How to Make Money Playing Micro Stakes Cash Games

When you play online poker, it really doesn't matter what stakes you play even though many people think that you can only make money on the big stakes. There are many different things that you can accomplish by playing the smaller stakes, and contrary to popular belief you can even make money in micro stakes cash games if you play your cards right.

Micro stakes are interesting in that they allow you to play against inexperienced players in a cash game setting who you may be able to take advantage of more than you would other players at higher stakes. After all, it's all about the cash and hopefully you will be able to make some money at these stakes and use it as either a good source of small amounts of income or to get yourself back to higher stakes (or just score some quick cash when you're bored). Additionally, cash games are nice because they allow you to make some cash and then leave.

Micro stakes cash games are a little frustrating because you are not playing for lots of money so you need to really be on your game and even then you will run into a problem because the money you make is awfully small compared to what you will make on a normal stake cash game online. To combat this you will need to multi table, and therefore have a system that allows you to make snap decisions without having to spend a lot of time at each table. If you think about it, playing 10 $0.05/$0.10 games is the same as playing one $0.50/$1.00 game but what you will find out is that you will actually make more money this way because you get more hands and therefore you won't lose as much money on the bad hands. In essence, micro stakes cash games allow you to be diversified in your hands and therefore your drawdowns won't have as much of an affect as before.

So, if you are going to play micro stakes cash games, you will need to be able to have a good game style that will allow you to make snap decisions without having to spend a lot of time on any one game, you will need to have a good setup for all types of games and styles. Make sure to take a couple precautions and you could turn multi-tabling micro stakes cash games into a good source of quick cash or maybe a longer term easy side-income.