How To EXPLOIT Micro Stakes Poker Players With Alex Fitzgerald!

[@PokerCoaching]

What would you say is the best exploit to use against micro stakes players?

[@supremeleaderarmy9164]

I'm 1 minute into video and haven't watched. I just play linear and very few bluffs. I'm definitely up but interested in to see how many mistakes I can correct....

[@supremeleaderarmy9164]

Adjust tho to better players. Bet hard into calling stations with good hands.

[@supremeleaderarmy9164]

42:18 Thank u!

[@alanhop878]

Find spots to get thin value against opponents who are calling with too many hands.

[@G0DofRock]

Raising donks with strong hands, and 1x pot raising vs minbet donks.

[@riveradam]

8:34 "If you're listening to the sound of my voice and watching this video right now, you are much more hardcore than you realize" What a confidence boost. Thanks!

[@gamefreaker321]

He isn’t wrong. Listening to these videos and learning these strategies will put you ahead of every single player that doesn’t know them.

[@callmeippo]

YES SIR!!!

[@patriotforgod8032]

Sir. Yes sir! 😂

[@TheHigh-endCultivator]

This video is the BEST 2 hours on how to destroy micro stakes. SO much value. I love Alex Fitzgerald and his approach. One day brother, I will have you as a coach!!

[@TheHigh-endCultivator]

On my second viewing and will be watching it over and over until its burned in. LMAO

[@PokerCoaching]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@poppabigmac]

Holy dam, I have never gotten so much slaps across the face ... I was doing many of the mistakes mentioned in this video. I finished it today and implemented what I learned and instead of a slightly positive or negative day, I ended the day 540 Big Blinds in the positive!!! This helped fix MAJOR leaks in my post flop game(where I bled most of my money). Thank you so much!!!

[@FLAWLESS_VIZION]

Sweet!!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@jeffshackleford3152]

How has your leak plugging been going?

[@G0DofRock]

One of the best videos I've seen around lately. Love your coaches.

[@bastianp5031]

Great video! I love the straightforward coaching style of Alex. I didn't plan to watch the whole thing in one sitting but couldn't stop

[@taylor1310]

I have been playing for a month and studying and it makes me happy to see that I’m already applying some of the information in here :)

[@taylor1310]

Update: watching this video for the fourth or fifth time. I’m my own drill sergeant at this point lol

[@chessbrahh2068]

I just got back into poker fairly recently, and this is the most helpful video I have found online so far. there isn't much time wasted on things that are too obvious. i also like that it is specifically about low stakes

[@lale4tw656]

I learned so much. We need more videos like this !

[@yageroi]

Thanks!

[@quinnrayeward]

Freaking love Alex’s matter of fact attitude and way of speaking. Hilarious and SUUUPER helpful. Want to def see more of him!

[@gagfails4985]

What can I say I've watched thousands of videos on black rain 79 and Jonathon little , your analysis is amazing,

[@Snikersano]

I should be watching this video over and over before every session, great one!

[@OtherwiseInevitable]

Watched this in 2-3 sessions with lots of notes. Thanks for the pat on the back around 1:39:00. Needed a little morale boost! AWESOME stuff!

[@taylorhirschmusic]

Loved this video - thanks so much for the content you all put out.

[@David-rf6bk]

Excellent training video. Your recommendations make great sense and really has opened up my eyes to many of my leaks.

[@PokerCoaching]

I'm glad you're finding those leaks and getting better, David!

[@РенатРавилич]

This lesson is awesome and the way of teaching is so straight and clear, leaves no doubt that it worth looking👍 Thx so much!

[@SysFader]

Watched in its entirety. Just wanted to say thank you. Love your insight and methods.

[@PokerCoaching]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jeffshackleford3152]

​@@PokerCoachingDo you have a cash game version of this video? If not that might be a good one to do

[@PO-Dunk_din]

I've watched this 3 or 4 times now and may not seem significant to most but I was wondering how many micro or low stakes tourneys u busted out while creating this content. Also thanks again for taking the time to make this

[@Neverhadalike]

Stuck with this video and it’s actually really helpful

[@micarobles3248]

Loved it coach,great stuff. Keep the content coming,Thank you very much

[@blu3tan]

great video, awesome coaching, sub well deserved

[@PokerCoaching]

Thanks for the sub!

[@Seshlehem]

20 minutes in and learnt so much.

[@kaho4044]

1:33:15, raise flop. Small bet super weak and you gotta raise paired flop alot.

[@marcosbarcala6249]

yeah I though the same but what worse hands call?

