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They are absolutely appropriate for games ranging from .01/.02 up through 2/4 and even 3/6. I've even heard of people talking about 15/30 games that played like small stakes games. You just won't necessarily be able to apply all of the concepts at every level. Read and reread this book and master the quizzes. Notice that those 3/6 and 4/8 games the book was written for are live games. Live players tend to be much worse than online players at the same limits. If you can beat .05/.10 on a consistent basis online you can easily beat 2/4 live.

There's nothing wrong with starting small and building up. I put $20 in a year ago and worked my way up from .05/.10 up to .10/.20, .25/.50, .50/1.00, 1/2 and am now at 2/4 with a net profit of 4k. As long as you are willing to move down when running bad you will never need to put more money in.

At some point you'll want to pick up pokertracker and do some bonus hunting on the party network as this will account for a lot of extra profit once you hit .50/1.00.