Short-Handed

[bluewilde]

During the forum game the other night I was surprised when AJ was limped UTG 6 or 7-handed. I asked about it and Durron explained that 6-handed is significantly different from 9-handed. I was wondering if anyone might expand on this. Usually my SNG play is defined by the blinds, I go from folding a whole lot to pushing a whole lot and don't find myself playing poker inbetween. But, in my home game, we usually start 6 or 8-handed with fairly small blinds (that each person starts with 20BB and accelerate at a rate of "uh...every 2 people out we double" we'll ignore, they won't listen to my suggested improvements [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]).

Aight forget my home game, let's take this in the context of our forum game when there are 2/3 tables with 5-7 players each. What hands should I be adding UTG? AJ seems to be clear, what about AT/A9s (I assume we don't go lower). KQ, KJ, QJ, JT? What about when it's folded to me on the button (rare occurence)? Is it ok to speculate with 89s/78s? Do you still play mid-low pairs for set value 7-handed, or is that more specific to Party's accelerated blinds. Hmmm...this is sounding too general. My bad, any reading material you all could direct me towards? Or do you have some specific recomendations?

[Quercus]

For shorthand, a good approximation is to think of it as full ring but with the first X people folding. What hands would you open with in MP if the first three people folded to you?

What hands would you open with on the CO if the first 7 people folded?

The HUSH forum has a lot of good stuff about preflop standards, though its mostly for limit (the hands aren't a bad approximation though).