[@brettmorton6513]

Awesome! Question, Is there any type of hand range guideline for the first part, limp/all in shove? Would you do this with worse then Q/J ?? TY!

[@PokerCoaching]

We have GTO charts at PokerCoaching.com

[@codyharris589]

That comment on wanting to learn, well i threw my shoulder out giving myself 3 pats on the back lol😂….

[@Goggarin1991]

Lol, this is probably the first time ever, that i have been congratulated on watching a whole video. :D

[@dankcharnley]

1:19:00 - What if Ah is turn instead? Do we call there?

[@kesetokaiba]

I'd probably still fold. Loose-passive types getting active all of a sudden should be alarm bells and if we are behind with 4 to the flush, we still have less than 1/4 chance of hitting the flush (less than 1/4 because yes 4 suits but some of them are on the board or in our hand so there are still less out there). We should fold with still very little chance of improving when we are almost certainly beat right now to this player type.

[@PO-Dunk_din]

Thank u for this video. It really helped my gain perspective. I needed this so again Thanks

[@RecoveredRidleyTruther]

I noticed you didnt mention "ranges" at all, or very little if you ddi and missed it... is there a reasob you weren't trying to put the villains on their positional ranges?.... p s., much appreciate this video great help and teachings

[@killerdog1257]

I F****** Love Alex Fitzgerald!!! This video is 4 pages of notes of GOLD!!!!

[@scave_phase5337]

I’m only halfway through this but absolutely loving it and damn am I making some of these mistakes but the question I have is do you have something like this for cash games in the micros?

[@pablomatheiscumbres3728]

How can you be folding kjo on minute 18:47?

[@MylesHoch]

I noticed in the video that u checked when oop in hu pots as the preflop aggressor several times, are you always supposed to do this and I just didn’t know, as I would just lead as the preflop aggressor

[@Johnclouth]

Thanks for this video it’s fantastic

[@PokerCoaching]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[@earl864]

Love the content and thank you for creating it and sharing. What is a 4 card flop?

[@mikehager5506]

Your In position they should check to you so you can check back and see the 4th card

[@earl864]

@@mikehager5506 Ahh I get it, ty

[@robs4530]

this was a great video thanks!

[@nickyhouben5814]

The KT on the SB would you call suites KT?

[@worthplayingfor2197]

great video! question though, why do you sometimes do a min raise preflop instead of 3x or 3.5x?

[@mikewilliams3509]

Yea I noticed people open up 2.2x and not 3x or 3.5x anymore i just figure they can be looking to see a cheaper flop or hoping you reraise them so then they can pop it up but idk why people started doing that especially in cash games

[@verytrue9]

Depends on the stack size

[@oldhamegg]

Pushing all in on the 2nd example seems like a weird push. I guess losing just 3 dollars is not a big deal but still that seems like an overall losing strategy.

[@neopromise]

Hello sir About the limp jam with 20 a 30 BB.... With which hands can we do this? Thx for all

[@alanhop878]

Nice video! If we want to learn tournament strategy, should we learn cash game strategy first and then transition to tournaments or just jump into them?

[@leanlasagne8176]

If you only want to play MTT's, then focus on MTT strategy. If you wanna do both, then it would probably be best to learn cash then tourneys, cause its way easier for cash players to adjust to tourneys then vice versa

[@mikehager5506]

In my opinion the 2 are so different that you should choose one and lean that then when you want to learn the other tournaments you are short stacked less then 30bb way more often so hard to use cash 100 + bb strategies

[@conorm2524]

I think tourney players transitioning to cash will find it very boring. Whereas cash players moving to tourney should have solid fundamentals down and will be easier to adjust ranges as the blinds increase. But still play tight enough.

[@burdetterobb2247]

On the hand at 1:10. What I do to talk myself out of wanting to see that loop closed and calling bad is I ask myself. Can I find a better spot vs this player to get my money in. Usually the answer is yes. He might be tricking me. If so he got me this hand. But I'll find a better spot to put him to the test.

[@DEV_XO]

Amazng content mate! Thanks!

[@d2vid5]

Hey so maybe a noob question, but to what extent do these strategies apply to cash games?

[@PokerCoaching]

Very much so!

[@kenrobinson1188]

I've tried to talk to people about GTO at my local cardroom(not a small city, quite a few players). It's mind BOGGLING how many people are against GTO and even MORE MIND BOGGLING the reasons. I suffered a bad beat and a friend(with a straight face) said "See, GTO cannot account for bad beats." I asked him what his philosophy was and how in the world he's strained the luck out of poker.

[@micarobles3248]

Almost made a live show,Tks for all thr great content coach.

