Small Stakes Holdem?

[tskill]

Right now I play 10 NL on stars and am looking for a good book to read to improve my play.. I've always been somewhat interested in learning how to play limit well(Theres no NL ring games at the casinos around here anyway, and I will want to play there when I turn 21). Will reading SSH not only help me become a winning limit player but also improve my NL play (by giving me better understnading of theory, pot odds, implied odds, etc)?

I wasn't sure if I should post this in the micro limit forum or small stakes NL forum, so I posted in both.

As always, feedback is much appreciated [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Trainwreck]

SSH will help, Theory Of Poker should be #1 on your read list though.

Russell Fox/Scott Hanker's 'Mastering No Limit Hold'em' is an excellent new book on NL, I am just finishing it...

Odds will only take you so far, so don't get too caught up in it.

>TW<

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Right. I think the difference between low-stakes fixed-limit hold 'em and low-stakes no-limit hold 'em is that you can play fixed-limit hold' em by rote. Learn the starting hand standards. Learn how to count outs and figure pot odds. Your play in multi-way pots becomes sort of automatic (which is why people can play eight tables at once).

You can't play deep-stack NL hold 'em by rote. No amount of book-learnin' will allow you to play successfully on autopilot. (This is not true for playing a short stack -- see GSIH.) You will have to think through each hand carefully as you play, observing your opponents constantly whether you're in the hand or not.

Low-stakes fixed-limit hold 'em is about odds, which you can learn from a book.

Deep-stack no-limit hold 'em is about radically adjusting to the play of your opponents, and there are no books to hold your hand through that. You have to use your own brain power at the table.