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Finally, you are good and ready to play for real in cash games. The time has finally come and the bell has tolled. Get yourself and your cash ready; you are about to break into the low-stakes tables.  In the real life poker world, low-limit usually means anything below $6/$12.
Occasionally you can find real life poker limits at $2/$4 for Omaha and Hold 'Em and maybe a Stud game at $1/$2. The cyberspace gives you a whole lower spectrum of poker world, sometimes starting at $0.01/$0.02. (The site's main menu always informs you the available limits - just choose a game type and see the bottom of the list.) People refer to anything under $1/$2 as micro-limit and call anything from $1/$2 to $5/$10 as low-limit.

Micro-limits

In the micro-limits, the playing level typically isn't too high. These games tend to be quite easy to beat; good for boosting the ego of a skilled player. Players at this level are substantially more sociable than their bigger-monies counterpart on the higher-limit tables.

Another good feature of micro-limit games is that the house frequently doesn't take a rake (meaning that the poker site doesn't take a percentage of each pot). Most sites do not take a rake until the pot hits $1, and if you choose to play in the fixed-limit poker games with stakes of $0.02 / $0.04, well, the pot will never get that big. Rakes normally don't amount too much, but when you just begin and have just enough skill to beat your fellow players, you'll be happy you don't need to outpace the rake. If a few extra cents in your online poker account make you happier, this will be a good thing.  Don't ignore the difference between the $0.02 /$0.04 games and the $30/ $60 games. Your successes at the micro-limit games do not mean you are automatically in par with those heavy hitters. Micros are played a lot more loosely than the upper-class games. The level of play rises in accordance to the limit on the tables.

Low-limits

If you have played low-limits in the real life poker environment, the playing experience on the cyberspace should seem very comparable. The most visible difference is the quality of player. In the real life poker world, we encounter some really good players at the lowest limit games. They just practice to improve their skill and prey on the clumsiness of low-limit beginners.

You do not find these seasoned players on the cyberspace as much. The level of play on low-limit online poker tables seems to be substantially lower.  A percentage of those people may be players who want to see some action above the micro-limits but simply don't have enough skills to match the new limits.

Due to the mediocre playing style, low-limit online games are probably the most profitable place you can have when we consider the amount of profit you can make each hour relative to the limits.

Where to play?

Good places to start playing at low stakes cash games includes PokerStars, Party Poker and Aced Poker.