6-max VS Full Ring

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As an amateur, I thought 6-max or full ring games were all-in-all, generally, the same thing. I thought these two different types of tables had only very slight differences and it's so slight that it doesn't really matter where you play. I still, in general, think this to be true. Then again, like I said before, I'm an amateur (for now :P). I have had a very brief discussion with a friend of mine who also is a regular at 2p2 who plays mid/high stakes and told me he ONLY plays 6-max. He couldn't really give me a response as to why because he was busy. I shall ask him later, but for the mean time, I would like to ask you fellow 2p2ers. What are your preferences, and most importantly, WHY do you play there?

Since my friend (who is doing very well profitably in poker) only plays 6-max, I'm going to just assume that 6-max is best in any regards (who knows, maybe some of you will convince me other-wise). But for the mean time, I'm going to try and defend 6-max. My thoughts on the benefits of 6-max is that you can generally seem to play LAG more successfully. Although in some regards TAG is very necessary, I believe in order to be a top-notch poker player, you need to change up your game instead of being a straight-forward TAG player (or a straight-forward LAG). This means steal the blinds OTB with cards garbage as A6o if the table seems to allow you to do so. I find that in full-ring games, people generally call more often to a blind-steal raise simply b/c there are more chances of people getting a worthy enough hole cards to call a raise due to the fact that there are more cards being distributed. This makes it particularly annoying because when you raise, you're goal is to generally isolate players. When you raise and there comes 3 callers on the flop, it makes it a headache to play post-flop because there are too many hand ranges to play against. Even if you hit TPTK on the flop on a full-ring game, it seems it's not as nearly as good if you were playing a 6-max game simply because you most likely would have isolated a lot more players preflop in a 6-max than a full ring.

Of course, those are only a very few examples that I put onto the table of this post and, yes, I am being generally, quite general. But the more I just typed, the more I seem to be convinced that 6-max seems to be a better table to be profitable at online poker. But I would like to hear your thoughts and passions about this. Go nuts. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]