Q&A #68: Adjusting From Full-Ring to 6-Max Limit Hold’em

Ed,
thanks a lot for excellent advice!
It’s also what I was looking for asking about loose shorthanded games at the forum.
What I could not get was the loosening from BB with overall playing tighter.
Thanks!
Pawel

Also remember that while “loose full ring game” implies a nice relaxing opportunity to draw and win huge pots with monsters, “loose short handed game” implies high stress, gray hair and huge variance. That is, loose player isn’t necessarily a bad player in short handed, especially when aggressive. A weak-tight player very easily gets crushed by a relentless LAG. You can’t just wait for monster hands.

Very typical situation is when you raise preflop with AKo and the (LAG) BB calls, you flop air (say, two-suited T73), BB checks, you bet and BB check-raises. If you’re used to predictable full ring players, you would often have to fold this. You can’t do that in aggressive short handed games.

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