Like many up-and-comers in the early 2000s, Nathan "Blackrain79" Williams found poker as a broke kid in his early twenties, fresh out of university and with little direction. From there Williams embraced the life of a jetsetting grinder, traveling the world and amassing "some of the highest winnings in online poker history." (How high? He doesn't say.)
Unlike Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky, Doug "WCGRider" Polk, and others who grinded from nothing to the nosebleeds, Williams focuses exclusively on the microstakes. In The Microstakes Playbook: Simple Poker Strategies for Massive Success — his third book — Williams's goal is "to get you winning big against the weak opponents at the lower limits, either online or live, and then quickly moving up the stakes.