I agree so much with what you write here that it's untrue.
1) I've been considering 6-max very very seriously. My previous prejudice against it was that "bad" players make plays at 6-max which would be errors in ring games, but are less so in 6-max (this point is mentioned by Sklansky or Malmuth or one of those lot). However, thinking on this again, this is specious reasoning on my part. I play limit rather than NL because weaker players go broke less quickly. Just because the bad players in 6-max make some good plays by mistake (as it were) doesn't mean that they won't go broke eventually. In other words, the high variance is an ally, not an enemy.
2) The major error that most players make in 6-max is that they over-compensate for the fact that it is short-handed. I've been watching this.
3) If I shifted to 6-max (and I have dabbled at it at 50c-$1) it would probably be at $2-$4 for a while.
4) Collusion is a bigger potential problem (although less so at these low stakes).
5) It would be a long-term commitment (hence my hesitancy to make the jump). At the moment I can still find the loose-enough ring games and I am not so prejudiced against games with three rocks, three good players and two slightly looser-passive players (say, 30%/3% preflop).
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On a final note, my volatility appears to be going through the roof at the moment, for reasons that are hard to fathom. In a 90-minute session on Party (just finished) I went $400 down an hour and finished $50 up. Part of this was undoubtedly due to the fact that people were willing to give me action because I was perceived to be "running bad". Indeed I was getting lots of AK and AQ and I was having to give up a lot of them on the turn. But then I started hitting and the players now tried to put in raises on the turn with a flush draw and an ace, only to be smacked with a three-bet from my TPTK.
In this sense, the "running bad" image is a two-edged sword. You lose a lot of fold equity, but you win a lot more when the cards run good.
I may commit myself to 6-table max on one poker site, perhaps a new one (for me). At least it would be an interesting project.
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Re: Leaving a Good Game
Date: 2006-05-14 08:37 am (UTC)1) I've been considering 6-max very very seriously. My previous prejudice against it was that "bad" players make plays at 6-max which would be errors in ring games, but are less so in 6-max (this point is mentioned by Sklansky or Malmuth or one of those lot). However, thinking on this again, this is specious reasoning on my part. I play limit rather than NL because weaker players go broke less quickly. Just because the bad players in 6-max make some good plays by mistake (as it were) doesn't mean that they won't go broke eventually. In other words, the high variance is an ally, not an enemy.
2) The major error that most players make in 6-max is that they over-compensate for the fact that it is short-handed. I've been watching this.
3) If I shifted to 6-max (and I have dabbled at it at 50c-$1) it would probably be at $2-$4 for a while.
4) Collusion is a bigger potential problem (although less so at these low stakes).
5) It would be a long-term commitment (hence my hesitancy to make the jump). At the moment I can still find the loose-enough ring games and I am not so prejudiced against games with three rocks, three good players and two slightly looser-passive players (say, 30%/3% preflop).
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On a final note, my volatility appears to be going through the roof at the moment, for reasons that are hard to fathom. In a 90-minute session on Party (just finished) I went $400 down an hour and finished $50 up. Part of this was undoubtedly due to the fact that people were willing to give me action because I was perceived to be "running bad". Indeed I was getting lots of AK and AQ and I was having to give up a lot of them on the turn. But then I started hitting and the players now tried to put in raises on the turn with a flush draw and an ace, only to be smacked with a three-bet from my TPTK.
In this sense, the "running bad" image is a two-edged sword. You lose a lot of fold equity, but you win a lot more when the cards run good.
I may commit myself to 6-table max on one poker site, perhaps a new one (for me). At least it would be an interesting project.
PJ