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What is "Jocks vs Nerds"? I understand the rest of your post, but I don't understand the title of the post at all. Are you saying jocks play one type of game and nerds play another? Is this a common shorthand from one of the forums I don't read or something?

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A lot of good NL cash game players, and most NL cash game pros, play 6-max. This is for several good reasons that I won't get into right now. However many players, myself included, prefer to play FR NL cash games.

This has lead to a dynamic, at least on this forum, where the "cool kids" play 6-max, and if you play NL cash games but you don't play 6-max then you're just not one of the cool kids. Further some 6-max players, at least the ones with little more maturity than your average 14 year-old pimple factory, are fond of making long and elaborate posts on why 6-max players are the best and most skilled players and how anyone who plays FR will never approach the skill level of a 6-max player. And of course the favorite place for these 6-max players to post their boasts and taunts is in the FR strategy forum.

I have observed that this is little different from the jocks vs nerds taunting and bullying common in high schools and jr. high schools. So far as I know I'm the only one who calls it this. I hope the name catches on, because I think it's particularly appropriate.

So when Matt & Sunny asked what readers wanted to see in vol II of PNL and several "jocks" said that they wanted vol II to be 100% 6-max, I made this tread asking them to make vol II more general but to then go ahead and write another book devoted entirely to 6-max. I believe 6-max deserves through treatment, but I think that vol II would be better if, like vol I, it is full of concepts that can apply to any NL situation.