[@mudninja1947]

Great video, and as a bonus for you, you just sold an audio book as a result.

[@n1kk1cathar1ne]

Is the limp/jam exploit also usable in 2nl cash games online? And with which other cards besides Q9o can we do this?

[@milessitcawich5947]

Really needed to hear this. My hero calls are never good

[@renstillmann]

I sometimes call to see the persons hand 😅😂. I am new at this. So it's ( I guess) helping to learn how often (almost never) someone bluffs with big bets.

[@Funky159]

Bro, let me share a little succes story I started playing online poker just a few weeks earlier, i had some experience in the past but obviously im not at the high stakes level or even mid stakes! My money is at the microstakes tournaments. Just in my first day of online play i won a 2EUR buyin tournament and got 100 EUR so i was + around 90EUR On my second day i didnt get so lucky and tuned a loss of 5 torunaments = 10 EUR This went on for a week and i started watching thee videos to understand what was i doing wrong My know-how improoved a lot but i still kept loosing but at this point i started to break even on a regular basis by placing lowest postitions that get the buy in back and a bit on top so i knew for a fact im getting there Then i see this amazing video last week and actually took notes and i also kept this video timestamped for different hands and positions while i was in tournaments Guess what, my total earnings for just 3 weeks of playing 2-3 tournaments a day not counting weekends amount to almost 600 EUR This is from just entering 2-5 EUR buyin tournaments and im 100% sure this video is one of the reasons why. I know there is a lot more to learn and im just really excited to keep going and i wish you all the best of luck and also be careful with your money If i hadnt been so lucky on my first day with wining the 100 EUR pot i would have prbbly stated tilting and jamming my cash and loosing fast Take your time, be smart, count the odds and keep it safe!

[@hankunzhang9661]

learned and tried, lost all my bankroll in low stakes. Thx man

[@DJPao86]

QJo BvB - Hand 2: most of the small stakes random opponents will snap you with Ax ok even KTs+ and you will be behind. I'm not so sure that way to play that spot is more profitable than raise-folding, but i'll give it a try

[@marcosbarcala6249]

This is just a classic case of Alex being a maniac... hehehe, just kidding (or am I?)

[@nickyhouben5814]

On the 288 board why dont you check-raise the flop?

[@PKzenn]

watched it all, i realize my post flop play onward is suboptimal, i try to take down a lot of pots early esp if i have the lead, i wouldve bet many times when he just checked, guess thats why i have a loty to learn.

[@Diavolo222]

Incredible video!

[@arnoldPLO5]

I would have never folded the T9s at 42:00. In my opinion it is a good bluff and also a better call than fold.

[@marcosbarcala6249]

setting money on fire XD

[@arnoldPLO5]

@@marcosbarcala6249 In small stakes tournament, maybe. I mainly play cashgames, and T9s seems to be the most natural bluff to raise with (4 outs to the nuts, 6 outs for sdv, a lot of outs to continue barreling like a heart, J or Q. And it is an easy fold when our opponent 3bets)

[@karlos417]

What buyin is classed as micro anything under 20 ?

[@xKumei]

I guess I've been cbetting more than I should be (at least exploitatively). Like the reason you cbet on good equity boards is partly so they have to call you when you actually hit right? But they aren't even thinking about that. And I am definitely one of those people who WANTS to believe they will fold to a bluff and they just don't, but then also bets too small hoping not to scare them off. The way to beat micros is to make them pay to see that river.

[@dominicferguson569]

I know this is for tournaments but is it viable for cash games too

[@godloves9163]

I would like to know how to beat the in house players?

[@frankfriel1511]

If the opposing players at the table are not calling pre flop shoves with their smaller stacks, 20 -30 big blinds, should you change your strategy and start making small raises with premium hands? I mean, you do want to get these stacks to commit at some point, right?

[@georgilukanov9175]

I had a situation this friday on a "home game". We started playing cash 1/2 with 200$ after 2-3 hours i was chip leader with 1500$ got the fish on the table few times when he bluffed me with high cards and etc, but i was in a situation that i thought about whole night and even now... i had AK off suited we were 5 people on the table i was on the button CO raise to 10$ he was very loose i 3bet to 25$ flop comes A 10 5 all spades, villain raise 40$ i 3bet him to 120$ turn comes another A, he checks i raised 200$ he called river came the worst card... 2 of spades, 4 spades on board i didnt had any spade villain snap raise to 400$, i thinked about bluffing.. but i caught him in 2-3 situations like this i dont think he will repeat the mistake.. i folded my AK trips... did i played it right ? What were you going to do on my place?

