6-handed limit general advice

[melioris]

Tonight I started a new thing for me, $1/$2 6-handed limit. Once I get a handle on the short-handed side of the game, I think it will be my new thing. I have played a lot limit a year ago and crushed it up to $2/$4 full table before switching over to limit. (at first I was worried about writing that sentence and sounding arrogant, but looking at I realize that is it kind of a pathetic sounding worth the laugh if someone thinks I am bragging)
After doing some research and what not, have a pretty good handle on starting hands/position play in theory. It will take some time to figure it out actually playing, but I think it should be fun. Tonight I got destroyed, but I was way too loose and aggressive. I think the game is remarkably beatable and I hope I will not live to regret that statement. But yikes the beats that I suffered, and this is only 475 hands. Any and all general advice is appreciated until I post some hh.

[Talking Poker]

6 max limit is my favorite cash game - even though I pretty much never play it any more.

pshabi has posted loads of good HHs for discussion. Do a search and you should be able to find lots of good stuff.

[PShabi]

What site are you playing on? If you want, AIM me at PShabi when you're on and I'll watch you for a little bit, give you some help. Believe it or not, sweating somebody from the rail really helps me too.

I'm a nerd.

[X-Longshot-X]

Im not gonna argue with that.....

[melioris]

thanks Pshabi, I will be in touch. I play on party (melioris). Between the kids, my job, and my wife, I ain't real regular. (come on, somebody run with that) I'll look for you sometime later next week. It will be awesome to have your comments on my game.

[JPSmiley]

Ive been wondering if i should be playing 6-max instead of full ring. I have just started playing limit again and have had good results. I play very aggressive when i have position and try not to get myself in pots when im out of position unless i hold very good cards. Is there a big difference between playing 6-max and full ring, other than the aggressiveness preflop? If i am doing well at full ring is there more profit to be made playing 6-max and is it hard to learn how to play well? Shabi, you are the master, i need some advice

[Talking Poker]

I'm not shabi, but hopefully my 2 cents will count for something here too.

Yes, there is a huge difference. It's not just aggressiveness PREFLOP, as you suggested, but aggressiveness throughout the entire hand. You also need to lower your starting hand requirements quite a bit from what you would play full ring, obviously.

As for where the money is to be made.... keep this in mind, if you make 2 BB/100 playing both full ring and 6 max, you're going to be making a LOT more money by playing 6 max, because you get a lot more hands in per hour.

No one can tell you where there is more money to be made though, of course. In the end, poker is a zero sum game (minus the rake), so it depends on where you play better. I can tell you though that 6 max has significantly higher variance than full ring, so I'd recommend a bigger bankroll for it.

[melioris]

I am done playing for the day, and for the first time I can go to bed an overal winning 6-max player. I am tempted to pull my $10.99 profit out of party and frame it.

This was my weekend experiment of $1/2 6-max limit. Damn, I am hooked. This game has got me fired up again about playing poker. At my current rate of 0.23BB/100 I should be running at the 5/10 with PShabi in about 40 years!

[eejit101]

Good luck with that. if yor my age now (21) then you wont need a computer to play shabi, we will either have invented brain poker vs people, or something else thats clever by then

[melioris]

to those in the know, what is the recommend buyin for 6-max? I currently buyin for 25BB, but that is the default on party and I am lazy. And I got the BB/100 up to 1.28 over my first 3200 hands. WOOT

[Boobie Lover]

25 is fine. Just keep enough money at all times so you can cap every street (12 big bets).

[Talking Poker]

Exactly. Buy ins don't matter in limit, so long as you have enough to cap all the way.

I usually just buy in for the standard, which is (well, "was" - I haven't played in a while) 25 BBs on Party.

[BrianSwa]

I’m responding before reading, I’m not best 6-handed player or best player to begin with. TP should be your guy here he plays tons of 6-handed.


OK anyway I love 6-handed and it’s pretty much what I play if I get a chance to play (not very often). You have to open up your game a lot during 6 handed for obvious reasons, blinds come faster and position is now very altered. Not sure if you are talking NL or limit but in 6-handed limit and no-limit now it is very very hard to get people to lay down. Don’t know what you are playing but pot odds don’t mean anything to these people because there basic response will most likely be “but we were heads up”. So punishing people on their draws is very easy to do, you should crush this game in long run as long as you don’t fall into their mentality. Good luck.

Just noticed you are only talking about Limit well now its pretty much impossible to get people to fold. Make them PAY make them SUFFER to draw!!!!