[istewart]

Well the benefit is that if you are good, there are more hands per hour and more decisions per hour, so more money is to be made. Also, while I haven't played full ring in quite some time, I would have to imagine that the bad players still flock to 6-max - so the player quality can be worse. The converse of this is that usually the best players are also playing 6-max, but that shouldn't dissuade you.

Most of us here find online full ring to just be really boring. Two years ago, everyone said that you should play 6-max because as you move up in limits, all of the games are shorthanded. Now, even at the lowest limits, the large majority of the games are shorthanded. So it's also a function of game availability.