Ugh. Immense success at 6-max is something that transcends starting hand requirements. It's about getting people hooked on hands and draining them with strange straights, trips or two pair. It's about taking deceptive lines that get there. It's about putting people in line or denying value to rocks. It's about knowing how to extract value from a flush, or how to play overpairs efficiently. It's about value betting marginal hands in the right spots. It's about inducing bluffs, and then snapping them off with weak hands. It's often ballz and a tight plan of action. It's a game of balanced lines to supplement unpredictability. It's less about not making a mistake, and more about forcing people into them.

6 Max = Proactive

The bottom line is if you're still thinking about starting hand requirements, you won't make the max from 6-max. If you ever watched me at a 6-max table, you would see me sitting on 7+ buy ins while 3 people bitch about the 7T offsuit I just raised UTG and won a huge pot with. People calling me "lucky", or "fish", while buying in again.