3/6 5 max very beatable

This is a typical hand.


Game #122540961 - $3/$6 Hold'em - 2001/10/27-22:29:10 (CST)

Table "Malo (5 max)" (real money) -- Seat 3 is the button

Seat 1: tommygun92 ($249.50 in chips)

Seat 2: tajmirage ($374.75 in chips)

Seat 3: FrankieBllz ($181 in chips)

Seat 4: Mattingly ($190 in chips)

Seat 5: dougincs ($17 in chips)

Mattingly: Post Small Blind ($1)

dougincs: Post Big Blind ($3)

tommygun92: Sit out

Dealing...

Dealt to FrankieBllz [ Ks ]

Dealt to FrankieBllz [ Qd ]

tajmirage: Call ($3)

FrankieBllz: Call ($3)

Mattingly: Raise ($5)

dougincs: Call ($3)

tajmirage: Call ($3)

FrankieBllz: Call ($3)

*** FLOP *** : [ 6c 5d 5h ]

Mattingly: Bet ($3)

dougincs: Fold

tajmirage: Call ($3)

FrankieBllz: Call ($3)

*** TURN *** : [ 6c 5d 5h ] [ 9c ]

Mattingly: Bet ($6)

tajmirage: Call ($6)

FrankieBllz: Fold

*** RIVER *** : [ 6c 5d 5h 9c ] [ Jc ]

Mattingly: Check

tajmirage: Check

*** SUMMARY ***

Pot: $43 | Rake: $2

Board: [ 6c 5d 5h 9c Jc ]

tommygun92 didn't bet

tajmirage bet $15, collected $43, net +$28 (showed hand) [ Jd 9s ]

(two pair, jacks and nines)

FrankieBllz lost $9 (folded) [ Ks Qd ] (a pair of fives)

Mattingly lost $15 (showed hand) [ Tc Ts ] (two pair, tens and fives)

dougincs lost $6 (folded)

I wonder if any professional 3/6 5 max players might indulge me and let me know how much one can expect to win at 3/6 once they have "mastered" the game. 5 BBs/hour to a very good player? I'm so up and down at 3/6 it's sickening...probably a -1SB/hour average. But I've always felt there was money to be made at 5 person if you could handle the swings...big swings.


Mojay

yeah i think you could average 3 BBs an hour in the long haul at 3-6 5 handed pp if you play very well, but you need a bankroll of about $10000000 to withstand the brutal swings.


or you could just go find a decent 15-30 game somewhere in real life and make much more without anywhere near that sort of variance.


ho hum.