thinking about the past, present and future... 3/6?

[RiverTheNuts]

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So I've been toying with an idea I've had for awhile now, and I finally feel its time to suggest it. There's all these posts of guys who are making good money at the 2/4 games. If you do this over a significant amount of time you should be able to put together a very inflated bankroll and be quite overrolled. At the same time everyone is talking about how bad the 3/6 game is. So why not jump straight from 2/4 to 5/10 6 max if you have the roll for it? I think this is a doable move for a good player and would hopefully greatly improve a players game.

Crazy or brilliant?

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I think this is doable, however, I would mix a couple 2/4 tables with some 1/2 6 max and some 3/6 tables, even if it is slightly -EV so that you dont get bombed for 100 BB when you move up to 5/10 6 max...

I am the worst 6 max player alive, so maybe this only applies to me, but Im trying to help

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I assume anyone playing 2/4 has already played and crushed 1/2 6 max. If not it might be time to take this valuable little detour.

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Ive never learned to play 6 max, everytime I dab in it I get schooled... I am currently at 7 BB/100 at 2/4 over my last 100,000

[Nick C]

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My impressions of 2/4 are a few months old at this point, but here are some of the differences I've noticed after moving to 3/6:

The percentage of tight players at the table goes up.

Blind stealing/defense becomes a bigger part of the game.

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This is definitely one of my weakest parts of the game, I think. I feel like I really suck at blind defense. I do alright from the stealing standpoint, but defending and playing out of position I feel I'm not too good at. I don't mean to say I turn into a total fish, but I just don't feel very confident in it. Do you, or anyone else, have suggestions of either good posts that deal with this at length in a very generalizeable manner, or good chapters in books?

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I don't think blind defense is really one of my strengths either. It's the area of my game I'm most anxious to improve.

Anyway, though, the short-handed section of HPFAP is one source I've drawn from that's helped me. (Edit: HPFAP mostly concentrates on situations where the stealer is very aggressive, though, and will steal with a very wide range of hands, which won't always be the case at your 3/6 tables.) StellarWind's posts on the subject have also helped me. He mostly posts in the Heads-up & Short-handed Forum now, and, actually, I think the HUSH Forum is a good place in general to find some posts that deal with blind defense.

[crunchy1]

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My impressions of 2/4 are a few months old at this point, but here are some of the differences I've noticed after moving to 3/6:
The percentage of tight players at the table goes up.
Blind stealing/defense becomes a bigger part of the game.
The pots are less multiway in general, and people are better at finding folds. Getting paid off well with your big hands becomes more difficult. (As a result, I do more semi-bluffing and bluffing at 3/6 than I did at 2/4.)
The game can be trappy. People will sometimes wait until the river to raise you. And, unfortunately, in a heads-up pot against me, this really isn't such a bad strategy. (Disclaimer: I thought this was a strategy that players started employing more frequently at 3/6, but Crunchy and Grease have said that they've seen a lot of slowplaying until the river lately at 2/4 as well. So maybe it's just a Small Stakes trend.)
In my recent experience, the 3/6 LAGs pay more attention than their 2/4 counterparts and will change speeds and make some adjustments, after people start adjusting to them.
Anyway, I do think 3/6 is significantly more difficult than 2/4. But it's not like I suddenly felt like one of the fish at the table when I moved up. And there are times when I find a really good 3/6 table. But there aren't as many of those as there are at 2/4.
In any event, it sounds like you have the bankroll, and it also sounds like you've been very successful at 2/4. If you want to give 3/6 a try, I think you should go ahead.

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Am I going berzerk-o or is this like a total cut-and-paste of a reply from a similiar thread a couple days ago?!?

[Nick C]

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Am I going berzerk-o or is this like a total cut-and-paste of a reply from a similiar thread a couple days ago?!?

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It's not a cut-and-paste (well, I didn't use the cut-and-paste functions, anyway), but it is true that my impressions of 3/6 haven't changed much over the last couple of days.

[MEbenhoe]

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Ive never learned to play 6 max, everytime I dab in it I get schooled... I am currently at 7 BB/100 at 2/4 over my last 100,000

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Go now. Play 1/2 6 max. Learn fast, go back and kill higher limits. btw, 7 bb/100 over 100,000 hands is ridiculous. i hope you understand that theres no way that is sustainable.