I can tell you what my experience has been with the micro-limit game, and maybe there's something in there that you can use. I'm no expert, but I have been "specialising" in $2NL for about 16,000 hands now.

I used to follow Aok's Performance Poker 19 starting hand strategy and betting advice religiously. I tworks fine. However, for the last 1000 hands or so, I've been loosening up a lot in late position, or when the table is extremely passive, I'll call with anything semi-decent -- if the pot is unraised -- from almost any position.

I will NOT raise pre-flop with AK or AQ, as is Aok's advice. The only hands I'm raising with pre-flop are AA, KK, QQ and JJ. The rest is all limped. With the aforementioned hands, I will continuation bet usually 2/3 or the whole pot.

If I've got AA, I'll see the thing through no matter what, so I'll keep raising. If I have KK and there's an Ace on the board, well, usually someone has the other ace, so that's going to give me pause for concern. Same goes for QQ and JJ.

I am playing exceedingly passively -- basically using Aok's Counterplay -- and I am doing very well at these limits.

I suppose my advice, therefore, is to not raise so much pre-flop to minimise the use of continuation bets. People will call you anyways at these limits, unless you're at a table of players who you can see are trying to take the game more seriously.

I can already hear the nay-sayers to this advice, but I suspect that none 0f them remember how it is to play at these ridiculous limits. Whatever, I'm winning.

I don't know what limits you're at, but I have managed to make 67 bucks over the past month at the $.01/$.02 tables which is not too bad, I reckon. Say, 800 hands per week.

Check out Aok's post on Counterplay. It's the only way to play against the sort of opponent you meet at the micro-limits.

Oh, and the weekends are the best time for making cash, at least at Paradise, using this passive approach.

Jigs