[ohnonotthat]

Are they really terrible [players] or are they really terrible 6-max players ?

I don't play alot of 6-max but my limited contact with these games has me thinking it's likely the latter.

There is alot of useful material in print aimed toward ring games but very little aimed toward short-handed play.

The situation reminds me of the late 80s/early 90s when if you blinked you missed the legalization of poker in yet another state, and where it was already allowed it seemed to suddenly explode in popularity.

While all games are usually good in a new location, Omaha games were often too good to be true and holdem games were typically far better than stud.

Make no mistake, there were plenty of bad stud players and more than a few very bad stud players but the majority seemed to play in something close to a lucid manner; holdem tables typically featured at least 2 or 3 players that would call (or even overcall) with a hand that could not beat the board and omaha games would routinely see cries of "full house" when there was no pair on board.

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Ah, those were the days. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]