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The_Bankroll
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10-18-2005, 06:25 PM
Post subject: I wanna learn to be a 6-max player!
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Flush
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Athens, GA
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I've been playing 1/2 and 2/4 limit hold 'em for a while, and have a good grasp on how to play limit in a full ring game. I want to start learning how to play 6-max, mainly because I want to try out the 35% rakeback FTR offers via battlefield poker, where all the 2/4 tables are 6 max pretty much, and maybe continue to whore out the partypoker skins, where I hear the 6-max games are still pretty soft. so I have a few questions:
1) Is it difficult to multi-table 6-max limit, i.e. paying more attention to players and making read-based plays, and/or using a tighter style not being as profitable?
2) what are some of the biggest adjustments a players has to make between 6-max and full ring limit?
3) any good books to recommend, or online articles or threads here? (besides hypermegachi's sticky)
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jmontis
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Full House
Join Date: Dec 2004
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dont feel like you have to play a hand every orbit in 6max, one round of the blinds isn't going to kill you
if you can't steal the blinds, you're at a disadvantage, but don't make it worse by raising crap hands into players you know will call.
any 2 big cards are open-raise worthy preflop
get used to 3-betting many hands from loose raisers
don't be timid with 77+, these are good hands especially if you can get them heads up
leave the table if a solid aggro player is raising every other hand to your right
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take your ego out of the equation and judge the situation dispassionately
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Demiparadigm
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Party 6 max
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Also leave the table if a weak player is calling every hand to your left.
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To win in poker you only need to be one step ahead of your opponents. Two steps may be detrimental.
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Fnord
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Be less inclined to steal with 65s.
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Demiparadigm
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Originally Posted by Fnord
Be less inclined to steal with 65s.
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I don't think of it as "stealing" as much as a value raise based on your positional advantage 
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To win in poker you only need to be one step ahead of your opponents. Two steps may be detrimental.
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zilch
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Straight
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Any sites better than others for 6-max? particularly .5/1 or 1/2
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Fnord
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Demiparadigm
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Originally Posted by Fnord
Be less inclined to steal with 65s.
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I don't think of it as "stealing" as much as a value raise based on your positional advantage |
Against blinds who are inclined to defend a lot, play back and go to showdown a lot 65s is a horrible hand to be stealing with.
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The_Bankroll
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Flush
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Originally Posted by zilch
Any sites better than others for 6-max? particularly .5/1 or 1/2
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I would imagine Partypoker has soft games, just like all their others, and I hear from 2+2 that the skins still have some soft 6-max games. I also played some at Doyle's Room last night (2/4 & 3/6) and the competition their seemed pretty soft. I was basically using my full-ring strategy, except loosening my raising requirements, raising/re-raising more with things like 77, AJ0, KJs, etc. and also having an easier time believing hands like TPTK were good.
also, here's a more specific 6-max question: you have a guy to your right who raises quite a bit, like once per orbit. do you think it's a good play to 3-bet with hands like AJo, KQs, or 88/99 to try to isolate him?
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