6 max is better because...

[SixForty]

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SixForty, if you ignore bunching, then 6-max is the same as full-ring with the first four players folding, at least in terms of game structure. Where it differs, though, is that the table texture is so much more aggressive. Full-ring players tend to be much nittier than 6-max players, so when you get popped on the turn, hands like top pair don't look so good anymore. But in 6-max, the range of hands that players will pop you on the turn with is so wide, that you should be 3-betting top pair for value a lot of the time.

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I realize the changes postflop - there's a lot of differences because the hand ranges that you put people on are wider due to the aggressive nature of the game, as you said.

I was just responding to the one poster's comment about starting hand strategy.

Do you seriously play the same preflop game as full ring with the first four players folding? I wouldn't have thought the "game structure" is technically the same for the reasons that I stated in that previous post. A higher frequency of the blinds forces you to get involved more often. But in a 10 handed game where the first 4 players have folded, if that situation happened a hundred times in a row, you can throw away more marginal hands because the blinds don't force you to get involved as often.

Am I thinking wrong about that?