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Hypermegachi's 6-Max Texas Hold'em Limit Guide - Summary Introduction
About the only thing left is about reading people. I don't think this skill can really be taught. Like Johnny Chan says, you need that poker instinct. If there's anything 6max will do is it will improve your reading skills ten fold. So...just keep playing and let experience take care of training your reading skills.
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Summary
Preflop:
- play tight early position, play looser late position
- almost always raise first in
- play very tight against a raise...fold or reraise most of the time (cold call if there are lots of people in the pot and implied odds warrant it)
Flop:
- protect your marginal hands by raising or check-raising
- build pots with your strong draws, bet into loose opponents, check call tight opponents
- some loose calls are ok if you close the action
Turn and River:
- continue betting into callers, just because they call doesn't mean they have anything
- don't slow down until raised back, reraise and cap all monster draws
- take free cards with weak draws, take free showdowns with stronger draws
Position:
- tend to play passively hands in early and middle position
- tend to play aggressively hands in late position
- if you are going to call in middle position, raise if there's a good chance you can get the button to fold
Hand values:
- it takes a lesser hand to win against 2 opponents, and takes a monster hand to win against 5 opponents, so adjust accordingly
Protecting your hand:
- bet and raise marginal hands if it will make players after you make unprofitable calls, or fold a better hand
- if the pot is big, just call the flop, and raise the turn on a safe card to induce bigger mistakes by your opponents
- from SSHE, raising when you should call can cost you one bet, but calling when you should raise can cost you the entire pot.
Blind steals and defense:
- take a shot at the blinds with decent hands
- defend your BB with anything good, even ace high
Swings:
- 300BB is the absolute minimum you should have. 100BB swings up and down are not uncommon
Bluffing:
- don't bother trying to bluff more than one opponent
- bluff if the chance they will fold is greater than 50%
- induced bluffs (ie bets from opponents that come out of no where) you should call with marginal to weak hands if you close the action, and raise if you can only beat a bluff but there are people after you
General:
- if they don't raise, my hand is still best
- every time you hit the call you should question why you did it...was it a long shot call, or are you just calling to find out what they hold?
- how much you start calling is a good indicator if you're playing properly or playing on tilt
- try and adapt a bet/raise/fold mentality, call only when necessary
- play aggressively in big pots, passively in small pots
- do not fold for 1 bet in big pots, you only need to be right more than 8% of the time, expect to catch a crappier hand or a bluff much more often than that
- don't worry about being slowplayed, playing aggressively makes you fall prey to traps...pay off with confidence! You won't get slowplayed enough for it to be a problem.
- most importantly, pot size is what drives all your decisions
Credits:
- me! hypermegachi
- David Sklansky's Theory of Poker
- Ed Miller's Small Stakes Holdem
- the limit players of FTR: Fnord, mike4066, elipsesjeff, Lonnie, gutshot, and more...
- honourable mention: soupie, ripptyde, a500lbgorilla, radashack
- others: if I forgot to mention your name, it belongs here
- and most importantly FTR itself for providing me with such a great online poker community!
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