goes to showdown and three or more people are playing to the river! In these games trying to implement an aggressive style of play filled with game theory and meta-game thinking is counterproductive; the only thing that wins in the micro-stakes games is solid fundamental poker.

The sites we’ve listed above do an excellent job of demonstrating micro-stakes games and the adjustments that need to be made. As you progress in your poker training you’ll also find that these sites grow with you, and the higher stakes videos contain more advanced concepts, and a higher emphasis is put on playing the man and not your cards.

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