LC - Why don't you play 6 max ?

[Yoshi]

I am different than most of the posters on this thread. I prefer 6max. IMO there are much worse players at 6max than FR. Not necessarily bad players but most people either play 6max tables way too tight or way too loose. There is the exception to the many good players but if you play enough then you should recognize the regulars and choose a different table or leave when there are 2-3(good)regs at your table. Trust me, there are plenty of other tables just full of weak/passive opponents or overly aggressive opponents. 6max can be extremely profitable with very little variance if you practice proper table/opponent selection and you can adjust well to your opponents style of play.

[Johnes Benjamin]

Mostly, I am still improving my FR game and I can make money while doing it but I do plan to play more 6max in the future.
Variance also is greater and I hate that.

One thing that no one has brought up direcly is that I believe it is much easier to multi table FR (one contributing factor to being able to make more money).

I would like to know people's thoughts on this. How has multitabling 6max gone for people?
I would assume it is close to impossible to 12 table at significant stakes

[Yoshi]

Multi tabling. Thats a good point. Me personally if I multi table I can show profit over the long run with 5 tables, 6 is boarder line, but this is when the variance is huge; therefore, I try to stick with 1 or 2 b/c there is such a huge difference in my hourly rate. Big enough where it is way more profitable for me to play 1 rather than 4. However, I know people that play 10 tables of 6 max at 5/10 & 10/25 NL and absolutely dominate all the tables. For me its just way to hard to play that good on all tables b/c reads are so important w/ 6max b/c well timed aggression is a major factor to consistently beating these tables. For the most part I would say it is almost impossible to consistantly beat the 6max tables 12-tabling.(With the exception of the very few people who are exceptionally good at 12-tabling)
I would love to hear other people views on this too.

[Klompy]

I play both, but my long term winrate at six max is about double what it is at full ring. I play full ring whenever I feel like turning off my mind and just going on autopilot 9+ tabling while watching TV, this might be the reason why the winrate is so much different.

The play at six max is much worse, and it's fun to be able to value bet tp/tk on the turn without it feeling like a bluff. The play at full ring is so straight forward though that it's pretty easy to make the right choices most of the time and feel good about it, even if it's not as profitable.

[EN09]

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I play full ring whenever I feel like turning off my mind and just going on autopilot 9+ tabling while watching TV,

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9 tabling... 10-11 tables... Yikes! I'm singling and still learning the NLFR game. LHE I used to 6 table, can't imagine 9 at NL. Just use teh Bet The Pot button, slide or type in bets?

Congratz to you gamers...

[Mr. Pozzer]

ENO9 I type in my big bets and just click on the slider for preflop raises and c-bets.

To everybody saying the variance is sick in 6 max I can say with lots of experience that playing a nitty 19/8 style is pretty variance free as long as you don't suck postflop. The more aggressive you play the more variance you have. You pretty much pick how much variance you have by what kind of style you play.

[soah]

playing 19/8 at six max might be low variance but it's gonna be low profit too at any reasonable stakes

[Mr. Pozzer]

I mean at $50NL and under, above that you need to step it up. I should have mentioned that in my OP, my b.

[PrimogenitoX]

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I play both, but my long term winrate at six max is about double what it is at full ring. I play full ring whenever I feel like turning off my mind and just going on autopilot 9+ tabling while watching TV, this might be the reason why the winrate is so much different.

The play at six max is much worse, and it's fun to be able to value bet tp/tk on the turn without it feeling like a bluff. The play at full ring is so straight forward though that it's pretty easy to make the right choices most of the time and feel good about it, even if it's not as profitable.

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This month I won a prop bet which required me to play 25k hands of 600NL fr...what a huge joke...

25,001 hands of 600nl fr $10,336.55 3.45bb/100

now

22,097 hands of 600nl 6max? how about: $17,059.75 6.43bb/100

$7k more for 3k hands less? what a huge joke full ring is...

[boston]

I started off playing FR and just sorta kept with it. Im gonna stay with FR until i get 100-150k hands at 200nl and a good win rate. Then cont. with FR but start learning 6max, starting out at 50nl and setting up rules to move up.