[@NegativeAccelerate]

Damn. I mean there's over a 50% chance he has a spade. I'm obviously no expert but it sounds like the right move.

[@ianpayno8968]

Thank you!!!

[@mvthods]

Yo you had me so weak at 28:00 with the 78s hand. I always want to open those lmaoo

[@noThankyou-g5c]

can you do one on microstake cash games ? a lot of the strategies of going all in short stacked arent SUPER helpful in cashgames since it’s rare to ever rlly be under like:.. 60BB unless I guess you’re specifically into playing a short stack strategy. but ya like I cant see myself risking $5 to pick up $0.17 (and defend my $0.05) with ATs

[@pastpianist]

For the "limp/jam 20/30x more" rule, does that also apply to cash games? I'm assuming no and we just change that to maybe a larger raise?

[@markrussell383]

I'm came to the comments to find the same info!!

[@codyharris589]

Good video

[@jasonfoster9118]

Thanks man!

[@nightfalcon6006]

Just great Thanks

[@marcosbarcala6249]

Great material as always thanks Alex and Jonathan I have been trying to dominate micros for quite some time (couple years?) and I wish I would have the time to just play everyday... tbh I have spent so much on training videos etc that I guess I am quite down on my poker investment, but I don't consider it a loss, just an investment... Difficult to make money at the micros unless you end up winning one of those crazy 2000-5000 player MTTs or whatever, I mean, it is really difficult to make real money there and it can be very frustrating, honestly I was even sweating some of the spots because I am like "omg we flopped third pair with QQ again XD". I wonder to what extent these adjustments apply to slightly higher MTTs like 16 to 22 USD buy ins for example.

[@LuizCarlos-gs3js]

Do you make any money consistent in micros?

[@dylanjoven4935]

how many hands do you have?

[@MrWadeBarrett]

My hand: [6h 6s] Flop: [6c 2c 3d] I raise 50x and get called River: [4c] I go all in and get called and lose to [7c 5c]

[@conorm2524]

Why did you go all-in?

[@stevenobrien3763]

Not much info on positions, stack sizes or player types but I’d not jam all in with a set when there’s a flush draw on the board and a straight draw which he hit both. What was the betting pre flop? He’s got the nut straight on that board.

[@beck204]

Seems like a crazy amount of all ins. One wrong move against a monster or a bad beat and you’re out of the tournament.

[@joevince6066]

It's to accumulate chips. Good players cash high or win bigger often. Most people ate just happy to min cash

[@random-characters4162]

"Do not expect perfection from a game of chance" Golden!

[@lucashatt8871]

thank you

[@crazycooter5880]

You play on acr mostly?

[@thomasclark5413]

Im confused. Alex tells us over and over again about how we basically shouldnt bother trying to bluff on microstakes tournaments because they dont fold now suddenly at 1:44:30 we are check raising after missing the flop???

[@conorm2524]

He spends 5 minutes explaining why afterwards.

[@marcosbarcala6249]

Yeah, I actually think donk betting is superior here because we can go 66-75% pot making the bluff much cheaper (maybe go 5k chips and that is half the money we spend to bluff). The board hits a BB def range quite well... I thought Alex would recommend donking. Check raising players who like to cbet a lot works very well in the micros, I even like going for XR from the BB on A high disconnected boards because people see the A on the board and "represent" it way too much - especially vs late position raisers. But in a low connected I like donking, opponent should fold anything worse than a pair and if they continue oh well we are done with the hand unless we hit TP and that's it. But maybe I am just crazy XD

[@laldinglianatlauvantawl3327]

Thanks for the content. I'm the villain in all the hans lol

[@RusuCatalin-yj7wd]

Watching for the 3rd time 😅

[@roteshere]

1:07:36 don't start the video here

[@MrPastige]

39:02 Why do you raise here?

[@jameis3696]

The KJo from the BTN vs UTG doesn't seem to be a GTO fold at all, what's the idea here? I understands micro players aren't too familiar with GTO usually, however what's the thought process? That they have a tighter range than GTO? Surely you could easily make the case that a micro player could be either tighter or looser, thus meaning GTO is still the sweetspot you should apply unless you have info on the player. Really don't see why this hand isn't a call IP.

