Move to 6max?

[Conny]

I did a search but found nothing that could answer my question.

I've been considering moving to 6 max for a while. Currently I'm playing FR 0.25/0.5 on stars and doing quite ok. I feel that I mainly play full ring because most poker books asume full ring games. I've tried playing some nano limit 6max and find it way more interesting.

Should I wait with moving to 6max until I beat a bit higher games or should I just try it out and see how it goes? Anyways, any suggestions/experiences would be appreciated.

Conny

[martybonus]

personally i'm going to wait until i have at least 20k plus hands before i think about moving to fish-max.

but i'm quite conservative. i don't even multitable.

[Guitierez]

There was this great 100K post post by Marquis, that bumped up lately. Go from there, it has some outstanding links like a PF chart and good advice for 6max newbies.

[fretelöo]

Personally, I wouldn't start 6max before I

- comfortably 4table. Being able to do that shows that most situations and decisions have become obvious and natural and you don't have to think too much about them anymore. Thus, you can then concentrate on the differences with regards to FR and not on the basic procedures of poker in general.
- usually play 0.5/1. When switching to 6max, I'd always drop down a limit and there's simply no point playing .1/.2 6max. That's just a complete spewfest with very little educational value, imho.

[Str8Fish]

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- comfortably 4table. Being able to do that shows that most situations and decisions have become obvious and natural and you don't have to think too much about them anymore. Thus, you can then concentrate on the differences with regards to FR and not on the basic procedures of poker in general.

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I don't like this advice... the truth is, there are waaay more decisions to make in shorter periods of time in 6-max than there are in FR. Don't go to 6-max thinking you know the gist of poker and you'll do just fine. Rarely are situations obvious or natural. If you want to become good, you have to think about every move you make there because in reality, every situation is different. Your opponents are different, your position, your cards, the boards cards, etc. Learning how to adjust is imperative in 6-max, or you'll just be another one of my fish at the table.

[fretelöo]

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- comfortably 4table. Being able to do that shows that most situations and decisions have become obvious and natural and you don't have to think too much about them anymore. Thus, you can then concentrate on the differences with regards to FR and not on the basic procedures of poker in general.

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I don't like this advice... the truth is, there are waaay more decisions to make in shorter periods of time in 6-max than there are in FR. Don't go to 6-max thinking you know the gist of poker and you'll do just fine. Rarely are situations obvious or natural. If you want to become good, you have to think about every move you make there because in reality, every situation is different. Your opponents are different, your position, your cards, the boards cards, etc. Learning how to adjust is imperative in 6-max, or you'll just be another one of my fish at the table.

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I agree, but I thought I kinda said the same? Because there are so many more decisions to make, you shouldn't be thinking anymore whether you should 3bet AKo pf or not. Such that you can concentrate on everything else.

[tyler_cracker]

http://poker.wikia.com/wiki/MicroLim...2FShort-handed

[Befolder]

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Personally, I wouldn't start 6max before I

- comfortably 4table. Being able to do that shows that most situations and decisions have become obvious and natural and you don't have to think too much about them anymore. Thus, you can then concentrate on the differences with regards to FR and not on the basic procedures of poker in general.

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Multitabling pretty much has nothing to do w/ how you'll do at 6max. I agree w/ Snitch, if I'm remembering who disagreed w/ you.

An argument could be made that the more you multi-table, the less you are readying yourself for 6M, because the things you need to excel at 6M are getting and using reads, something that loses focus when multi-tabling.

As far as the differences betwen FR and 6M. The game is the same, you are just forced to be in steal, blind defend and HU situations much more often than an FR table.

[Str8Fish]

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I agree w/ Snitch, if I'm remembering who disagreed w/ you.

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I find this very insulting.

[Befolder]

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I agree w/ Snitch, if I'm remembering who disagreed w/ you.

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I find this very insulting.

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Hey, at least I got that it started w/ an "S."
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