6-max starting hand considerations? LO8 1/2
So I recently started playing 6-max LO8 1/2 instead of FR and was wondering how to adjust my starting hand requirements. For the first couple thousand hands I was between 15%-20% of flops when not in the blinds--resulting in about a 40%-45% overall precentage. But I soon realized that if I wasn't happening to hit flops fairly often my stack would get blinded away very quickly. I would pretty much only play hands like A2xx, A3wx, AAxxss or special ones like A44Kds, QJT9ds, KK23ss when I wasn't in the blinds.
Lately I have opened up and played hands like 2357ss, 223x, QQ25ss, KQ23ds etc, and brought my off-blind percentage up to around 25%-30% (around 50% overall). I have had favorable results after maybe 500 hands, but with a lot of variance. Of course I adjust based on the player notes of others (ie "Cold calls on button with QdQs4c7s").
What should my flop% goals be in 6-max? What kinds of hands should I play if I do play more?
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