[@cyrusolinger]

I froze in time when you said my exact bet at 1:27:50 😂

[@mikewilliams3509]

What you said about players blowing off steam I do that and definitely play way better when I play live .. unfortunately I don't drive and I'm in northern NJ so getting down to AC or sands in PA is rough so I continue to play stakes not above my means but I play foolish and I'm so impatient and I know the money is real believe me but I like having the chips in my hand and looking at and table talking people .. idk I feel like I should've been a solid 1 2 reg or 2 5 reg and instead I blow it online and b4 black Friday I loved the tourneys on PokerStars and the 12 dollar sit and go's and would win 2 of them a day it was a different time back then .. I'm rambling but the point is I would rather play live than online

[@MrWadeBarrett]

Ive applied the second example three times now and lost all-ins. Not sure this is quite a sustainable strategy. And yes, I did this only when I had hands like A8s and other strong hands.

[@conorm2524]

What was the 2nd example? I personally would not consider A8s a strong hand.

[@noThankyou-g5c]

1:28:47 Actually yes I have, on Twitch 😂😂

[@mikehager5506]

What a great video hope we can get one like this on the next level up like $33.00 ➕️

[@mattmilne7380]

Ok IDK if you will ever even read this but I have a question. Great content by the way thank you. I will be utilizing this information tonight in fact. Anyway my question is on the after the flop segment @ 46 minutes in, the A7 hand. You decided to play and caught your mid pair is there anything wrong with leading with a small to mid sized bet just to get information. Yes it's a spade heavy flop but how do you know unless you make some kind of bet that they ain't bluffing you. Fuck I would, you checked into me. By making a 1/4 to 1/2 sized pot bet if they missed they would fold, but if they didn't they are gonna call or raise then you know for a fact yeah I'm beat. Am I wrong in my way of thinking? Again excellent content thank you.

[@gavinbrinck]

why can't you bluff OOP in a MW pot ? can't you just size up your bluff based on players in ('smartly') .. how bad is this ??

[@PO-Dunk_din]

I feel in micro steaks villain is calling all in pushes with A rag way to much so ur second hand example I feelbur coin flipping

[@NklHfy]

Thumbs up for Ren and Stimpy references in 2022

[@erdaddy5845]

No offence but I don't love this video as much as the others. Unlike your other videos, it doesn't start with the GTO strategy, and explain reasons or heuristics around how and why you would deviate from GTO in that spot to be exploitative. Like at 18:00 for example, you say to fold that KJo from the BN. But KJo on the BN vs an UTG raise is a GTO call. But you don't explain that, and you don't explain why you would fold that hand, even after you said you think the UTG might be loose, which should be more conviction to call with the bottom of your range, which is KJo according GTO (modern poker theory ranges). I'm sorry for the criticism but i hope you can take it constructively, because otherwise i think you make excellent content most of the time, but to me, this specific video is just a few specific examples that don't tell you how or when to deviate generally.

[@conorm2524]

Very simply because it's microstakes.

[@erdaddy5845]

@Conor M You still need some type of strategy regardless of the stakes. What is the strategy here? Is it to play tighter than normal and shave off the bottom of your range at micro stakes? Otherwise it seems like he's just playing by "feel", which will end up being inconsistent and can lead to mistakes.

[@conorm2524]

@ErDaddy Did we watch the same video? He explained each street in each hand and deviated far from GTO depending on the player, their tendencies, stack size, position etc etc. You're thinking "GTO says this, solver says that", but that largely goes out the window at these stakes.

[@marcosbarcala6249]

In the micros you should tell GTO to GTFO

[@stevenobrien3763]

Most players at the Microstakes are unaware of GTO strategy or even a lot of basic fundamentals.

[@paulmontoya71]

Preflop move, just defend, call

[@joedavis85929]

Suggestion: For a fun change of pace, breakdown the final hand from casino royal

[@FefeLeVrai]

Main takeaway from this hand : don't flat A6o on the button. Seriously Le chiffre has no business being in this pot. Easiest fold pre ever ;)

[@keithdunlap]

I am taking notes. So far, I missed the SB limp/jam. That's it.

[@king_has_no_clothskul8635]

EXCELLENT POINT. IT TAKES ENERGY TO BLUFF AND PLAY LIKE A MANIAC. IT COSTS MASSIVE ENERGY. YOU CANT PLAY IT HOURS AND HOURS LIKE THAT. --------------- AND I HAVE NO CLUE HOW THE HELL YOU CAN SHOVE ALL SORT OF RANGES AND HOPE TO WIN. --------------

[@adriancosminserbanescu5788]

Ya...but if i have soo much bad luck....when i go all in, whith better cards most allawas....and i lose.... Who i can't mange this...an exemple....yo KK and villan AQ off suite....and he win....

[@LifeisA_Dream]

❤

[@humanze]

I had to look up "nefarious". Perhaps I'm too stupid to play poker.😅