Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Grigoriy Skrypnik
Poker Expert

A modern guide to playing the microstakes

If you have our free money and can't wait to get started, this guide to the microstakes is for you. It will help a complete newcomer play profitably right away.

Microstakes guide for No Limit

w34z3l

"The aim is that this series should serve as a complete strategy guide for getting started and achieving a positive winrate at microstakes 6-max games. It will cover all the essential basic topics, such as preflop strategy and use of a HUD. It also aims to shed fresh light on areas where commonly advised strategy is outdated. For example – modern understanding of blind defence, 3-betting strategy, and playing in 4-bet pots." ‒ w34z3l

Starting from scratch

For many of our players who are Black Members now earning five-figure amounts monthly, it all started back at the microstakes. How did they achieve success? Why didn't they give up early? For many it's because of our comprhensive guides to these levels. After studying them, players knew beforehand how to act in almost any possible situation.

Today w34z3l offers you his complete microstakes walkthrough for shorthanded tables. It is a modern version of the guides that helped so many of our members thrive:

  • Do you like structure in your education?
  • When learning poker from scratch, do you want to do it right?
  • Or maybe you've learned the basics but don't know what to do next?
  • You can't afford private coachings and lessons right now?

If you answer yes to any of these questions, then the "6-max Walkthrough" guide by w34z3l is for you!

Watch the video guide by w34z3l

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