

Online you can find games as small as $.01 $.02, and in live casinos you can usually find games as low as $2 $4, but the stakes can go way up high, online up to around $150 $300, and in live casinos… well lets just say they can be VERY high. Limit holdem has many different levels of stakes to choose from.


Limit holdem is NOT no-limit holdem, so do NOT try to play them with the same mindset, or the same strategies. It is very very important that you get this through your head, as it is probably the most serious problem that a lot of players have when they try switching from no limit to limit. That is not what we are discussing today. Clearly it is much better to be good at both, but being great at one can actually be enough to be a winning player. If you are good enough at one, it can actually more than make up for the other in many cases. How can this be? No limit hold’em is a mixture of math and psychology/observation. You might not believe this, but it is true. Some no-limit hold’em players make consistent and large sums of money even though they are not that great at calculating odds, or doing much math when they play. In this article I will not just tell you what the correct basic strategy is for low stakes limit hold’em I will share WHY you are doing this, so that way you can see how you must properly adjust to various abnormal conditions that will frequently arise at the table. I have read all the well known books on this topic, and I have played a lot of this game at several different casinos, and over time I noticed that I was adjusting my strategy from the “textbook” style quite frequently when the table conditions necessitated it. I am not a pro by any means, but I am a winning player at several games, one of which is low stakes limit holdem (2/4, and 3/6). I realize that there are many books out there on beating low limit hold’em, but as you may notice, in the intro to most of them, it mentions that although following the directions in the book will most likely allow you to win at the game, there are ways to win even MORE big-bets-per-hour at it using slightly more complex strategies, which they usually don’t go into.
