How To EXPLOIT Micro Stakes Poker Players With Alex Fitzgerald! 

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

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!

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!!!

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!!

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

This video is a perfect example of why Alex is one of the best poker coaches in the world.

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

finally a video on micro stake poker last 3 years I've been searching for decently long video of in depth lecture(s) of how to play micro stake poker. This will help my game big time👍

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

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

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!

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

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

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 :)

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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?

20 minutes in and learnt so much.

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.

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.

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

Stuck with this video and it’s actually really helpful

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

great video, awesome coaching, sub well deserved

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

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?

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

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]

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

What buyin is classed as micro anything under 20 ?

He really likes hearing himself talk, get to the point guy

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

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

Thanks for this video it’s fantastic

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

this was a great video thanks!

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.

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

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

Amazng content mate! Thanks!

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 ??

I really hope the guy who bet pot on the 3 flush board was bluffing. My first instinct on that 3 flush board was to raise, you will find out real quick whether or not he has a flush there.

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

Incredible video!

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???

There’s no way u r advocating for folding T9s bdfd w two overs and a gutter vs 1/2 just bc sb is short. Poker is indeed alive and well

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....

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.

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

You play on acr mostly?

Watching for the 3rd time 😅

Thank you!!!

Thanks!

Thanks man!

Just great Thanks

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

thank you

Good video

About all I’ve taken out of this in the first 30 is shove all in any two face cards and that doesn’t seem like a great strat

Thumbs up for Ren and Stimpy references in 2022

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. --------------

Yep, I agree, best video on this topic I've seen! HOWEVER, since you've been kind enuf to improve my game, I'm going to improve yours. This is going to test your emotional intelligence but being so very intelligent, I'm guessing you can take it. Your tone of voice tends to be a bit harsh and a bit condescending when making a big point. This is what drove little kids crazy in 3rd grade. A better "VOICE" is the happy-because-you-are-a-winning-player tone- more entertaining, more friendly, WAY easier to listen to. GRINDING WORDS - NO! NO! NO! What is grinding? It's what your Mother did at the end of her words- elongating them in a VERY irritating way, kind of GRINDING that last syllable, or more technically, often the last phoneme. It's how the word AND morphs into the EEEEEYYYYOOOOOONNNNNDDDDD abortion that you pronounce. And is a one syllable word. It should be pronounced as such. Practice saying it as FAST AND COMPACT as you possibly can. You grind many other words too, but once you realize you're doing it, and once you realize how it can affect an audience, I have faith that you can CHECK-RAISE this behavior and take a more profitable line.

Nicholas Cage and Doug Polk had a baby...

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

39:02 Why do you raise here?

IT IS MIGHTY DIFFICULT. THE ABOVE DUDE SPENT 20 YEARS THERE! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! SO BE READY TO GET BIATCH SLAPPED BY A TRUCK DRIVER BECAUSE CARD FELL IN HIS FAVOUR AND YOU HAD AKKK,AA,AJ AND IN YOUR HAND AND ON THE BUTTON WHEN ALL CALLED AND YOU STUDIED ALL THESE POSITIONS,EQUITY,GPO,ICM ET ALL!!!!! ================= I KID YOU NOT. TRUCK DRIVER WILL PUNK YOU OR A JANITOR AND THAT PAIN IS IMMENCE. ======================= BECAUSE MIND ACCEPTING DEFEAT IS VERY PAINFUL! THE ELEMENT OF LUCK IS THE ONLY NEUTRALIZER IN TOWN! HE GOT THAT CARD AND YOU DID NOT FAIL TO NOTICE. IT WILL PUNK SOLVERS TOO AS SOLVERS ARE DESIGNED BY HUMAN BEINGS( LIKE CHESS ENGINES)

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

First off, great video with a lot of awesome information… But for fucks sake dude y’all need to cut back on the ads… This is a 2 hour long video and every 5 fucking minutes there’s an ad playing